A former British soldier, Adam Smith-Connor, was last week convicted of silently praying for the soul of his aborted child outside an abortion clinic in Bournemouth and ordered to pay legal costs of £9,000. Private prayer in public in Britain can now be a criminal offence, if it in any sense interferes with what are now called “reproductive rights”.
When language fails, truth duly follows. Whether or not you approve of abortion, it is not a “reproductive right” but an “anti-reproductive right”, namely the killing of a viable foetus. In New York, when Governor Cuomo signed the law permitting the full-term abortion of babies of nine months’ gestation within the womb (usually by uterine beheading), the roomful of women exploded in applause, after which he ordered the One World Trade Center to be illuminated with pink floodlights in celebration. So much for the belief that women are a “kinder” sex.
Mankind has been telling itself a great many lies about human nature since the great sexual revolution of the 1960s. These falsehoods are based on individual human rights, which if regarded separately from our existential duties as a species, will naturally confer an all-embracing “equality” on women. We all know (but usually without admitting it) how spurious that “equality” is in practice: nobody demands 50/50 gender-equality for sewerage-workers, plumbers, deep-sea welders or steeplejacks. Ukraine allowed its women to flee the war while compelling all men to stay, without a word of complaint from the world’s feminists.