Feminist agenda

Abortion as a Feminist Issue

Secret strategies

Radical feminists have devised a variety of secret strategies to overcome the objections of those women who do not want to give up the right to decide to have children.

These tactics were outlined in a series of secret strategy meetings. Copies of three memos and other reports from the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), were obtained by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM). These secret documents were subsequently published in the federal Congressional Record.

The memos reveal the close working relationships among the CRR, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and a variety of non-governmental organizations (NGO"s) that work with the United Nations. UN enforcement committees define "reproductive rights" as synonymous with abortion.

The memos show how the UN has been co-opted to support the feminist abortion agenda. One document provides a list of the UN-backed treaties - including the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) - that are being used as a platform to strengthen abortion services.

One document recounts how the International Women"s Health Coalition has focused on "inserting a gender perspective into international policies and agreements."

"The man took command in the home also; the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became the slave of his lust and a mere instrument for the production of children."

The verdict of history is that Marx cared less about the proletariat than about achieving his dream of a socialist utopia. The simple fact is, over 100 million persons have been killed under regimes calling themselves Socialist. Ironically, almost all of the victims were members of the working class.

One should also consider that women represented half of the population whose untapped labour Marx and his allies intended to exploit.

Chairman Mao put it more bluntly: "Many co-operatives are finding themselves short of labour. It has become necessary to arouse the great mass of women who did not work in the fields before to take their place on the labor front." Abortion on demand, or by coercion, makes this objective possible.

Karl Marx also viewed women as effective agitators to overthrow capitalism. As he admitted in a 1868 letter, "major social transformations are impossible without ferment among the women."

Lenin knew that many women would be tempted to go back to the old ways to tend to hearth and home. So the traditional family would need to be abolished.

Women who were sent out to labor in the fields and the factories stopped having babies. In 1917, the average Russian woman had borne six children. By 1991, that number had fallen to two. This fertility free-fall is unprecedented in modern history.

But it was the children who were the greatest victims. As a result of the break-up of families, combined with civil war and famine, countless numbers of Russian children found themselves without family or home. Many ended up as common thieves or prostitutes.

In his book Perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev reflected on 70 years of Russian turmoil: "We have discovered that many of our problems - in children"s and young people"s behavior, in our morals, culture and in production - are partially caused by the weakening of family ties."

Russian women use abortion as a form of birth control; having eight or more abortions is common. In 2001, the fertility rate was 1.25 in Russia. According to official Russian calculations, each woman must bear an average 2.33 children in her lifetime to stabilize the country"s population over generations. While it"s fertility rate is among the lowest in the world, it"s abortion rate is among the highest.

It was a man -- abortion rights activist Larry Lader --  who credits himself with guiding a reluctant Betty Friedan to make abortion an issue for NOW.

Lader and Nathanson"s strategy was highly effective. NOW made the preservation of legal abortion its number one priority.

With this drastic change, a highly visible faction of the women"s movement abandoned the vision of the early feminists. (Source: The Commonwealth, 9/99, The Feminist Case Against Abortion.)

Read more about early feminists Germaine Greer and Betty Friedan, also what abortion opponent Dr David Reardon calls The Seduction of Feminism.