The easiest jab for abortion advocates to lob at anti-abortion campaigners is that they’re just trying to control women’s bodies. How sexist and mean.
This is why the pro-abortion side flooded the phones of Vice President Mike Pence’s office when he was still governor of Indiana, signing abortion limitations into law. They called in to report on the status of their menstrual cycles, clever, I know, because if he cared so much about women’s bodies then surely he’d want to know more.
The straw man argument is also where we get the infantile slogan “my body, my choice,” and it’s why Georgia state Rep. Dar’shun Kendrick, a Democrat, gets away with the nonsense she’s pushing.
The Georgia lawmaker tweeted Monday a satirical response to the “heartbeat bill” pending in the state Senate. It would shorten the time frame in which a woman could have an abortion to six weeks, around the time a fetal heartbeat can first be detected.
It’s an intrusive business, saving the life of a child with a beating heart, and Kendrick feels she and other Georgia women will have their rights stolen from them if the bill becomes law. This is why she came up with a “testicular bill of rights.”
Ggggooooodddd morning! Introducing my “testicular bill of rights” legislative package. You want some regulation of bodies and choice? Done! pic.twitter.com/5E8HBRSc9l
— Dar’shun Kendrick (@DarshunKendrick) March 11, 2019
“You want some regulation of bodies and choice?” she asks, to which any real pro-lifer would answer: Um, no.
Obviously, having a vasectomy or getting a prescription for Viagra is different from having an abortion. Fortunately, we have made dramatic scientific advancements in recent centuries, and we understand that sperm are not human beings. The problem with the “let’s restrict men’s freedom like women’s and see how they like it” fallacy is that abortion is not just about a woman, it’s also about a child.
Many pro-abortion activists don’t believe or understand this basic scientific idea. For them, any discussion of about the relationship between the rights of a woman and a minor she carries in her body is just too complicated or else somehow designed as a ruse. In any case, the genetic science that proves the humanity of the child is just an inconvenient fact to be ignored.
