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Pro-Choice radical feminists give their money
Nathan Tabor
“Money is the Mother’s Milk of politics.”
That sage snippet of conventional wisdom has survived the test of time because — as anyone who has been around politics for very long can attest — it is manifestly and demonstrably true. The agenda that succeeds is the agenda that has the cash.
Unfortunately, a corollary is also true: “Pro-life mothers are refusing to nurse their starving babies.” What? Why, that’s outrageous! How dare they . . . ?
WAIT! I’m speaking metaphorically, of course — in the sense that far too many of those who loudly talk the pro-life talk, don’t very faithfully walk the pro-life walk. At least, not where their charitable dollars are concerned.
It is also conventional wisdom that what you really value is what you are willing to spend your money on. If we really and truly believed in saving innocent lives, we would spend a lot more of our money trying to do so. You can say anything you want. But where you spend your dollars will show just where your priorities really are.
It's high time for professing pro-lifers to put their money where their mouths are. The sad fact is, the radical feminist pro-abortion crowd is outspending pro-lifers by a margin of about 70 to 1. We can see this contrast plainly by comparing two PACs that focus on women: the Leftwing, pro-abortion
EMILY's List and the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List. These two organizations have as their goal electing to office women who support their respective but opposite agendas.
EMILY's List is primarily a political funding network, founded in 1985 by Ellen Malcolm and financed primarily by Liberals from Hollywood, that exists both to elect pro-choice Democratic women to office and to train the next generation of “progressive” feminist activists in the nuts and bolts of effective campaigning.
These leftist Hollywood types, for all their ideological flaws, do have a firm grasp on one obvious political reality that so many conservatives often seem to miss. EMILY is an acronym that stands for Early Money Is Like Yeast. It makes the bread rise later.
The Susan B. Anthony List, named after the famous early suffragette who pioneered the struggle for women’s rights but who also hated abortion with a passion, is a political action committee dedicated to helping pro-life women gain election to Congress.
It was founded in 1992 (during the so-called Year of the Woman) to correct a terrible imbalance: of all the women serving in Congress then, all but two were pro-abortion feminists. (www.sba-list.org.)
Last year, Susan B. Anthony took in a meager $484,324 and disbursed $360,742. The PAC now has roughly $171,310 cash on hand. By contrast, EMILY's List took in over $34 MILLION during the same period and disbursed $34,175,207 to fund their pro-abortion agenda. Their PAC still has $402,153 in cash on hand.
When we consider these numbers in the context of the aforementioned “Mother’s Milk” scenario, we can see clearly why Roe v Wade has not been overturned yet, and is not likely to be in the foreseeable future.
Now, just to be fair, we might throw the National Right to Life Committee into the equation. They help both men and women. NRL took in $4,212,966 and disbursed $4,168,452, and has $257,577 in cash on hand. Better, but that still leaves them $30 MILLION behind EMILY — and that doesn’t even count all the other pro-abortion organizations out there.
Conservatives, Christians, pro-life activists . . . SHAME ON US! We CAN and
MUST do better than we have been doing. And, if we really believe all those slogans we proclaim, we will.
Nathan Tabor is a conservative political activist based in Kernersville, North Carolina. He has his BA in Psychology and his Master’s Degree in Public Policy. He is a contributing editor at www.theconservativevoice.com. Contact him at
Nathan@nathantabor.com.
BrookesNews.Com
Monday16 May 2005