{"id":2244494,"date":"2024-05-14T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-8-leftist-myths-about-the-war-on-women\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T17:55:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:55:03","slug":"shapiro-8-leftist-myths-about-the-war-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-8-leftist-myths-about-the-war-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking 8 Leftist Misconceptions on &#8216;The War On Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fshapiro-8-leftist-myths-about-the-war-on-women%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=2244494&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--><p>The myth that abortion is equally chosen by \u2064all is debunked by statistics, showing it mostly affecting the \u2064poor and minorities.\u200c Since Roe\u2063 v. \u200bWade in 1973, the US \u200bhas seen around 1 million abortions annually, primarily impacting women of color. Contrary to popular belief, Margaret \u2063Sanger, founder\u200b of Planned \u200cParenthood,\u200c opposed abortion, focusing on birth control\u2063 instead. Statistics reveal that abortion disproportionately affects the poor and\u200b minorities, with approximately 1 \u2063million annual abortions \u2062in the US since Roe v. Wade. Women of color are primarily impacted. Surprisingly, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned \u2064Parenthood, opposed abortion\u200b and emphasized birth control as her\u2064 focus instead.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>In the race to establish victimhood so craved by the Left, the feminist movement has declared that today\u2019s American women are victims of the patriarchy. They are supposedly the targets of a \u201cwar on women\u201d designed to deprive them of their fair earnings, force them into pregnancy and childbearing, and urge them into unhappy marriages.<\/p>\n<p>This is all absolute rot. American women are the freest, most prosperous women in the history of humanity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myth 1: Feminism is just about female equality.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact: Second-wave and third-wave feminism are about rejecting marriage and children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Feminism began with the utterly inarguable position that women should be able to do jobs for which they were qualified, but unfortunately feminism didn\u2019t end there. Second wave feminists, like the harridan Betty Friedan, impacted heavily by the philosophy of communist Frederick Engels, compared the institution of marriage \u2014 which protected women from abandonment, as we\u2019ve now come to see in large swaths of the black community \u2014 to concentration camps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we continue to produce millions of young mothers who stop their growth and education short of identity, we are committing quite simply genocide, starting with mass burial of American women and ending with the progressive dehumanization of their sons and daughters,\u201d declared Friedan.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gloria Steinem infamously said that a woman needed a man like a fish needed a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>But all this would have remained just nasty theorizing by a particularly misguided set of women were it not for technological developments with regard to birth control. After all, theory was wonderful \u2014 but when women wanted to have sex, they still believed, rightly, that it would be safer for them to do so within the confines of a marriage to a man committed to their support and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>But the second wave feminists had set the ideological groundwork for women\u2019s \u201cliberation.\u201d And the development of the pill granted the practical basis to destroy the necessity of childbearing, and therefore marriage. As Jonathan Last writes in his eminently readable book, \u201cWhat To Expect When No One\u2019s Expecting,\u201d \u201cIt turns out that the Pill is used primarily by well-educated, middle-class, white women who are in their prime reproductive years.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead of reproducing, these women are postponing marriage and reproduction. Before the pill, the assumption was that sex would lead to pregnancy, and pregnancy outside marriage was both socially and personally undesirable. After the pill, women could wait indefinitely to marry and almost-indefinitely (in many cases, until too late) to have children. Virginity before marriage disappeared into the background; it was no longer necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The average age of marriage for women jumped from 20 in 1960 to 27 by 2013.<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\"><sup>[3]<\/sup><\/a>  The average age of first childbearing during that period jumped \u2014 but only for upper income, college-educated women. Among college-educated women, the average age for first birth was 30, and just 12 percent were births to unmarried women. The same was not true for non-college educated women. For those who dropped out of high school, feminism hasn\u2019t been much fun. The average age of first birth was 20, while average marriage age was 25. All told, 83 percent of first births in this group, as The Atlantic reported, were to unwed mothers. Even for those who went to college for a few years, \u201caverage age for first birth is 24 and average marriage age is 27; 58 percent of first births are to unwed mothers.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\"><sup>[4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The common age for marriage among women, by the way, has only continued to climb. By 2022, the median age had risen to nearly 29 years old.<a href=\"#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\"><sup>[5]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Myth 2: Men and women are the same.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact: Men and women are different on average, both in brain and body.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the great myths propagated by feminists and leftists pushing the transgender movement is that men and women are the same in both brain and body. That\u2019s absolute hogwash. Men and women are radically different physically, obviously, but they are also different in terms of brain structure and psychology. Here\u2019s Diane Halpern, president of the American Psychological Association:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>At the time I started writing this book it seemed clear to me that any between sex differences in thinking abilities were due to socialization practices, artifacts, and mistakes in the research. After reviewing a pile of journal articles that stood several feet high, and numerous books and book chapters that dwarfed the stack of journal articles, I changed my mind. \u2026 There are real and in some cases sizable sex differences with respect to some cognitive abilities<\/em>.<a href=\"#_ftn6\" name=\"_ftnref6\"><sup>[6]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker: \u201c<em>differences between the sexes are part of the human condition.\u201d<\/em> Pretending those differences away is anti-scientific.<a href=\"#_ftn7\" name=\"_ftnref7\"><sup>[7]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The way that the Left attempts to maintain the lie that men and women are indistinguishable is by distinguishing between \u201cgender\u201d and \u201csex.\u201d They suggest that while there are sex differences, \u201cgender\u201d is merely a social construct. Here\u2019s a typical summation from Monash University: \u201cSex refers to biological differences; chromosomes, hormonal profiles, internal and external sex organs. Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine and feminine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But gender and sex are connected, obviously \u2014 behavior is connected with biology. By reducing gender down to your personal view of masculinity and femininity, we end up creating a subjective category that has no real hard lines. No wonder Facebook says there are dozens of genders. They\u2019re wrong, by this standard: there are 8 billion, one for each person on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The Left then conflates gender with sex in a sort of reverse osmosis. They say that if gender is completely malleable, so too is sex. This is ridiculous. If gender is to mean anything, it means the combination of social standards and biology \u2014 which means it is related to biology, which means it is not completely malleable. As Richard Lippa writes in his book, \u201cGender, Nature and Nurture\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Some researchers have argued that the word sex should be used to refer to the biological status of being male or female, whereas the word gender should be used to refer to all the socially defined, learned, constructed accouterments of sex, such as hairstyle, dress, nonverbal mannerisms, and interests. However, it is not at all clear to what degree differences between males and females are due to biological factors versus learned and cultural factors.<a href=\"#_ftn8\" name=\"_ftnref8\"><sup>[8]<\/sup><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, trying to separate sex from gender completely is an exercise in idiocy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myth 3: Women are paid less for the same work.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact: Women are paid more under the same circumstances.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest talking point from the Left is that women are supposedly paid around 20% less than men.<a href=\"#_ftn9\" name=\"_ftnref9\"><sup>[9]<\/sup><\/a>  But the truth is women are not paid less for the same work.<a href=\"#_ftn10\" name=\"_ftnref10\"><sup>[10]<\/sup><\/a>  As Christina Hoff Sommers wrote in 2016, \u201cThe bottom line: the 23-cent gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked per week. When such <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/02\/01\/no-women-don-t-make-less-money-than-men.html\">relevant factors<\/a> are considered, the wage gap <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/christina-hoff-sommers\/wage-gap_b_2073804.html\">narrows<\/a> to the point of vanishing.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn11\" name=\"_ftnref11\"><sup>[11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actually, young childless women often earn more than men. As Pew Research documented in 2022, \u201cyoung women are out-earning young men in several U.S. cities.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn12\" name=\"_ftnref12\"><sup>[12]<\/sup><\/a>  And this has been true for years. Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\">Time.com<\/a> reporting in 2010:<\/p>\n<p>According to a new analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group. \u2026 The new study suggests that the gap is bigger than previously thought, with young women in New York City, Los Angeles and San Diego making 17%, 12% and 15% more than their male peers, respectively. And it also holds true even in reasonably small areas like the Raleigh-Durham region and Charlotte in North Carolina (both 14% more), and Jacksonville, Fla. (6%).<a href=\"#_ftn13\" name=\"_ftnref13\"><sup>[13]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reason for the pay gap is simple: women make different career choices, choose to work different jobs and different hours, and ask for raises in different ways. It\u2019s not sexism driving that pay gap. It\u2019s life choices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myth 4: There is a college rape epidemic.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact: There is no college rape epidemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Talk of a campus \u201crape epidemic\u201d is pure fantasy \u2014 as Christina Hoff Sommers has pointed out, the \u201cone in five women is raped on campus\u201d statistic is an out-and-out lie reliant on conflating \u201cattempted forced kissing\u201d with sexual assault. As Professor James Alan Fox of Northeastern University and Richard Moran of Mount Holyoke College explain, \u201cThe estimated 19% sexual assault rate among college women is based on a survey at two large four-year universities, which might not accurately reflect our nation\u2019s colleges overall. In addition, the survey had a large non-response rate, with the clear possibility that those who had been victimized were more apt to have completed the questionnaire, resulting in an inflated prevalence figure.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn14\" name=\"_ftnref14\"><sup>[14]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In actuality, the Bureau of Justice Statistics \u201cViolent Victimization of College Students\u201d report shows that from 1995-2002, there were six rapes per thousand per year; the rape rate has been dropping rapidly, too.<a href=\"#_ftn15\" name=\"_ftnref15\"><sup>[15]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Myth 5: Abortion protects women.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact: Abortion is almost never medically necessary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the necessity for abortion, the Left usually attempts to shift the discussion from elective abortion to cases of medical necessity, or to cases of rape or incest. That\u2019s because it\u2019s unpleasant for the Left to discuss the vast majority of abortions, which are elective and prompted only by the comfort of the mother, or her unwillingness to raise a child under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>But only a tiny percentage of abortions spring from rape and incest. As early as 1987, the Alan Guttmacher Institute asked women about their reasons for abortion, and only one percent of the 1,900 women surveyed suggested rape or incest and 95 percent of those \u201cwho mentioned rape or incest named other reasons as well for deciding to abort.\u201d As Tamar Lewin reported at the time, \u201cIn a separate 1979 analysis, when federally financed abortions were available in cases of rape or incest or where the pregnancy threatened the woman\u2019s life or physical health, the institute said that a total of 3,675 women had abortions paid for by Federal money. But the institute said that it knew which category qualified only 2,444 of the women, and of these, 72 were eligible because of rape or incest.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn16\" name=\"_ftnref16\"><sup>[16]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Guttmacher Institute statistic is still used as the baseline for future estimates, although the numbers are likely much lower now than one percent. PolitiFact, for instance, reported that there may have been just 7,165 pregnancies from rape in 2010 in the United States \u2014 and that doesn\u2019t say how many of those pregnancies resulted in abortion.<a href=\"#_ftn17\" name=\"_ftnref17\"><sup>[17]<\/sup><\/a>  The estimates on the total number of pregnancies caused by rape vary widely, with some women\u2019s groups putting it at around 30,000 per year.<a href=\"#_ftn18\" name=\"_ftnref18\"><sup>[18]<\/sup><\/a>  Meanwhile, there are around a million abortions every year in the United States.<a href=\"#_ftn19\" name=\"_ftnref19\"><sup>[19]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How about abortion due to medical necessity? That is extraordinarily rare \u2014 even in cases of preeclampsia or toxemia in late-stage pregnancy, C-sections are often the best medical solution.<a href=\"#_ftn20\" name=\"_ftnref20\"><sup>[20]<\/sup><\/a>  There is a difference, too, between taking actions to save the life of the mother that result in the death of the unborn child and aborting a child for medical necessity.<a href=\"#_ftn21\" name=\"_ftnref21\"><sup>[21]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Myth 6: Abortion doesn\u2019t end a life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact: Abortion ends a life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most honest abortion advocates will simply say that an unborn child is an unborn child, and that the unborn child\u2019s interest in life does not outweigh the mother\u2019s preference. But most abortion advocates aren\u2019t so honest. Instead, they participate in the blatantly anti-scientific lie that a fetus is not a human life. They attempt to draw lines at feeling pain, or brain function, or viability, or any other variety of irrelevant points.<\/p>\n<p>The process of human life begins at conception. A new creature is created with its own genetics, its own blood type, its own body. Human life changes over time. Brain development changes over time. But that does not mean a child is less human than an adult, or a person with Down\u2019s Syndrome is less human than a person without that condition.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Hymie Gordon of the Mayo Clinic affirmed this fact unequivocally, stating, \u201cBy all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception.\u201d Professor Micheline Matthews-Roth of Harvard Medical School agrees: \u201cIt is incorrect to say that biological data cannot be decisive \u2026 It is scientifically correct to say that an individual life begins at conception.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn22\" name=\"_ftnref22\"><sup>[22]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How about life beginning at implantation? That would suggest that babies fertilized outside the womb are not life, and that even if we developed artificial wombs, they would not be lives.<\/li>\n<li>How about at feeling pain? There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-debunking-pro-abortion-propaganda\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: Debunking Pro-Abortion Propaganda\">fully grown human beings<\/a> with genetic conditions preventing them from feeling pain. Are they not human?<\/li>\n<li>How about viability? We have many people who live thanks to dependence on machines \u2014 are they no longer human?<\/li>\n<li>How about brain activity and sentience? We each go to sleep every night. Would it be acceptable to murder us in our sleep?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is only one logical line to draw when it comes to human life: conception.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you can still argue honestly that fetal life shouldn\u2019t outweigh maternal life. But you cannot argue that a baby in the womb is not a baby in the womb, that life is not life, and that terminating a life isn\u2019t killing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myth 7: Abortion is a choice equally utilized by all segments of the population.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact: Abortion largely occurs among poor people and minorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that the Constitution of the United States invalidated virtually all serious state restrictions on abortion, nearly 60 million children have been aborted in the United States.<a href=\"#_ftn23\" name=\"_ftnref23\"><sup>[23]<\/sup><\/a>  America easily averages a million abortions per year<a href=\"#_ftn24\" name=\"_ftnref24\"><sup>[24]<\/sup><\/a>  \u2014 a far cry from the less than 200,000 per year reported prior to Roe v. Wade.<a href=\"#_ftn25\" name=\"_ftnref25\"><sup>[25]<\/sup><\/a>  While the oft-cited figure that one in three American women will have an abortion is certainly an exaggeration, a significant portion of American women will indeed kill their unborn children.<a href=\"#_ftn26\" name=\"_ftnref26\"><sup>[26]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These abortions occur disproportionately among women of color. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black women are five times more likely than white women to have abortions, and Latina women are twice as likely.<a href=\"#_ftn27\" name=\"_ftnref27\"><sup>[27]<\/sup><\/a>  In New York City, a child conceived by a black mother has a better chance of being aborted than born.<a href=\"#_ftn28\" name=\"_ftnref28\"><sup>[28]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Myth 8: Margaret Sanger loved abortion.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact: Margaret Sanger despised abortion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, abhorred abortion. She called it a \u201chorror\u201d in 1920, adding, \u201cI assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn29\" name=\"_ftnref29\"><sup>[29]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sanger was, however, the strongest advocate for birth control in the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. She favored birth control largely because she didn\u2019t like what she termed the \u201cdefective\u201d and the poor \u2014 she hoped that the poor would stop breeding, and the only people left would be the \u201cfinest flowers of American civilization,\u201d which were threatened by \u201cthose human weeds.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn30\" name=\"_ftnref30\"><sup>[30]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Sanger\u2019s desire for birth control didn\u2019t have its intended effect \u2014 birth control usage favors the upper income earners, the highly educated. Those further down the economic ladder don\u2019t use birth control nearly as often as those near the top.<\/p>\n<p>So, how would society \u201ccare\u201d for those lower down on the social ladder?<\/p>\n<p>With the very evil Sanger opposed: abortion. And they\u2019d do it in her name, with her organization, Planned Parenthood, leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>  Betty Friedan, <em>The Feminine Mystique <\/em>(WW Norton &#038; Company: New York, 2001), 495.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a>  Jonathan V. Last, <em>What to Expect When No One\u2019s Expecting <\/em>(Encounter Books: New York, 2013), 55.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\"><sup>[3]<\/sup><\/a>  Eleanor Barkhorn, \u201cGetting Married Later Is Great for College-Educated Women,\u201d TheAtlantic.com, March 15, 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/sexes\/archive\/2013\/03\/getting-married-later-is-great-for-college-educated-women\/274040\/\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/sexes\/archive\/2013\/03\/getting-married-later-is-great-for-college-educated-women\/274040\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\"><sup>[4]<\/sup><\/a>  Eleanor Barkhorn, \u201cGetting Married Later Is Great for College-Educated Women,\u201d TheAtlantic.com, March 15, 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/sexes\/archive\/2013\/03\/getting-married-later-is-great-for-college-educated-women\/274040\/\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/sexes\/archive\/2013\/03\/getting-married-later-is-great-for-college-educated-women\/274040\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" name=\"_ftn5\"><sup>[5]<\/sup><\/a>  \u201cEstimated median age of Americans at their first wedding in the United States from 1998 to 2022, by sex,\u201d Statista.com, Nov. 17, 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/371933\/median-age-of-us-americans-at-their-first-wedding\/#:~:text=Median%20age%20of%20U.S.%20Americans,wedding%201998%2D2022%2C%20by%20sex&#038;text=In%202022%2C%20the%20median%20age,median%20age%20was%2030.5%20years\">https:\/\/www.statista.com<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/women-dont-need-to-make-a-lot-of-money-to-start-a-family\/\" title=\"Women Don\u2019t Need To Make A Lot Of Money To Start A Family\">\/statistics\/371933\/median-age-<\/a>of-us-americans-at-their-first-wedding\/#:~:text=Median%20age%20of%20U.S.%20Americans,wedding%201998%2D2022%2C%20by%20sex&#038;text=In%202022%2C%20the%20median%20age,median%20age%20was%2030.5%20years<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref6\" name=\"_ftn6\"><sup>[6]<\/sup><\/a>  \u201cThe Science of Gender and Science: Pinker vs. Pelke A Debate,\u201d Edge.org, May 16, 2005 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edge.org\/event\/the-science-of-gender-and-science-pinker-vs-spelke-a-debate\">https:\/\/www.edge.org\/event\/the-science-of-gender-and-science-pinker-vs-spelke-a-debate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref7\" name=\"_ftn7\"><sup>[7]<\/sup><\/a>  \u201cThe Science of Gender and Science: Pinker vs. Pelke A Debate,\u201d Edge.org, May 16, 2005 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edge.org\/event\/the-science-of-gender-and-science-pinker-vs-spelke-a-debate\">https:\/\/www.edge.org\/event\/the-science-of-gender-and-science-pinker-vs-spelke-a-debate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref8\" name=\"_ftn8\"><sup>[8]<\/sup><\/a>  Richard A. Lippa, <em>Gender, Nature and Nurture<\/em> (Psychology Press: New York, 2002), 32.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref9\" name=\"_ftn9\"><sup>[9]<\/sup><\/a>  Fry, Richard, \u201cYoung women are out-earning young men in several U.S. cities,\u201d PewResearch.com, March 28, 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2022\/03\/28\/young-women-are-out-earning-young-men-in-several-u-s-cities\/\">https:\/\/www.pewresearch.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-sowell-brutally-debunk-a-feminist-to-her-face\/\" title=\"Watch Sowell expertly dismantle a feminist's arguments.\">org\/short-reads\/2022\/03\/28\/young-women-<\/a>are-out-earning-young-men-in-several-u-s-cities\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref10\" name=\"_ftn10\"><sup>[10]<\/sup><\/a>  Karen Agness, \u201cDon\u2019t Buy Into The Gender Pay Gap Myth,\u201d Forbes.com, April 12, 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/karinagness\/2016\/04\/12\/dont-buy-into-the-gender-pay-gap-myth\/#15effd804766\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/karinagness\/2016\/04\/12\/dont-buy-into-the-gender-pay-gap-myth\/#15effd804766<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref11\" name=\"_ftn11\"><sup>[11]<\/sup><\/a>  Christina Hoff Sommers, \u201c6 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die,\u201d Time.com, June 17, 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3222543\/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism\/\">http:\/\/time.com\/3222543\/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref12\" name=\"_ftn12\"><sup>[12]<\/sup><\/a>  Fry, Richard, \u201cYoung women are out-earning young men in several U.S. cities,\u201d PewResearch.com, March 28, 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2022\/03\/28\/young-women-are-out-earning-young-men-in-several-u-s-cities\/\">https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2022\/03\/28\/young-women-are-out-earning-young-men-in-several-u-s-cities\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref13\" name=\"_ftn13\"><sup>[13]<\/sup><\/a>  Belinda Luscombe, \u201cWorkplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top,\u201d Time.com, September 1, 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/business\/article\/0,8599,2015274,00.html\">http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/business\/article\/0,8599,2015274,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref14\" name=\"_ftn14\"><sup>[14]<\/sup><\/a>  Christina Hoff Sommers, \u201c6 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die,\u201d Time.com, June 17, 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3222543\/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism\/\">http:\/\/time.com\/3222543\/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref15\" name=\"_ftn15\"><sup>[15]<\/sup><\/a>  Caroline Kitchens, \u201cThe Rape \u2018Epidemic\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Actually Exist,\u201d USNews.com, October 24, 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/blogs\/economic-intelligence\/2013\/10\/24\/statistics-dont-back-up-claims-about-rape-culture\">http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/blogs\/economic-intelligence\/2013\/10\/24\/statistics-dont-back-up-claims-about-rape-culture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref16\" name=\"_ftn16\"><sup>[16]<\/sup><\/a>  Tamar Lewin, \u201cRape and Incest: Just 1% of All Abortions,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, October 13, 1989 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1989\/10\/13\/us\/rape-and-incest-just-1-of-all-abortions.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1989\/10\/13\/us\/rape-and-incest-just-1-of-all-abortions.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref17\" name=\"_ftn17\"><sup>[17]<\/sup><\/a>  \u201cSurveys show wide disagreement on number of rape-related pregnancies per year,\u201d PolitiFact.com, August 15, 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/texas\/statements\/2013\/aug\/15\/wendy-davis\/surveys-show-wide-disagreement-number-rape-related\/\">http:\/\/www.PolitiFact.com\/texas\/statements\/2013\/aug\/15\/wendy-davis\/surveys-show-wide-disagreement-number-rape-related\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref18\" name=\"_ftn18\"><sup>[18]<\/sup><\/a>  Committee on Healthcare for Underserved Women, \u201cSexual Assault,\u201d ACOG.org, April 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acog.org\/clinical\/clinical-guidance\/committee-opinion\/articles\/2019\/04\/sexual-assault#:~:text=Sexual%20assault%20may%20lead%20to,from%20rape%20each%20year%2010.\">https:\/\/www.acog.org\/clinical\/clinical-guidance\/committee-opinion\/articles\/2019\/04\/sexual-assault#:~:text=Sexual%20assault%20may%20lead%20to,from%20rape%20each%20year%2010.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref19\" name=\"_ftn19\"><sup>[19]<\/sup><\/a>  Selena Simmons-Duffin, \u201cDespite bans in some states, more than a million abortions were provided in 2023,\u201d NPR.org, March 19, 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2024\/03\/19\/1238293143\/abortion-data-how-many-us-2023\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2024\/03\/19\/1238293143\/abortion-data-how-many-us-2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref20\" name=\"_ftn20\"><sup>[20]<\/sup><\/a>  Sarah Terzo, \u201cFormer abortionist: Abortion is never medically necessary to save the life of the mother,\u201d LiveActionnews.org, October 21, 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/liveactionnews.org\/former-abortionist-abortion-is-never-medically-necessary-to-save-the-life-of-the-mother\/\">http:\/\/liveactionnews.org\/former-abortionist-abortion-is-never-medically-necessary-to-save-the-life-of-the-mother\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref21\" name=\"_ftn21\"><sup>[21]<\/sup><\/a>  Lori Robertson, \u201cThe Life of the Mother,\u201d FactCheck.org, October 23, 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2012\/10\/the-life-of-the-mother\/\">http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2012\/10\/the-life-of-the-mother\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref22\" name=\"_ftn22\"><sup>[22]<\/sup><\/a>  Randy Alcorn, \u201cScientists Attest to Life Beginning At Conception,\u201d NAAPC.com <a href=\"http:\/\/naapc.org\/why-life-begins-at-conception\/\">http:\/\/naapc.org\/why-life-begins-at-conception\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref23\" name=\"_ftn23\"><sup>[23]<\/sup><\/a>  Steven Ertelt, \u201c58,586,256 Abortions in America Since Roe v. Wade,\u201d LifeNews.com, January 14, 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2016\/01\/14\/58586256-abortions-in-america-since-roe-v-wade-in-1973\/\">http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2016\/01\/14\/58586256-abortions-in-america-since-roe-v-wade-in-1973\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref24\" name=\"_ftn24\"><sup>[24]<\/sup><\/a>  Jeff Diamant, et al, \u201cWhat the data says about abortion in the U.S.,\u201d PewResearch.org, March 25, 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2024\/03\/25\/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-us\/\">https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2024\/03\/25\/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref25\" name=\"_ftn25\"><sup>[25]<\/sup><\/a>  Jonathan V. Last, <em>What to Expect When No One\u2019s Expecting <\/em>(Encounter Books: New York, 2013), 60.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref26\" name=\"_ftn26\"><sup>[26]<\/sup><\/a>  Michelle Ye Hee Lee, \u201cThe stale claim that \u2018one in three\u2019 women will have an abortion by age 45,\u201d WashingtonPost.com, September 30, 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2015\/09\/30\/the-stale-claim-that-one-in-three-women-will-have-an-abortion-by-age-45\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-governor-asks-facebook-to-censor-pro-life-misinformation-about-abortion\/\" title=\"New York Governor Asks Facebook To Censor Pro-Life \u2018Misinformation\u2019 About Abortion\">\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2015\/09\/30\/<\/a>the-stale-claim-that-one-in-three-women-will-have-an-abortion-by-age-45\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref27\" name=\"_ftn27\"><sup>[27]<\/sup><\/a>  Zoe Dutton, \u201cAbortion\u2019s Racial Gap,\u201d TheAtlantic.com, September 22, 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2014\/09\/abortions-racial-gap\/380251\/\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2014\/09\/abortions-racial-gap\/380251\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref28\" name=\"_ftn28\"><sup>[28]<\/sup><\/a>   Lauren Caruba, \u201cCynthia Meyer says more black babies are aborted in New York City than born,\u201d PolitiFact.com, November 25, 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/texas\/statements\/2015\/nov\/25\/cynthia-meyer\/cynthia-meyer-says-more-black-babies-are-aborted-n\/\">http:\/\/www.PolitiFact.com\/texas\/statements\/2015\/nov\/25\/cynthia-meyer\/cynthia-meyer-says-more-black-babies-are-aborted-n\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref29\" name=\"_ftn29\"><sup>[29]<\/sup><\/a>  \u201cWhat Did Margaret Sanger Think About Abortion?\u201d RedState.com, January 23, 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/ironchapman\/2013\/01\/23\/what-did-margaret-sanger-think-about-abortion\/\">http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/ironchapman\/2013\/01\/23\/what-did-margaret-sanger-think-about-abortion\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref30\" name=\"_ftn30\"><sup>[30]<\/sup><\/a>  Jonathan V. Last, <em>What to Expect When No One\u2019s Expecting <\/em>(Encounter Books: New York, 2013), 53.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the rush for victimhood, the feminist movement claims American women face a &#8220;war on women.&#8221; Allegedly victimized by the patriarchy, they are said to endure wage inequality, reproductive pressures, and coercive marriages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":2244495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-1085348318.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-1085348318.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244494","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}