The Real War on Women

I don't usually write posts this intense. I try to be encouraging and helpful.  Sometimes, however, one gets tired of nonsense and the truth just needs to be laid out there. Even Jesus called out the pharisees in Matthew 23 when he called them  "hypocrites and vipers".

I have heard the term “War on Women” used a lot lately. I’ve heard it used mostly concerning the abortion issue. Apparently, pro-abortionists think that those of us who are pro-life are somehow anti-woman. That’s funny considering how many of the ones fighting the battle to save the unborn are, in fact, women. But there is more to it than abortion.

I recently read a couple of articles that left me fuming. The first one was where Scout Willis and several other young, well-known women are protesting for the right to show their bare chests in public. They say it is discrimination for a man to be able to do so and not a woman. Now, I know this is absurd in every sense of the word. There is a reason why the industry of promoting nude women is so lucrative (although morally wrong). Women and men are not the same. However indecent this idea is, it is the mindset behind it that bothers me more. Here are publicly known women with more wealth than most, who could use their celebratory status and monetary means for good and this is how they use it?

If they want to fight for women's rights, why not be productive in areas that are actually important? Human trafficking is at an all-time high and the majority of these enslaved people are women and girls. The ratio of sexually abused children is 1 in 5 girls vs. 1 in 20 boys (both are way too high). Girls are purposely aborted or abandoned in China (and other countries) and put out on the streets of India like they are dogs. 90% of the millions of homeless children in India are girls. Many of these girls are then abducted and forced into awful, unmentionable labor. Because of the terrible conditions and abuse they endure, the average life expectancy of these girls is 15.(“Child Labor” via “No Longer a Slumdog”) In many countries, girls are victims of child marriages, sometimes as young as 8 and 9 years old, married off to older men. In our own country, statistically, 1 in 4 women are victims of domestic abuse. These are valid issues against women. These women and girls have real problems. Having to wear a shirt is not a problem.

Then I saw another article where Linda Rosenthal, a state assembly woman in New York, is trying to pass a law to ban having cats declawed. If this weren’t so ironic, it would be laughable. This same woman is pro-abortion, even for late-term abortions. She applauded former senator Wendy Davis of Texas for her 13 hour filibuster (which failed) to try to stop the ban on abortion after 20 weeks along with measures to make abortion clinics safer for women. (Though passed by a wide majority, the ban is being challenged by the Supreme Court) 

Ms. Rosenthal says that declawing cats is like having a limb amputated. At the same time, she’s ok with babies being dismembered in the womb. I am sure she calls herself a feminist. Why doesn’t she stand up against gender-selective abortion where the majority of these aborted babies are girls? These precious babies are not wanted and not allowed to live simply because they are girls. How much more anti-woman can you be? There are 62,500 girls aborted every day. But it’s more important that a cat not feel pain. The cat will heal and live. The baby will not.

If these women really want to be “pro-woman” and fight for women’s rights, they will begin to actually care about the issues that are suppressing women and girls, not only in this country, but world-wide. They could use their influence and wealth for worthy causes instead of for ridiculous things that don’t really matter.