When Abortion Becomes a Sacrament
This
week, amid widespread Democratic tumult regarding the selection of a
replacement for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, alleged
comedian Michelle Wolf paid tribute to the most important facet of
American life: abortion.
On her Netflix show on Sunday, Wolf dressed
up in red, white and blue, and shrieked into the camera, "God
bless abortions, and God bless America!" She explained:
"Women,
if you need an abortion, get one! If you want an abortion, get one!
... And women, don't forget: You have the power to give life and men
will try to control that. Don't let them!"
Along
with that inane outburst, she justified abortion itself. "Look,"
she stated, "access to abortion is good and important. Some
people say abortion is killing a baby. It's not. It's stopping a baby
from happening."
Well,
some people say Michelle Wolf is killing comedy. She's not. She's
stopping comedy from happening.
But
more importantly, a ground shift has taken place in how Democrats
think about abortion. Back in 2005, I wrote that the Democratic
"safe, legal and rare"
formulation regarding abortion was
logically and morally untenable:
If Democrats wanted abortion to be
rare thanks to its inherent immorality, there was no reason for it to
be legal. Democrats have finally come around:
They're now "shouting"
their abortions, proclaiming them from the rooftops, suggesting that
there is a moral good achieved
by abortion.
Thus,
Lena Dunham said just two years ago, "I still haven't had an
abortion, but I wish I had." Thus, Chelsea Handler, who has had
two abortions, explained in the pages of Playboy, "I don't ever
look back and think, 'God, I wish I'd had that baby.'"
Her
article was accompanied by a picture of a woman's hand with a raised
middle finger with a pink bow around it; attached to the bow is a
small card that reads, "It's an abortion!"
Yes,
abortion is now a signifier that you refuse to be ruled by the
patriarchy. Avoidance of pregnancy may be a wise life choice,
according to third-wave feminists, preventing women from being sucked
into the grinding maw of maternal life.
But abortion is something
even better: a signal that you just don't care about the system. The
system demands that if you're pregnant with a child, you make your
own concerns secondary; the system must be fought.
Gloria
Steinem once remarked,
"If men could get pregnant, abortion
would be a sacrament."
But modern-day feminists have determined
that abortion is a
sacrament specifically because women
can get pregnant:
Showing that control over your body even extends to
the killing of your unborn child is a way of standing up against
patriarchal concerns with women as the source of future generations.
For
Michelle Wolf, abortion isn't just another decision.
It's a giant
middle finger to the moral establishment. And those who would fight
abortion are desacralizing the mysterious holiness of a ritual that
reinforces women's control.
No wonder Wolf thinks God blesses
abortion; abortion is her god.
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2018/07/11/when-abortion-becomes-a-sacrament-n2499147?
My comments: Abortion is a Pagan Sacrament for the godless, Socialist, Secular Humanist, Religion of the LEFT.
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