by Petra Wallenmeyer, J. C. Beichner
Human Defense Initiative
What defines an expert? Teen Vogue recently published a piece clearly stating young women ages 17-24 are experts when it comes to abortion and reproductive rights. Yet expertise in a subject or specific field, especially when it comes to your physical and mental health and the life of a child, deserves a second opinion. Here is ours.
Merely experiencing an event does not make you an expert on the event. Experts are, by general definition, people who display special skills or knowledge in a specific area, domain, or subject. Expertise is not developed overnight. Knowledge, wisdom, and tenure come from years of study, life experience, reflection, and truth-seeking.
Free expression and the cult of personality developed and exploited by the mainstream media, Planned Parenthood, and those seeking leverage for political expediency do not make experts.
Youth Testify, as featured in the aforementioned article, seeks to create activists of young girls, most under the age of 18 years old, who recently had abortions (some more than one), before they even have an opportunity to absorb and process their experience.
Youth Testify is trying to stretch the definition of “expert.” Not only are they trying to convince people that teens and young adults are experts based on limited experience alone, but they are also trying to stretch experience on a very specific event—abortion—into expertise on a very broad topic—reproductive health. In any definition or connotation of the word “expert,” this attempt is unconvincing at best and harmful at worst.
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