#Metoo doesn’t protect unborn child
Alyssa Milano has been a very busy girl this past month.
First, she triggered that whole #metoo movement, inviting women to share their pain at being harassed, abused, annoyed or simply inconvenienced by those inconsiderate men.
She wasn’t the originator of the whole trend, but she put a celebrity face to the crisis, and we all know how celebrities make the best victims.
In social media parlance, it was a smash-tag.
And then, because she’s always on the lookout for bandwagons to jump on, she tweeted about that poor undocumented alien who wanted to deport her baby from her uterus.
In other words, “Jane Doe” wanted an abortion, and the big bad U.S. government was trying to keep her from destroying the child within her.
So the ACLU got involved, and went to a judge, who held that the Department of Justice had no right to prevent this 17-year-old girl from destroying her unborn baby.
Well, I’m certain the legal briefs didn’t frame it that way. They probably said something about “right to privacy” and “fetus,” because abortion supporters don’t like the messy words that echo the truth of the act. It’s not a pomegranate that’s being cut out of a woman’s womb. It’s a human life.
But they don’t like to hear that, those devotees of science.
Neither, apparently, did the court.
It ruled in favor of letting the unwilling mother get her abortion.
As soon as she could, the girl who came knocking at our door for freedom and a new life, rushed right out and destroyed the life of a future U.S. citizen. See Jane run. Some people were so very worried that Jane would be forced to honor that child’s inalienable right to life.
One of those people was our busy little Alyssa, who flew back to twitter before Jane aborted her baby, and tweeted the following:
“Preventing an immigrant woman from getting an abortion is a war on women, immigrants, and children. #JusticeForJane.”
That tweet garnered 4,300 “likes,” even before Jane’s baby was lying in some abortion clinic’s waste bin.
When I saw the tweet, I threw my IPhone against the wall (don’t worry, it has a crash-proof cover) and retrieved it to tweet back at her:
“I am disgusted with you, lady. I do immigration law, and frankly, you don’t know a damn thing about the ‘war on women.’ Take your Hollywood privilege and shut up, disappear.”
My tweet received six “likes,” approximately 4,294 less than Alyssa’s.
That is because in this society, people are much more willing to care about some movie star who says she was attacked by a producer but never stood up to him in the past and then got an Oscar because of it (if the shoe fits, Gwyneth …) than they are about an innocent child.
As I said last week, I’m not a fan of the #metoo campaign, because it encourages us to believe that the waitress who got winked at or propositioned by the guy who wanted more than his eggs over easy is the same as a woman who has been raped and left for dead. It gathers up a multitude of sins in one easy and reusable hashtag.
I am really disgusted with these folk, who pee on our shoes and tell us it’s raining.
Do they really believe that we buy this whole fallacy that trying to give a pregnant teen who seeks haven in this country alternatives to aborting her child, one she might have welcomed under different circumstances, is an assault on immigrant women?
I do immigration, I do asylum, and I have handled cases where other countries have forced women to abort their children. I know what the real war on immigrant women looks like.
That’s why I find it to be the height of arrogance to even suggest that fighting to convince an immigrant woman to bear her child, one who would have been a citizen, is an aggression. It is the twisted vision of the Handmaid’s Tale.
But we live in Alyssa’s world, now, where stupidity is taken for wisdom.