Buckeye RINO | political commentary from an Ohio Republican
She's an iconic feminist, an atheist, and unreservedly pro-abortion. But Camille Paglia has a message for the pro-choice movement in her latest column at Salon . I am excerpting briefly below, but please go read the whole thing. It's one of the most thoughtful pieces I've read on this divisive topic in recent memory.
Despite my pro-abortion stance (I call the term pro-choice "a cowardly euphemism"), I profoundly respect the pro-life viewpoint, which I think has the moral high ground. I wrote in "No Law in the Arena": "We career women are arguing from expedience: it is personally and professionally inconvenient or onerous to bear an unwanted child. The pro-life movement, in contrast, is arguing that every conception is sacred and that society has a responsibility to protect the defenseless." The silence from second-wave
Although I am an atheist who worships only great nature, I recognize the superior moral beauty of religious doctrine that defends the sanctity of life. The quality of idea and language in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, for example, exceeds anything in grimly utilitarian feminism.
Buckeye RINO | political commentary from an Ohio Republican