Abortion As ‘The Lesser Evil”
A few days later, I still cannot believe what I read last week. Columnist Antonia Senior wrote a piece for The Times of London in favor of killing human beings in order to further the Feminist cause. I am not kidding. This is what she wrote. You might think it a joke or a hoax, but it’s not. The article appeared in a column in a major newspaper and is meant to be taken seriously.
Here’s a thumbnail sketch of her argument. As a pro-choice feminist, Senior says she had always believed that an unborn child was not a life but a potential life. That was her belief until she finally had her own child. After giving birth to her own little girl, her view of the personhood of the unborn changed. In her own words:
“What seems increasingly clear to me is that, in the absence of an objective definition, a foetus is a life by any subjective measure. My daughter was formed at conception, and all the barely understood alchemy that turned the happy accident of that particular sperm meeting that particular egg into my darling, personality-packed toddler took place at that moment. She is so unmistakably herself, her own person — forged in my womb, not by my mothering.
“Any other conclusion is a convenient lie that we on the pro-choice side of the debate tell ourselves to make us feel better about the action of taking a life. That little seahorse shape floating in a willing womb is a growing miracle of life. In a resentful womb it is not a life, but a foetus — and thus killable.”
Astonishingly, even though she concedes that an unborn baby is a human life, she says that killing a baby is sometimes the lesser of two evils. Feminism’s commitment to reproductive freedom and “fertility control” is more important than an unborn baby’s life. It would be more evil to surrender Feminism than to kill a human life. In her own words:
“The answer lies in choosing the lesser evil. The nearly 200,000 aborted babies in the UK each year are the lesser evil, no matter how you define life, or death, for that matter. If you are willing to die for a cause, you must be prepared to kill for it, too.”
If you don’t think that this is the logical consequence of 3rd wave Feminist ideology, then you don’t understand Feminism. Such Feminists on both sides of the pond believe that a woman’s “right to choose” is more important than another person’s right to life. This is the logic of death, and it is why over 50 million unborn humans have been legally killed in America since 1973.
Columnist Antonia Senior concedes that an unborn baby at any stage of development is a human life in her article “Yes, Abortion is Killing. But it’s the Lesser Evil” that appeared in the June 30, 2010 edition of The Times (London). But she then continues to contend that feminism is more important than life, and that, when necessary, women must be willing to kill for the feminist cause even as they are willing to die for it.
You can download and read Senior’s article here.
Dr. Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, addressed this article in his Thursday, July 1, 2010 blog. Please take a few moments to read his blog post. You can read it here.
