Does Abortion Guarantee Gender Equality?

I noticed this sequence of tweets from The Corporation. The abortion industrial complex and their listservs are nurturing the idea that abortion is a pre-requisite for gender equality.

THIS. → Gender equality is not possible without abortion: https://t.co/oomvsAREmR @TheNation @KathaPollitt

— NARAL (@NARAL) November 4, 2015

...and...

Gender Equality Is Not Possible Without Abortion https://t.co/9UWtkLlw3d by @KathaPollitt via @thenation

— RH Reality Check (@rhrealitycheck) November 2, 2015

Both tweets link to a Katha Pollitt article in The Nation. Pollitt is aiming for her third star in The Corporation, and it is not possible to attain such heights without asserting that pro-life advocates want to make all abortion illegal. That's demagoguing the issue, and with the rising number of abortions done with medication, impossible to control.

Anyway it's worth thinking about what, exactly, makes gender equality possible. Certainly, a woman who is able to delay motherhood gains the freedom to pursue career goals. But there are lots of ways to delay motherhood without abortion. Anyone who suggests abstinence is ridiculed off the stage. However, abstinence is just one piece of keeping sex in the realm of the procreative and sacred.

Adoption is another way to delay motherhood. It is curious to see an article intended as an olive branch to the opposition, not even mention adoption. Who will take care of these children? Americans will! Americans are the most generous society on earth. In fact, I will share with the reader that I had a dream two nights ago where I went with my wife to the adoption center, and we longed so much for a child to love, that we were going to take home an older child. The demand is out there!

But what I really wanted to think about is the issue of gender equality. Abortion may facilitate gender equality, but only in the short run, and then, only on a micro level. Because gender equality is really a political and cultural issue. Women having the power to vote is the true source of gender equality.

Abortion has consequences for political power. Demographics is destiny. Western women who delay motherhood are lowering their aggregate fertility. The result is diminishing political power, and eventually, replacement by a faster-reproducing population.

Maybe the faster-producing population will share the same political values, and maybe they won't. The consequences in the United States will be somewhat delayed, because we are a constitutional republic. But all the democracies in Europe are parliamentary. The invading population won't need outright majorities to affect the political process.

What does The Corporation think will happen to "gender equality" when European countries reach critical mass of Muslim immigrants? The choices available to women might have been a two-or-three generation anomaly. Enjoy it while it lasts.