The Cult of Abortion Under Biden
Its celebration is a defining mark of his presidency.
by George Neumayr
October 2, 2021, 10:02 PM
One of Bill Clinton’s slippery slogans in the 1990s was that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” But the Left never cared for the ambivalence about abortion that that slogan conveyed.
To counter that ambivalence, Planned Parenthood launched a campaign to celebrate abortion straightforwardly. It hawked T-shirts that said, “I had an abortion.” Abortion advocates such as Barbara Ehrenreich started writing openly about their own abortions. “You can blame a lot of folks, from media bigwigs to bishops, if we lose our reproductive rights, but it’s the women who shrink from acknowledging their own abortions who really irk me,” she wrote.
Alexander Sanger, the grandson of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, urged feminists to drop any conflicted rhetoric about abortion and describe the unborn child as “not just an innocent life.” He wrote, “While it is the epitome of human destiny and the greatest potential joy that humanity can create, it is also a liability, a threat, and a danger to the mother and to the other members of the family. In order to survive, humanity has necessarily taken pre-born life to preserve other life all throughout its evolutionary history.”
Merle Hoffman, a self-described “abortion provider,” told Salon that “abortion is as American as apple pie” and cast her own abortion in heroic terms: “With my choice I was fighting for the right of all women to define abortion as an act of love: love for the family one already has, and just as important, love for oneself. I was fighting to reclaim abortion as a mother’s act. It was an act of solidarity as significant as any other I had committed.”
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