A MINNEAPOLIS WOMAN has set up a website to take reader input on whether she and her husband should abort their 17-week-old fetus. According to The Daily Mail, she is upfront about why she has difficulty with the idea of motherhood:

‘I’m not convinced that I want to change the status quo. I feel that as I age I’ve actually gotten more selfish and set in my ways…

‘I’m afraid that I will eventually regret starting a family and “settling down”, as they say. ‘I fear that the constant pressure to be the perfect wife and mother while maintaining a full-time job will eventually cause my brain to implode and lead to a nervous breakdown.’

This website is sick and perverse, so sick and perverse one is inclined to consider it a hoax. Assuming it is real, the woman’s argument, while obviously not justification for abortion, is revealing. In her mind, she has never been prepared for motherhood. How can she really be a mother? It is too fantastic for her to envision given her masculine existence. She is rare in having gone to such disturbing lengths to deliberate on her pregnancy, but she is not rare in her worldview. 

Throughout America, churches fight tirelessly against abortion. At the same time, they rarely acknowledge the underlying cause of most abortion: the defeminization of the modern woman. A woman is not a machine. She is not a breeding machine or a non-breeding machine. She is a human being. It is not reasonable for society to deny that motherhood has worth and then turn around and scold the woman who says motherhood for her has no meaning. Mainstream Christianity has fully supported the sexual egalitarianism that has ripped the soul and purpose out of motherhood. The fact that many women have supported this does not make it right.

Now before a Christian feminist writes to me and tells me that Christian feminists do not deny the importance of motherhood but recognize that women are more than mothers, let me just say: You can’t have it both ways. You can’t exalt both male and female achievement for a woman at the same time. There are limits to the human mind and its purposes. It is not possible to strive for contradictory ends. Androgyny is inherently schizophrenic. It destroys the mind with a sea of contradictions. Androgyny, as this woman senses, causes mental illness.

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