The feminists are recoiling in horror. It seems that the "right" of abortion on demand, fought for and largely won during the past forty years, is now being used to selectively abort babies based on their sex. This article, from a publication in the U.K., cites this as an increasingly common practice among "some ethnic minorities — with boys being more highly prized than girls." Of course, this practice has been rampant in China, where abortions are also readily available, for quite a few years. If the current trend continues, then in a decade or two, the number of Chinese males will outnumber the females by millions.

The feminists are scrambling for some moral ground from which to denounce this practice. Vox Day notes that "the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) supported a resolution banning sex-selection abortions," stating "The range of violence against women and girls is devastating, occurring quite literally from womb to tomb. It includes: abortion of female babies."

Wait a second, what's this about "abortion of female babies"? Female babies? I thought they were fetuses, unliving tissue, part of the woman's body. When, and on what basis, did they become babies? What if the woman had aborted the fetus/baby prior to learning the results of the sex test, as many millions of women have done in the past thirty years? Why, then, say the feminists, she is exercising her "choice" to do as she pleases with "her body" -- and more power to her! You go, girl! But if the sex of the baby has been determined to be female, then abortion is "violence."

Unfortunately for the feminists, they can't have it both ways. Either abortion is "on demand," for any reason -- including a hideous, shameful, sexist preference for boys over girls -- or it isn't. And if it isn't, then people (other than Vox and me) are going to want to know why it isn't. And the best answer the feminists have is, "Because sometimes we don't like your reason for wanting an abortion." And that, I needn't point out, is not much of an answer.

The feminist case for abortion is seen to boil down to nothing more than, "We want what we want when we want it." This creed was expressed somewhat more eloquently as, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." This quotation comes from Aleister Crowley, an infamous occultist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Of course, when one considers the despicable nature of abortion, the connection between feminism and occultism is revealed to be rather less tenuous than might be initially supposed.