
Jenny EriksonI've been in Washington, D.C., this week to attend Smart Girl Summit, the annual conference of Smart Girl Politics. Over 200 women from around the country have come to the capitol to attend training classes, listen to inspiring speakers like Liz Cheney and Michele Bachmann, and enjoy the general camaraderie of conservative sisterhood.
We also apparently "broke" an Emily's List intern.
Intern Jamie was reporting faithfully for the liberal website when she walked into a pro-life discussion panel. She was shocked and horrified that one of the speakers referred to the desire to kill babies as freakish.
That's right, folks, the undercover leftist reporter got her panties in a twist because a speaker at the conservative conference she was infiltrating said something that she took offense to. Piece of advice for Intern Jamie: Grow a pair or get out of journalism.
Some chick named Jess (who apparently didn't succumb to the vapors upon mention that abortion ends a human life) wrote about Intern Jamie's horrifying experience at the Summit:
So, smart girls, I have a question for you. Were there any of you in the audience who cringed a little when panelist and congressional candidate Princella Smith said that? Any of you who made the choice to wait a while before having children and never thought that made you a freak of a woman? Any of you who went to an Ivy League school and never thought that meant someone would think you were somehow un-feminine?
Listen up liberals, because I am sick to death of saying it. We conservatives don't believe it's freakish and against the laws of nature to decide not to have children, to attend an Ivy League school, or to have a career. Every life is different and unique and we embrace that and celebrate it.
What is against the laws of nature? For a woman to kill her unborn child for no reason other than being pregnant is inconvenient.
Reproductive freedom and choice has nothing to with abortion. No one is forcing anyone else to get pregnant. I'm not sure if women are aware of this or not, but babies come from having sex. Don't want to get pregnant? Don't have sex. We're not animals, incapable of controlling our carnal impulses.
Conservatives believe in women -- their strength, ingenuity, and resourcefulness. Conservatives will help you face the unexpected challenge of pregnancy head on, through crisis pregnancy centers, countless churches and community centers, and adoption agencies. Conservatives have no doubt that women can accomplish anything, even getting through an unplanned pregnancy.
Stop pretending that the legal right to kill our unborn children is the gender equality that Susan B. Anthony was fighting for. Abortion has nothing to do with feminism and everything to do with advancing a liberal agenda that doesn't believe in women and their extraordinary abilities or the strength of their spirits.
Princella Smith is right. Liberal feminism, the idea that women are incapable of overcoming challenges, is in truth, a freak of nature.
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Early feminists actually opposed abortion. Emily Cady Stanton wrote, "When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit." Alice Paul, author of the original Equal Rights Amendment, once said, "Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women." And Susan B. Anthony herself wrote, 'All the articles on this subject that I have read have been from men. They denounce women as alone guilty, and never include man in any plans for the remedy."
michelle bachmann? smart girl?
thanks for the sidesplitting oxymoron.
well put. i agree. i've always said if you don't want to get pregnant don't have sex. i understand some women are raped. i have sympathy for them but that doesn't mean a child should die. women can still give the baby up for adoption.
WHAT?!?!?
A woman who is raped should NOT have to carry her attacker's baby to term....period. THAT is her choice.
Of course here comes the rape argument and the physical health of the mother argument as well. This is not about that. She didn't say anything about rape. This is about women who get an abortion because it's inconvenient and use it disgustingly as a method of birth control. Women who don't think they can handle an unplanned pregnancy and have been brainwashed to believe it is their RIGHT to murder their unborn baby.
Jenny, thank you for your unapologetic OPed. You are truly a breath of fresh air, and what keeps me coming back to the stir after so many pieces of pro-choice BS on this site. Thank you thank you thank you!
Especially for women who have more difficult pregnancies, even average pregnancies, their entire live can go down the drain if they carry a pregnancy to term, even to give it up for adoption.
I literally couldn't function the first 14 weeks or so of my last pregnancy, and the final 5 days, I could barely get up off the couch. If I were the sole breadwinner or even in a situation where my income was relied upon, there is absolutely no way I could have kept a job and my livelihood while pregnant.
Just something to consider when you tell a woman she HAS to stay pregnant if she ends up that way by accident or via attack, eh?