MSNBC Round 2: Young Women, Personhood and the Rest of What I Wanted to Say

With Chrystia Freeland, U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times.

Yay! Dylan let me make my points – sort of. He seems genuinely intrigued and open to hearing what I had to say. And how about Chrystia dragging out ye olde “15-year-old rape victim!” argument?

Yep Chrystia – even those babies deserve to be recognized as persons under the law.

This is about human rights and ending injustice and inequality! – goals most people would say are praiseworthy. You don’t often find someone who would say “No, Katie – I don’t think all human beings deserve human rights.” Yet that is exactly what Chrystia was doing. That position is ridiculous, illogical, unscientific and evil. Let’s get indignant!

The ‘Me Generation’ paradigm of self-centered egoism is out. We’ve found it cold and empty. It’s neutered us and crippled interaction between men and women. A resounding “no, thank you!” from today’s thinking young women.

Maybe this is the reason the pro-life movement by and large is run by women under 30. Think Lila Rose, Kristi Burton, Stephanie Gray, Joy Yearout and Kristin Hawkins.

It’s not just about me anymore. That’s the difference between the new generation of young women and the older feminist movement.

Looking from the outside in, today’s young women have a choice.

We can embrace the “It’s All About Me, Damn It!” selfishness of a modern feminist movement that spends its time throwing birth control and condoms at us – tools (we’re learning the hard way) of controlling us.

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We can embrace the way God made us and fight for personhood – an honest, logical movement for justice. Realizing and affirming our nature as women and exploring what that means in our daily lives – not through inward naval gazing, but through genuinely giving, receiving and fighting for truth, justice and love.

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