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[ Friday, Feb. 1, 2002 ]

Letter to the Editor
'Pro-abortion' policies hurt women's rights

I don't know exactly what point Brian Blase was trying to get across with his article, but I just wanted to share my thoughts.

As many readers have pointed out, another error in his article was that feminism is monolithic. Sometimes he specified "radical feminists" as the object of his criticism, and perhaps that's the only group he was targeting, but other times he said simply "modern feminism," which if unintentionally ambivalent was irresponsible. If by radical feminists you meant groups such as Womyn's Concerns and the FMLA, I would agree that they are way off track and counterproductive. In fact I think they are often anti-woman. Many (probably not all) of them reject and denigrate womanhood and all its attendant implications, particularly the ability to be wife and mother, and that anti-woman trend is pinnacled in their pro-abortion stance.

There are other feminists though. There is a national organization called Feminists for Life. The previous president of Penn State's Students for Life, Miranda Dincher, who was an absolute dynamo for the pro-life cause, was also diehard feminist and saw abortion as violently anti-woman. So again I say feminism is not obsolete. Not only have anti-woman attitudes yet to be overcome, but anti-woman policies by pro-abortion institutions have yet to be abolished.

Rather than calling for and end to feminism, Blase should have called for an authentic and holistic renewal of the feminist movement.

Zeb Bartels
Pax Christ president
 



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