Feminists give others no choice

Herald Sun (14-03-00)

Sheryl Underwood’s claim that “Feminism is about choice” (Herald Sun, March 10) causes us to give a hollow laugh.

The founder of modern feminism, Simone de Beauvoir, stated categorically that women should not be given the economic choice of staying home and being mothers because “too many would make that choice”.

This view was endorsed by Australia’s home grown feminist, Elizabeth Reid, then-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s first women’s adviser, who said in an interview that she opposed the idea of a homemaker’s allowance because too many women would choose to stay home and be mothers.

Contemporary feminism’s path to “equality” is based on the right to terminate the lives of their unborn children. In this process feminists concede no rights to the unborn, or to fathers and husbands or grand parents, even if these close relatives are willing to care for the child as soon as it is born.

Feminists display a total dog in the manger attitude—they do not want the baby but they would sooner terminate its life than let anyone else have it.

While feminists demand that the government fund childcare for career women, they oppose equivalent payments being given to mothers who choose to care for their children at home.

Feminists are totally focused on the narrow set of choices they imagine will advance their own interests.

Babette Francis, national and overseas co-ordinator, Endeavour Forum