The pill isn't the problem

The RU-486 pill has passed FDA approval and will soon be readily available to the public. Now a woman can end her pregnancy within the first seven weeks easily and without too much hassle. This is touted as a progressive move for women's rights.\nI don't like the term abortion. Very few people have opinions about this term. Most people agree with somebody else's opinion without ever really thinking about it for themselves. I prefer the term "democratic sterilization," because this describes what abortion really is, an attempt to sterilize certain communities of people to keep the babies off of welfare. \nThe communist empire of China does the same thing, only they force abortion down the throats of women. The Beijing regime forces women to visit a family planning center three times a year, according to prolifeinfo.org. A woman is allowed one child. If she gets pregnant a second time, the fetus is forcibly aborted. And, since so many families in China have a sense of honor that calls for a son to carry on the family name, ultrasound is often used to target female babies for abortion. According to the London Telegraph, there are now 90 million more marrying-age men than women in the country. In the Zhejiang province, there are 860,000 males age 22 and older compared to 360,000 females, according to the Telegraph. You see, in China at least, they don't try to hide the fact that abortion is being used as a form of selective genocide.\nWe are a democracy, and thus must use clever psychological tricks for the same actions. Here, we brainwash women into believing it is their right to end a life if they so choose. A baby is considered sub-human and therefore subject to the whim of the mother. Eighty percent of abortions come from single mothers. Of these, 31.1 percent are black, 20.2 percent are Hispanic and 61.3 percent are white, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And 33.8 percent are unemployed.\nDemocratic sterilization is legal in this country because it is economically desirable. If we truly care about women's rights, we will stop treating single mothers as if they have a scarlet letter and start setting up programs for their aid. This doesn't happen because it is cheaper and easier to have them abort.\nThe pro-life movement has done more to encourage abortion than the pro-choice movement has. Pro-lifers are so worried about Roe v. Wade that they miss the point. I say, let the government have its laws, "give unto Caesar what is Caesar's," and let's do all we can to support mothers in trouble so they don't have to have abortions. I'd like to see the conservative Christians stop building massive churches and start putting money into programs for single mothers. \nThe pro-choice argument has been likened to the pro-slavery argument in the antebellum South. The pro-life argument should be likened to the anti-slavery movement, many of whose members were quick to point out the evils of slavery, but who refused to give jobs or equal status to freed African Americans. They helped keep slavery entrenched in the American way of life. \nAs long as pro-lifers keep shaking their heads at the pregnant mothers, and continue to give them no support, the brainwashing psychology associated with democratic sterilization will continue to work. It's the worst kind of irony that single mothers or the mothers who continue with unwanted pregnancies are the embodiment of so many "Christian" ideals such as courage, unconditional love and selflessness, and yet they are so looked down upon. \nI am not saying all of those in the pro-life movement are like this. In fact, there has been a great movement toward the programs I'm talking about. But until it becomes the staple argument of the movement, no progress can be made. I'm not saying all of those who buy into democratic sterilization are impoverished. That's simply not true. But if the ruse of democratic sterilization is to be kept up, the "right" of abortion must be given to everyone, and that means those outside the target audience are subject to the same psychological brainwashing as the poor.\nThe approval of RU-486 for use in the United States is further proof that we put finances ahead of morals. The thinking is that if we can make abortion easy enough, nobody'll get hurt. It's one more method of coercing women into selecting the lives they will keep or not keep. \nThe problem isn't with the pill. The problem is that we live in a country that believes the pill is OK to use.