Abortion and Nazism
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[edit] Arguments for the link
[edit] Rush Limbaugh
The conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh coined the term "feminazi," defining it this way:
That Mr. Limbaugh is missing the entire point of radical feminism can probably be agreed upon even by anti-feminists. Whether the comparison of abortion with the actions of the Nazis holds water is a separate question.
[edit] Refutations
Before accepting the parallel between abortion and the Holocaust, one should keep these points in mind:
- The Nazis were opposed to abortion. Weimar-era Germany was, for its time, fairly liberal on the abortion question.[2] In 1939, the Nazis brought in laws that did away with this permissiveness, flatly forbidding except for eugenic purposes and by Jews.[3]
- The Holocaust was a genocide. In these days, the Holocaust is less objected to for its large body count than for the fact that it was a genocide, or, as the United Nations says, an explicit attempt to destroy a nation, ethnicity, or race, or practitioners of a religion. Not only do fetuses do not form any such group, but they are not even being targeted on the basis of being fetuses.
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Limbaugh, Rush. The Way Things Ought to Be, pp.193,296.
- ↑ http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/air/air_vol16no1_2001.html
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=gQLqRd7hJq0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false