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Shots fired in War on Women – to punish one for choosing life

If the absurdity of the “War on Women” narrative wasn’t already abundantly clear, the following story from LifeSiteNews illustrates it nicely:

A 24-year-old man tried to shoot his ex-girlfriend in the face after she refused to get an abortion, according to police in northern Pennsylvania.

Allentown police say 24-year-old Jashua Kinch-Rodriguez had an argument with his ex-girlfriend, Jessenia Rosario, in a car outside her apartment last Friday night. Things became heated when she refused to have an abortion.

Officers say Kinch-Rodriguez began to punch her in the stomach and groin area before slamming the car door on her legs and threatening her life.

Court documents state when she went upstairs to her apartment, her ex-boyfriend got a handgun and shot into the dwelling, narrowly missing her and the four people staying there at the time.

Gee, for a war that’s been going on all this time, you’d think actual violence would have shown up sooner. But when somebody finally picks up a weapon against a woman, he turns out to be pro-abortion! Who knew?

Yes, I know pro-choicers don’t mean the “war” in “War on Women” literally. But the story still illustrates how their frenzied victim-mongering has lost any semblance of perspective. This is what harming and controlling women really look like – not protecting the lives of unborn children (of both sexes), not requiring abortion-seekers to inform themselves before killing their offspring, not letting individuals and businesses decide for themselves whether they want to provide somebody else’s birth control, and not the occasional insult or misstatement that’s universally denounced and apologized for in the blink of an eye.

Indeed, the hyperbole has gotten so bad that at least one pro-choice Democrat can’t stomach it anymore. Reacting to Sandra Fluke’s Democratic National Convention speech, commentator Kirsten Powers tweeted that she “found this speech so offensive as a woman. The idea that women are silenced victims”:

The US is one of the best countries in the world to be born in if you are a woman. I thank God that i was born here […] Sandra Fluke should visit Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and then see how she feels about how the US treats women[.]

The Pennsylvania case also illustrates something we’ve discussed before: that abortion more naturally lends itself to being a tool of misogyny rather than an escape hatch from it. Abusive boyfriends and husbands aren’t any more likely to value their unborn children than they are to value their women, and for those who don’t want the hassle of fatherhood, abortion is naturally where such men would turn.

It does women no good to have the self-appointed arbiters of feminism defining war down by demonizing legitimate policy disagreements instead of focusing on misogyny’s real perpetrators and casualties.

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  • peach

    That’s why it’s called pro-choice. We want the woman to choose what is right for her and her body. That crazy man took away her choice and no way in Hell will you see anyone defending him.
    “Abusive boyfriends and husbands aren’t any more likely to value their
    unborn children than they are to value their women, and for those who
    don’t want the hassle of fatherhood, abortion is naturally where such
    men would turn.” These are the type of men that are going to abuse and potentially try to force abortion on women whether or not abortion is legal. They’re sick and horrible people and the law isn’t going to change that. The law also says you can’t beat your wife/girlfriend but that doesn’t stop them. These men are not pro-choice, they’re pro being an asshole.

    • http://twitter.com/CalFreiburger Calvin Freiburger

      Fair enough, but my point stands: it’s not a coincidence that people who don’t value women don’t value unborn life either. Both moral failings are rooted in a heartless, narcissism that places self-consideration and self-gratification above consideration of others and of basic decency.

      Also, that’s not even the major point. The key takeaway here is that it’s incredibly insulting toward people like Jessenia Rosario for pro-aborts to use rhetoric implying that what she went through is even in the same moral ballpark as standard pro-life views.

  • http://twitter.com/Astraspider Astraspider

    Mr. Rodriguez has more in common with the pro-life movement than you might be willing to admit: both want to define for women how they manage their fertility.

    • http://twitter.com/CalFreiburger Calvin Freiburger

      Y’know, this is almost enough to make someone wonder if you’re secretly a pro-lifer masquerading as a pro-abortion troll just to make the pro-choice side look bad. There’s just no way you could possibly believe crap like this, or expect anyone to take it seriously.

      • http://twitter.com/Astraspider Astraspider

        I’m making the very same argument peach is making, just making it more crudely. But when you trot out such a crude straw man as Mr. Rodriguez, it deserves crudeness in response.

        • http://twitter.com/CalFreiburger Calvin Freiburger

          1.) You know full well that “manage their fertility” is Orwellian rhetorical deceit at its worst.

          2.) As I recall, you have a habit of misidentifying things as straw-man arguments. Nowhere did I suggest that your side condones coercing women into abortion or violence against women who choose life. My actual argument was entirely different. But, since you opened the comparison door, you’d do well to reflect on the fact that it’s not my side who advocates a fundamental right to inflict violence on someone…

          • Richard

            Because compulsory child-birth is a loving gift.

  • Richard

    Since January 2011, the Republican-controlled House has voted 55 times to undermine women’s health, roll back women’s rights, and defund programs and institutions that provide health care and support for women.

    House Republicans have voted to strip women of access to preventive health care and contraception, to eliminate federal support for reproductive and maternal care services, to cut funds for important nutrition programs for pregnant women, nursing mothers, and families, and to allow insurers to discriminate against women and charge them more than men for health insurance policies. They have voted against passing, improving, and funding important programs like the Violence Against Women Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act.

    They have voted to end the basic guarantees that the Medicare and Medicaid programs provide to low-income women or women who are seniors. They have voted to increase the exposure of pregnant women and women of childbearing age to dangerous toxic chemicals. And they have voted numerous times to restrict women’s access to legal abortions.

    http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/House%20Anti-Women%20Votes%20Report%209.5.12_0.pdf

    • http://twitter.com/CalFreiburger Calvin Freiburger

      I see now you’ve transitioned to pushing Democratic Party propaganda. I hope someday you realize it’s more fruitful to research accusations and policy disputes for yourself rather than simply peddling lists of caricatures.

      • Richard

        Republicans’ voting record in congress w.r.t. women =/= “lists of caricatures” but rather = Exhibit A, Republican War on Women.

        • http://twitter.com/CalFreiburger Calvin Freiburger

          Translation: you’re too lazy or partisan to actually educate yourself about whether a partisan document from one party, designed to harm the opposing party, has accurately described and explained the votes it’s talking about. Pitiful.

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  • SomePeople

    I wonder why those who are pro-abortion think it’s some choice for women that happens behind closed doors and does not impact society. Pushing abortion agenda on society, pushing that women need to be corrected by birth control, and pushing that life no longer matters will cause society to become less and less appreciative of life, families, and the beauty of childbirth and pregnancy. Killing babies in the womb, forcing our taxes to go toward those vile acts, and parading about pretending it’s okay because it’s a woman’s choice leads to a culture of death – leads to the poor old woman digging through the trash to properly bury babies.

    • Richard

      And an unwanted child has no impact on society? What about a woman force to give birth against her will?

      • SomePeople

        What is this “birth against her will” argument?! Biologically women deliver babies. It’s not a choice. It’s the female body and it happens to be how you’re alive today, dearest Richard. I also do not understand the “unwanted child” sob story. My goodness, I did not realize that women have the ability to see the future and know exactly what will happen to the child they’re carrying.

        • Richard

          “women deliver babies. It’s not a choice.” Well, that may have been true at some point in the past when we were clueless about where babies came from. But now we know that conception results in pregnancy results in childbirth results in babies so there are a lot of choices that a woman can make along the way to prevent the delivering of a baby.

          An unwanted child, is simply just that. Not everyone one wants a child for any number of reasons, too young, too old, too poor, too raped, too many children already, too busy, too single. The reasons vary and are personal but the point is that bearing children is a personal choice, not one that should be made by the government.

  • ProTruth2

    Abusive boyfriends and husbands aren’t any more likely to value their
    unborn children than they are to value their women, and for those who
    don’t want the hassle of fatherhood, abortion is naturally where such
    men would turn.

    According to pro-life blogger Jill Stanek, a real man hits ‘his woman’ when she does have an abortion, not when she refuses to. Ms. Stanek finds this commitment to family values ‘strangely endearing.’

    I’ve never heard a supporter of abortion rights expressing parallel admiration for a wife-batterer. If someone were to do so he or she should, of course, be roundly condemned.

    • http://twitter.com/CalFreiburger Calvin Freiburger

      Stanek certainly left herself open to such criticism with a badly worded argument, but her point is that real men don’t consider the killing of their sons or daughters a “choice,” that real men instinctively recoil in disgust at the murder of the innocent by their own parents. No matter what euphemisms or sophistry you wanna disguise abortion with, THAT is the offense she’s talking about. Heck, right in the dialogue, Kay says, “it was a son, and I had it killed.” If Kay had just told Michael that she drowned their one-year-old in the tub, most people – you included, I bet – would say that responding with a slap would be understandable (though not necessarily condonable), and definitely not in the same category as abusing one’s wife to control her.

      “I’ve never heard a supporter of abortion rights expressing parallel admiration for a wife-batterer. If someone were to do so he or she should, of course, be roundly condemned.”

      That’s all well and good, but I never claimed otherwise, and that has nothing to do with anything I wrote.

  • RealTruth

    If someone wants the REAL war on women, simply ask single moms who chose to keep their children and are trying to protect their children how they feel about the current state of our family courts. How cute for pro-aborts to parade around how much they care about a woman’s choice, but if she chooses to protect her child, the justice system fails her. Why isn’t there more upsetting aspects of those sad truths?

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