Dear DNC: Abortion Isn’t Empowering. It Turns Women Into Bullies

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The Federalist:

Dear DNC: Abortion Isn’t Empowering. It Turns Women Into Bullies

In a moment of truly blinding irony, NARAL’s president called for Americans to elect Hillary Clinton as president so she could stand against bullies.

By Holly Scheer JULY 29, 2016

The Democratic National Convention made history for women this week. No, I’m not referring to Hillary Clinton receiving the nomination, making her the first woman to be running for president for a major political party. I’m talking about Ilyse Houge, the president of NARAL. She shared with the nation that not only does she champion abortion rights, she has had an abortion for nonmedical reasons. Since Hogue missed a basic tenet of ethics, I will spell it out for her: destroying the weak is not strength.

 

Hogue, and her organization, would disagree. National Abortion Rights Action League Pro-Choice America (known as NARAL) is a political activist nonprofit centered on expanding abortion access. Since 1969 they have been fighting for what they call a woman’s right to choose—that is, to select abortion whenever, wherever, and for whatever reason. The Democratic Party has similarly supported abortion, with policy changes and varying degrees of emphasis, since the 1976 DNC.