Fiorella Nash, a writer and bioethicist who has spent over ten years researching pro-life and pro-woman issues from a feminist perspective, has written a hard-hitting book which should be read by every woman who calls herself a feminist. Titled The Abolition of Woman: How Radical Feminism is Betraying Women (Ignatius Press), it analyses every form of female exploitation and rebuts the dishonest arguments used to bolster them – whether it is abortion, forced sterilisation, gendercide, reproduction that is outsourced to impoverished Third World women or prostitution.
I ask Fiorella why she calls herself a “pro-life feminist”. Isn't this a contradiction in terms? She agrees that she would have thought so when she first came across the term. Indeed, she had once denounced contemporary feminism – only for a reader to send her a book of essays on pro-life feminism “which radically challenged my attitudes and convinced me that there is such a thing as pro-life feminism.”
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