Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions: Second Edition (Owlet Book)
by Gloria Steinem

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Book Review: A Mixed Bag
Summary: 2 Stars

Unfortunately, like most feminist literature, this work confuses the liberation and equality with doing whatever one wants. Abortion, of course, is the worst example of this. The author is always careful to defend a woman's right 'to choose' but never actually comes out to say what she is 'choosing'. The choice is to end a human life - even science argees with that! An embryo (because pro-abortionists claim that an embryo is not a fetus, and therefore not human, until after the first trimester(and even that they cannot agree upon, some say it is earlier some say later)) has a separate DNA code from either it's mother or it's father, or any other human being on the planet. Using high-resolution imaging, at three weeks from conception (when most women would be finding out that they are pregnant and arranging for thier abortion, if that is their 'choice') you can visibly see a head, eyes, ears, body, spine, and the beginning of hands and feet. Scientists have tried, and failed, to come up with a specific date at which the fetus becomes human (therefore creating a date at which it is inhuman before that). There is no longer any scientific doubt as to whether a conception is human. Clearly abortion is killing. Feminism will never do women any good until we stop this evil thing. Abortion does not only kill babies, it hurts women. Over and over studies have shown that women who have had abortions wish that they had not. Many are seriously damaged both mentally and emotionally. Abortion also hurts women's bodies. Every abortion a woman has doubles her chance of premature birth with subsequent pregnancies. Abortion also damages the uterus and can make it impossible for a woman to conceive. Abortion is also implicated in some types of reproductive cancers. How can this be good for women?

This book, like much feminine work, also encourages a 'do what you wanna do' type philosophy. Anything that makes a woman feel good is no longer disallowed. Sex outside of marriage, working when you have small children, easy divorce, etc. The author's justifications for these things seem to be two-fold 1.The 'everyone else is doing it' mentality. Didn't our mothers teach us better than that? 2.Men have been getting away with it, so we should, too! I would like to hope that just because men do something that is wrong (like have sex outside of marriage) that this doesn't make it ok. Doing something bad, just because we can, doesn't help us. It only brings us down to their level.

Finally, one of the most disturbing things about this book is the question that isn't asked - What rights to children have? In the midst of battling so hard for women's rights (which is a good thing) we don't ask what right our children have. Don't children have a right to a safe development before birth? Don't children have a right to be cared for by their mothers, instead of by daycares and schools (which we know to be substandard at best, and dangerous at worst)? This book, in it's excellent quest for women's liberation, and it's horrible desire to free women from any sort of moral code or responsibility what-so-ever, NEVER stops to think about what children are entitled to expect. They are so unimportant that they are never mentioned. Whatever feminists think should be done with children, you cannot realistically address women's issues without addressing children's issues - they are inseparable!

I appreciate the work of the suffargists, the early feminists, and the later/current feminists as well. I even appreciate what Gloria Steinem and others of her ilk believe they are doing to 'help' women. But I am beginning to wonder if the time hasn't come to create a new word to replace feminist. A word that women like myself can use proudly, without the squirmy feeling that we are aligning ourselves with those who kill babies, toss out all morality, and have zero care for the rights of children. Until feminists like Gloria Steinem learn to hear these issues, many women will never be able to proudly call ourselves feminists. That is the real tradgedy of this book.

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