Letters to the Editor
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what happened to the "choice" part of "pro-choice?"
I find it hypocritical that so many people like Ms. Mieszkowski who believe that women's choice is limited to the right to choose to terminate a pregnancy, as opposed to carry one to term. How ridiculous it is for a person who allegedly believes that whether to have a child or not is a woman's "right," and yet gives the nod to the Chinese government's policy, which asserts that childbirth is a privilege accorded to women by a state. That state is run almost entirely by men who were raised in a society in which female fetuses are considered inferior. Why do they consider female fetuses inferior? Because they consider women inferior. How does this get a pass from American feminists? Because within the pro-choice movement is a movement that is actually "pro-abortion," in that they actually want more abortions, so long as the people having them are poor.
Either choice is a "right," or it is not. If the Chinese government has a right to order women to have abortions, the US government certainly has the right to tell them not to.