they are now celebrating it as a form of freedom, as a way for women to have career success. or as Oprah puts it: Without reproductive rights there is no American dream.
This assumes the American dream is about making money and being successful in the market place and to do this you have to get rid of things like spouses, families, and children (and old people) who stand in the way of serving the capitalistic system.
but is that true?
but most women do want families, and this is not addressed: which is why Vance's cat lady quip resulted in so much hatred.
Because many of these women who follow the trends they are being taught by our culture, in their hearts do want children, and often lament their abortions in the depth of their heart (an unhealed wound: The left would ridicule them if they admit it, and the right and righteous are seen as condemning them for the decision they often made under duress or done with ignorance that it was killing a child).
ironically, if you read feminist essays you run across this sorrow, where often the women see the dead child as a ghost who comes to them in dreams or daydreams to haunt them. So one wonders if the high rate of depression and drug abuse and suicide in young women is from this unhealed wound.
Sigh.
By the way this is not from the religious right making them regret their decision. When I worked with psychiatrists, we had a Russian patient who was in a deep psychotic depression hallucinating a child that she had aborted. The Russian psychiatrist who was treating her told us that they saw a lot of this when he trained in Russia.
And right now I am reading about the forced abortions in China in a novel by Mo Yan: Frog, (the hint is that the Chinese word for Frog is the sound of a child's cry) that has the guilt of the abortionist and how the women try to stop her, is as part of the plot,
But when her lover defects, Gugu's own loyalty to the Party is questioned. She decides to prove her allegiance by strictly enforcing the one-child policy, keeping tabs on the number of children in the village, and performing abortions on women as many as eight months pregnant. In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. At once illuminating and devastating, it shines a light into the heart of communist China."
but you wouldn't know it from the Wikipedia page about the novel, or most of the reviews in the western liberal press.
you see, limiting population to make China prosperous was the goal of the one child policy, and the irony is that as modernity conquers the world, women are voluntarily leaving marriage and children behind in their quest to fulfill their dreams. So most Asian and Western (and even advanced Islamic) countries are facing depopulation in the next fifty years.
Sigh.
The Philippines hasn't reached that point yet, but the modern pied pipers are pushing it here too, via trendy magazines or internet influencers
For example: In the last week, there were two editorials in the Phil Inquirer. One was to tell young girls they didn't have to marry to be happy (never mind that most of the single women, especially in our OFWs, stay single to work and support their families),
and another that insists the Philippines is wrong to see children as a way to invest in the future, because the government will be doing this (as if the government in poor countries are able to do this).
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sigh.
You know, there are biological aspects to life and humans have evolved to be imperfect pair bonding beings, and wanting children, like the belief in God, is not something that can be ignored (one can see it as this coming from evolution or part of human beings that God put into our patterns of life).
But either way, it is part of the reality of life. And societies that try to make a utopia that lies about this reality are not going to succeed.
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