The Daily News reports this morning: “A Queens man—enraged because his wife refused to have an abortion—slashed her throat and then stabbed her sister in the stomach Monday night in front of a room full of children.”
Ain’t you glad that legalized abortion set women free to choose?
March 30th, 2010 | 8:50 am
If anyone hasn’t yet read it, I would recommend Richard Stith’s article “Her Choice, Her Problem,” published in FT sometime recently.
March 30th, 2010 | 12:29 pm
I am against abortion, and I want the prolife argument to be sound. That being said, I’m not sure I see the argument you’ve made here. Can you elaborate?
Are you saying that, if abortion had been illegal, this man wouldn’t have pushed for an illegal one anyway, and been equally enraged if the woman had declined?
In other words, I’m not sure how you can say that the legality of abortion had anything to do with this directly. Perhaps there is an indirect reasoning?
March 30th, 2010 | 4:39 pm
I have, with my own eyes, seen someone say of a woman, murdered because she was pregnant, that she would have been better off to have an abortion.
March 30th, 2010 | 5:59 pm
I don’t have the statistics at hand, but have read from reliable sources that being pregnant increases a woman’s chance of being murdered.
March 31st, 2010 | 12:04 pm
SK-
I’ve read the same statistic. “Murder is the leading cause of death for Pregnant women in Maryland” (March 2001 Journalof AMA) I believe this is because she becomes very vulnerable and at high risk for violence from the father of the child. Boyfriends, husbands, who are already controlling do not deal well with the perceived loss of control resulting from pregnancy.
However, I fail to see the connection between abortion rights and violence against pregnant women. What is the argument here Mr. Buttum? I think this post says a lot more about giving women the freedom and security to make their own decisions than it does about limiting their options.
March 31st, 2010 | 9:57 pm
This sad case is an example that many abortions are not occurring due to the pregnant women choosing, them, but because the fathers pressure, or force their pregnant wives or girlfriends to have the abortions, and if the women couragously refuse, they’re murdered as a result. Statstically, men are much more likely to support the so-called ”right” to an abortion than women are.
April 1st, 2010 | 2:41 am
The hype over the claim that murder is the leading cause of death for pregnant women was debunked some years ago. I’m dismayed to see there are so many who swallowed it anyway and are still spreading the poison to others.
First, the statistic-monger used a population of women that includes huge numbers of non-pregnant women. Secondly, women young and healthy enough to be carrying a pregnancy have one of the lowest death rates of any group FOR ANY CAUSE, especially murder. Frankly, it’s man-hating bigots who publicize junk science like that in order to goose an ill-informed public into jumping to false conclusions.
April 9th, 2010 | 2:42 pm
As Bret hinted, I think the point of this post is just an illustration of the fact that for many women “the right to choose” only means they have the right to choose abortion, but aren’t seriously treated as having the right to choose life. This is shown both in the pro-abortion side’s insistence that women be misled to think their child is “just tissue,” and also in the fact that many women are forced to have abortions.
Yes, this could (and did) happen with illegal abortions, but it is far more common for today’s “liberated” women than for women in th past.
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