{"id":1548112,"date":"2022-07-11T07:35:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T11:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548112"},"modified":"2022-07-11T07:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T11:36:01","slug":"the-lefts-forced-birth-motif-is-just-a-projection-of-its-own-lethal-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lefts-forced-birth-motif-is-just-a-projection-of-its-own-lethal-force\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s \u2018Forced Birth\u2019 Motif Is Just A Projection Of Its Own Lethal Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-lefts-forced-birth-motif-is-just-a-projection-of-its-own-lethal-force%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548112&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/seattle-scaled-e1657299324661.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Twitter follower recently sent me a photo of a poster in Seattle alluding to abortion restrictions and bans as \u201cforced motherhood,\u201d which is, to the leftists who drew up this tripe, \u201cfemale enslavement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no mention here about the rights of <em>preborn <\/em>females to life and freedom, mind you, but we are told with the passionate conviction of a Baptist preacher describing the end times that women everywhere are being forced into motherhood, since their \u201cchoice has been taken away from them,\u201d and that this is a violation of their \u201cfundamental human rights.\u201d Women are being <em>coerced, <\/em>you see, and that just doesn\u2019t jibe with the concept of human rights, does it?<\/p>\n<p>Like so many of the left\u2019s talking points about everything from sexuality to school choice, the \u201cforced birth\u201d meme examined critically is not just untrue, it\u2019s a projection onto their opposition of their own brutality and reliance on force and limiting choice.<\/p>\n<p>First, the part that should be obvious: Babies are the natural consequence of sex, and if you have sexual intercourse, you invite the possibility of pregnancy. Getting pregnant and carrying that baby to term and having that baby is not some new dystopian reality for women that Ron \u201cDeathSantis\u201d (or insert the latest rage-inducing Republican politician here) \u201cforced\u201d on \u201cbirthing people.\u201d Procreation is as old as humanity and is indeed the only way humans have survived as a species. <\/p>\n<p>Since the advent of hormonal birth control and \u201csafe and legal\u201d abortion, many humans have been deceived into thinking that the primary reason sex exists is not to make new humans, but rather for enjoyment. This is as false now as it has always been; the fact that new ways to avoid being pregnant have arisen in the last 60 years does not change this basic biological reality that sex makes babies. Participants in consensual sex aren\u2019t being forced<em> <\/em>into birth, they are inviting the possibility of new humans coming into existence. When that possibility manifests, women engage in a completely natural and healthy process of nurturing developing babies in their wombs.<\/p>\n<p>When a woman is impregnated by rape, this is obviously a violation of her autonomy. Still, the child is innocent, and as an innocent human being, he or she has the most fundamental right: the right to life. That <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/03\/08\/reason-democrats-voted-care-babies-survive-abortion-worse-think\/\">right<\/a> cannot be violated to avoid a loss of autonomy for nine months.\u00a0The baby\u2019s right to life doesn\u2019t supersede a mother\u2019s right to life, either, which may be a reason to deliver a baby early, even too early to survive, but never a reason to deliberately destroy him. The leftists currently throwing tantrums over <em>Dobbs<\/em> and sketching clich\u00e9 shackled wrists aren\u2019t asking for abortion to be legal only in cases of rape or threats to mothers\u2019 lives anyway; they\u2019re objecting to most restrictions on the so-called \u201cfundamental right to choose.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Abortion Isn\u2019t a Right<\/h2>\n<p>Yet the idea of abortion as a <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3679288\/iceland-abortion\/\">legally protected right<\/a> is extremely new in the context of thousands of years of human existence, though it wasn\u2019t uncommon among the Romans, the Aztecs, and other ancient civilizations to treat infants and the unborn as disposable. Human rights don\u2019t spring up or die when \u201csafe and effective\u201d technology arises; human rights are as old as humans, since they come from their Creator, and are not dependent on technology. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same with abortion as it is with \u201csex change\u201d surgeries. Your ability to alter your appearance to resemble that of the other sex or brutally remove another human life from existence with minimal physical damage to yourself does not create new \u201cfundamental rights.\u201d These are entitlements dreamed up by people desperate to free themselves from core realities of being physical humans, eager to drag other na\u00efve humans along with them in a quest to \u201cliberate\u201d themselves of these pesky biological \u201cconstraints.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We must suppose abortion advocates haven\u2019t stopped to think that maybe deliberately destroying their own flesh and blood offspring is what\u2019s messed up and unnatural and \u201cforced,\u201d even as they\u2019re buying their organic food and their organic fertilizer and their organic cotton sheets. Going to a medical facility or taking medication at home to dismember or chemically dissolve their own babies is what is truly disturbing and disordered \u2014 not laws against doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion advocates, a group almost exclusively belonging to the left, will not allow the possibility that the desire for abortion might be an indication that either the circumstances or the woman\u2019s mindset about motherhood or both are warped and unhealthy. Instead of helping women create external circumstances like mate choice, career choice, and social support that are more favorable to raising children, they double down on the disordered, the unnatural, the lethal \u201cforce\u201d of abortion as a \u201chuman right.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Consequence not Coercion<\/h2>\n<p>If \u201cforced birth\u201d is how a pro-abortion woman thinks of carrying a baby she accidentally made while having sex, then any other unintended consequence in life must also be \u201cforced\u201d upon her. She ate too much cake and sat on her couch too much: obesity was \u201cforced\u201d on her. She drank too much chardonnay: a hangover was \u201cforced\u201d on her. She took a turn too fast in the rain and slid off the road into a ditch: the ditch was \u201cforced\u201d on her.<\/p>\n<p>When you put it in these terms \u201cforced birth\u201d seems like nonsense \u2014 because it is. Consequence and coercion are too completely different concepts. Not having an \u201ceasy out\u201d of an accident doesn\u2019t mean the consequences of your actions are \u201cforced\u201d on you, it just means you have to live with your consequences. Legal abortion was an \u201ceasy out\u201d the Supreme Court had guaranteed, and so many women who grew up under this regime over the past five decades came to understand abortion as their \u201cright\u201d to escape a life-changing consequence. But this right was never a real right in the God-given sense, only an entitlement granted by the government that in fact relies on force itself. <em>Lethal <\/em>force. Abortion ends a human life, every time. How\u2019s that for a \u201cforced\u201d consequence?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abortion advocates now pivot to very exceptional circumstances like 10-year-olds getting pregnant by incestuous rape to turn the public against those cruel<em> <\/em>Republican-crafted abortion bans. But these abortion advocates were, and still are, pushing abortion as a right in any circumstance whatsoever and declaring any unplanned pregnancy in a world without legal abortion to be a \u201cforced birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abortion ends a human life and stops a heartbeat. Whether leftist abortion advocates freely admit it or not, this is lethal force applied to another innocent human in order to exercise this so-called \u201cright.\u201d The \u201cforced birth\u201d meme is thus another projection of the left\u2019s own brutality and reliance on force onto their opposition, just like they project Ron Desantis as \u201cauthoritarian\u201d for not allowing Covid vaccine mandates while they push government vaccine mandates as \u201cfreedom,\u201d or claim that \u201cfree speech\u201d is \u201coppressive\u201d while censorship is \u201cfreedom from hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The left can post all the sloppy sketches of breaking chains and sobbing women they want, but we should take the power out of the \u201cforced birth\u201d meme by calling it what it is: a projection.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Georgi is a Senior Contributor at The Federalist and host of <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-180-cast-with-georgi-boorman\/id1457346132%E2%80%9C\">The 180 Cast<\/a>, where she interviews people who have changed their minds on important political and social issues. She is a regular guest on Kevin McCullough Radio and other talk radio programs, and her editorial writing brings Christian and conservative principles to the foreground. She is also the co-author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07GCSVXWQ\/\">Clocking Out Early: The Ultimate Guide to Early Retirement<\/a>,&#8221; and enjoys a comfortably frugal life in central Washington with her family.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Twitter follower recently sent me a photo of a poster in Seattle alluding to abortion restrictions and bans as \u201cforced motherhood,\u201d which is, to the leftists who drew up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":660,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}