Three’s a Crowd
By As if further proof were required that the Fatherhood Movement is for idiots:
The “Reclaiming Fatherhood” conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Oak Brook, Illinois on September 8 and 9.
It will bring to light what Vicki Thorn, a lead conference organizer, describes as the “invisible” issue in our society and even within the Christian church: the profound effect that abortion has on fathers whose children are aborted.
Supreme Knight [of the Knights of Columbus] Carl Anderson also weighed in on the upcoming event.
“As an organization of lay men that has a strong history and commitment to life, we think it is very important to highlight the issues faced by those fathers whose children are aborted,” he told LifeNews.com.
“There are three victims of every abortion, the child and both of his or her parents, and it is our hope that this conference will be the beginning of a ministry within the Church to these fathers, who grieve the death of their unborn child in isolation and silence,” he explained.
Oh, please. If I understand anti-choice logic [sic] correctly, the presentation of women as “victims” of abortion dovetails with the assumption that their emotional fragility requires state intervention to prevent them from making decisions about their own reproductive health. That’s inane enough in its own right, as Scott’s often pointed out, since the argument usually cascades away from holding women accountable for what anti-choicers actually believe should be a crime. I suppose if men are victims, too, it makes sense to figure out how to relieve them as well of their culpability; after all, the underlying premise of “pro-life” morality would mean they’re accessories to murder, not the random victims of a “loss” — as if their toddlers had been felled by stomach cancer or clobbered by a school bus. But since the answer to all life’s questions is to regulate women’s sexual choice, I suppose that’ll do.