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Unequal Rights for women

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Image via Wikipedia One of the ironies of feminism is that by its advocacy of abortion it has endorsed the single greatest means of rob­bing women of their most basic right—the right to life . Abortion has become the primary means of eliminat­ing unwanted females across the globe. More girls than boys are now being killed by abortion. To kill an unborn female is to kill a young woman. There can be no equal rights for all women until there are equal rights for unborn women. Related articles Abortion and Compassion Within Islam (almostclever.wordpress.com) More scary, race-baiting, anti-abortion propaganda aimed at black women (newblackwoman.com) LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report 6/26/11 (deaconforlife.blogspot.com) Russian legislators under fire for proposed abortion restrictions (rt.com) LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report 6/26/11 (deaconjohnspace.wordpress.com) War on Women or Protection of Unborn Life? (erasetheneed.wordpress.com) Perdue vetoes bill which put constraints...

Negative Psychological Impact of Abortion Results from 'Hard-Wiring' in Women's Brains: Scholars

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"Women are hard-wired for relationships—and a woman’s relationship to her baby is one of the most powerful of all, whether she realizes it or not. The hard-wiring of the brain may explain many women’s disturbing post-abortion feelings," write Evelyn Birge Vitz and Paul C. Vitz in  an article  published in the September 20 issue of Public Discourse. Evelyn Vitz is Professor of French and Affiliated Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University . Paul C. Vitz is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at New York University and Senior Scholar at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences. In the article the authors relate spending a semester with students studying the stories of women who shared their experiences after an abortion. The authors found that "many of these women are in acute pain ; some are almost totally incapacitated" by their post-abortion feelings. "What is particularly striking is that most of the women who have these powerful emotional...