I read in the paper last week a fascinating article by a woman named Naomi Wolfe. She is an unabashed, avowed, feminist. The title of the article was: "A call for truth." The byline of the article was: "Pro-choice advocates should defend abortion honestly, says a prominent feminist author." I want to share with you just a part of this article:
At its best feminism defends its moral high ground by being simply faithful to the truth to women's real-life experiences. But to its own ethical and political detriment, the Pro-choice Movement has relinquished the moral frame around the issue of abortion. It has ceded the language of right and wrong to abortion foes.
Such a position causes us to lose political ground. By refusing to look at abortion within a moral framework, we lose the mi…