A woman's right to reduce the number of women
Silly me, writes Peter Rhodes. I assumed that feminists would be outraged at the revelation that foetuses are being routinely aborted in UK clinics on the grounds that they are female and regarded as second-class citizens in some cultural groups.
Silly me, writes Peter Rhodes. I assumed that feminists would be outraged at the revelation that foetuses are being routinely aborted in UK clinics on the grounds that they are female and regarded as second-class citizens in some cultural groups.
Apparently not.
On The Moral Maze (Radio 4), a succession of wimmin explained why, although they personally disapproved of the genocide of little girls (wow, thank goodness for that), the woman's right to choose outweighed all other considerations - even if that "choice" was based on threats and bullying by members of a community which seems to be living in the 12th century.
I can remember the campaign for abortions back in the 1960s when the war cry was "every child a wanted child." I wonder how many of those campaigners expected the feminists of the 21st century to be defending a woman's right to wipe out a generation of women.
