Is the pro-choice movement weakening?

Posted on January 5, 2013 by elizabeth

TIME magazine thinks so. As a pro-life feminist, this is encouraging news to me. I’m also super proud of the young women and men who have worked hard to bring about the changing attitude toward on-demand abortion. The following video explains this interesting cultural shift. What do you think? Is the pro-choice movement weakening? And, if so, why?

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  • Brigidpaige

    I could get 100% behind a “pro life” movement that would quit focusing on making abortion illegal. People have abortions anyway. If we nurture babies and their mothers women will have fewer abortions. We need a Pro-mother-pro-baby-pro-family movement, not the current pro-patriarchy one that is tied up in a whole lot of political garbage. http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/111368/the-rise-diy-abortions

    • Anonymous

      Pro-mother, pro-baby, pro-family movement! YES YES YES. Love the mother, take care of the mother, help the mother and you will eliminate the need for abortion. Our society DOES NOT value family; insofar as the corporate driven culture is stingy about maternity leave, paternity leave, flexible hours for women, on-site child care, etc. Thanks for this, Brigid.

      • http://www.facebook.com/hannah.thomas.319 Hannah Thomas

        I don’t know anyone that likes abortion, but back alley ones I hate worse. Then I have areas that I struggle with personally, and I realize other’s don’t. That’s okay with me – lets debate! Doesn’t need to be winners or losers though. I can appreciate both sides. I don’t appreciate being described as a monster because I struggle with it. No doubt I can’t be the only one, and can’t get behind ‘pro-life’ due to that aspect.

        • KatR

          This is one of the reasons (and it’s a long story) why I stopped using the pro life label. Women’s lives matter too. Women have a right to life, “even” women who get abortions.

        • Madgebaby

          We live in a very conservative political district and I see cars with this constellation of bumper stickers: religious school (with the mascot “crusaders”) a really patronizing and simplistic anti abortion one, and one for a politician that campaigned to “eliminate” funding for all (ALL: USDA, FDA, Dept of ED, etc.) federal programs. “Pro life” needs to work on their marketing….

    • KatR

      THIS RIGHT HERE. I get so enraged at politicians who want to outlaw abortion, but who also seem to be on some mission from God to make life hell on pregnant women, mothers and children who aren’t wealthy.

      • madgebaby

        And who clearly don’t understand anything about
        trauma, abuse, poverty, or misogyny. Agreed

    • Susanne

      This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Should murder not be illegal because some people will murder anyway? Maybe if we just have lots of programs to help prevent people to resorting to murder then there will be less murders? That wouldn’t fly. I am totally for pro-family policies (adoption and crisis pregnancy assistance), Some women will gladly not abort if they see that there is help, but some are going to abort anyway. Pro-life is about saving ALL lives. Killing people (even the ones we can’t see) should always be illegal in a civilized society. The mother’s autonomy does not trump a life.

      • Verity3

        What if working to make abortion safe, rare, and legal results in fewer abortions?

  • http://www.lara-thinkingoutloud.blogspot.com/ Lara

    Yay for more nuanced!!! Yes, Yes, Yes to a movement that aims at reducing the need (or perceived need) for abortion instead of trying to make it illegal. Yay for people realizing that these little lives have value. Yay that people on the other side are realizing that the women that carry these babies have equal value. Yay for the extremes on both sides going away.
    The one thing I still long for is that my friends who have had abortions would stop being called “murderers”. I know their stories. I hurt for them.

    • http://www.facebook.com/hannah.thomas.319 Hannah Thomas

      Yes, I agree. Throwing out the murderer label certainly doesn’t help. A Murderer in jail most Christians would tell you that you must forgive, but not in this circumstance. They should be ashamed of themselves.

      I think of a young girl that you hear about in the news on occasion that is a preteen that got raped. Neither giving birth nor the Abortion is going to be without consequences for her. It cuts to close to the quick for me to judge that path, and it amazes me to see others NOT see the tragedy no matter what path is taken. All they see is an opportunity for their agenda. Makes me want to vomit right in their lap.

  • Susanne

    I wish they would make adoption easier. It is very hard to adopt babies in the US. My BIL and his wife were not able to conceive. They were able to get two infants within a couple of years. The social worker who worked with them said she had never in her 20 years seen a couple able to adopt two infants…Why is that? It is horrible to think that there are more childless couples out there who long for a baby and those babies are being aborted. Killing should never be legal. Period.

  • me

    But here’s the real deal: current science suggests that fetuses do not have consciousness or feel pain before about week 18. Anything after that is hurting a young organism, worse than drowning a puppy. But anything before that is as much murder as killing a tumor. Unless, that is, you have a RELIGIOUS BELIEF that saves life begins at conception. It’s fine to believe that. However, basing a law on that religious belief– like, abortion before 18 weeks should be banned– is simply unconstitutional.