Sad: The Reason This Self-Described “Feminist” Aborted Her Child Will Make You Weep

It's stuff like this that makes me not believe the pro-abortion crowd when they promise "Safe, Legal, and Rare."

The Daily Caller is reporting that a woman aborted her baby simply because he was a boy. No other reason – no health issues for the mother or the child. Just – the baby was a boy. According to the article, the mother (referred to only by her first name, Lana), is a self-described feminist and has traveled the country promoting feminist causes. She has had many run-ins with men that make her view all men as the enemy. And that view extended even to the baby she was pregnant with. Initially, Lana was looking forward to the birth of her child. But only if it was biologically a girl. But a boy? That's a different story – 

After researching all-girl daycares and schools with the plan to make sure that “No man will be around to hurt her progress, no boys there to demean her or call her names,” Lana got horrible news from her doctor – her baby had a penis.

 

She spent the next two days in fit of crying rage. How could this happen to her? She says, “My home became my prison and my fetus became my warden.”

 

Within a few days she had aborted the baby. “My body’s betrayal was no more, I was free, and for the first time since the airplane incident, I felt strong,” Lana claims. “I had done something positive, something that would actually make a difference, something good.”

 

Lana informs readers that she is now the mother of “a beautiful 1 year old female who will hopefully grow up to be just as strong and driven as her mother.”

Reading through this story, I feel awful for Lana. I feel awful for any woman who sees every man she meets as her enemy. It makes me wonder at my own life and the remarkable men that I have in my family and circle of friends. I have been blessed with many great examples of men who care about me and support me in everything I do. I can't imagine the terrible things that must happen to a person for them to believe that roughly half of the human population is out to cause them harm – even to the point of thinking that being pregnant with a male baby is oppression. That is some nuclear-grade hate.

I hear liberal feminists all the time claim that "feminism" is really all about equal rights for both men and women. Which sounds great! I'd totally sign up for that – but then I hear stories like Lana's. And I wonder if her fellow feminists will ever speak up for that baby boy and others like him who are judged and demeaned simply because they are born male. I know abortion is the holy grail for some of these people, but doesn't that baby boy deserve the right to live?

I get it – women were oppressed throughout history and women had to fight for basic rights. I now enjoy so many amazing opportunities because women fought for the chance to attend college and to vote and to own property and to make our own life choices. But just because women were demeaned and degraded in the past, does that mean that men have to be so now? And, yes, there are plenty of men who are misogynistic pigs who need a good kick upside the head. And there are plenty of women who, likewise, degrade and demean other women for the way they look, think, or act. You might have noticed that human beings have this odd tendency to treat each other like crap. But on the flip side, human beings also have a great capacity to be kind and good to each other (I've written about a few of these instances in my short time here at COTR – here's just one).

But I have to ask – how does this hatred of men make up for injustices against women? How does killing a baby boy make up for the fact that some jerk on a plane said something demeaning to Lana? It's the same prejudice and hate, simply redirected at someone else who – more often than not – does not deserve it. What does it accomplish, really? All it does is promote more hate and blame and degredation. Which, in the long run, helps precisely no one.

UPDATED: Turns out this story has been debunked – http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/abortedboy.asp