5 Reasons Why Abortion Never Empowers Women (+video)

Photo Credit: Matt Walsh BlogThe official Obvious Child Tumblr page calls it a movie about ‘self discovery and empowerment.’ Many folks in media and the blogosphere have said similar things, including Sarah Seltzer from RH Reality Check. She attempts to explain it this way:

“[Abortion is] empowering in the sense that the very act of making a decision about our future, even if in desperation, gives us control”.

Wait. Isn’t EVERY decision a decision about the future? You can’t make a decision about the past, can you? I’m so confused.

Here now is the next stage in the abortion movement. It’s not enough to win in the courts and the Congress, they want to win in American’s heart and soul. It’s not enough for abortion to be legal, it needs to be loved. That’s why these kinds of movies exist, to promote abortion as something positive, affirming, constructive, empowering.

The empowering abortion. A work of fiction, indeed, but one marketed cleverly enough to dupe millions of people.

I thought about this empowerment notion for a while, and I think I identified a flaw in it. Actually, I identified five…