Feminists for life is a pro-life feminist organization that seeks to empower women to choose life for their children. Members of Feminists for Life believe that abortion is often an easy way out for men man who impregnate women and can can escape the responsibility of parenthood, leaving the woman to deal with the emotional physical aftereffects of abortion. They also argue that many women feel coerced into abortions by their life circumstances and are not choosing abortion freely. Finally, they believe that the legalization of abortion allows society to get by without putting policies in place to help mothers – things like availability of daycare, and and end to job discrimination against pregnant women or women with families, etc., because women are expected to simply “choose” abortion. Here are two quotes from the Feminists for Life debate handbook.
“This is not a choice between vanilla and chocolate. This is a choice like “Do you want me to break your arm, or your leg?” This is a choice that says, “Do you want to see your life derailed, see your dreams turn to ashes – or do you want to undergo humiliating, invasive operation and have your own child die?” “Do you want to sacrifice your life plans, or would you rather sacrifice your offspring?” It’s a lousy choice. Women should not be forced into making such a choice. We should be able to keep both mother and child lives and bodies intact.”
Feminists for Life Debate Handbook, 15
“If we could limit abortion to only those women who truly decided to have one, with adequate information without unfair and unjust pressures, we could cut the abortion rate dramatically.”
Feminists for Life Debate Handbook, 12
Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000) 131
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