Wednesday, January 07, 2004
Sed Contra: Prejudice Against Big Families
"Women in other villiages who objected to having their tubes tied surgically, often in a literal barnyard atmosphere, were called names and berated for their reluctance, called dogs and cats and no better than animals, sometimes by the very medical staff which were operating on sometimes 30 of them in a single day.
And that was only surgery. The drive to make sure people don't have children has involved the U.S. funding women being sterilized by acid burns in Haiti as well. Information about all of this can be found here.
It's hard to puzzle out these attitudes. Dominico asks: Can you imagine walking up to a stranger in a store and telling her that she's had too many kids? These are the same people, by the way, who will fight you tooth and nail to claim that a woman has a right to choose. Choose what? Evidently, they don't have the right to choose life. In their minds, there is only one choice, which isn't a choice at all, and that's abortion."
And that was only surgery. The drive to make sure people don't have children has involved the U.S. funding women being sterilized by acid burns in Haiti as well. Information about all of this can be found here.
It's hard to puzzle out these attitudes. Dominico asks: Can you imagine walking up to a stranger in a store and telling her that she's had too many kids? These are the same people, by the way, who will fight you tooth and nail to claim that a woman has a right to choose. Choose what? Evidently, they don't have the right to choose life. In their minds, there is only one choice, which isn't a choice at all, and that's abortion."