Wade institutionalized is simply not compatible with the ideas of nonviolence and children's rights that Hooks claims to uphold.When intellectual work emerges from a concern with radical social and political change, when that work is directed to the needs of the people, it brings us into greater solidarity and community. Most pointedly of all, feminists have failed at "placing it on equal footing with male violence against women" (Hooks 63). These preborn children "have no organized collective voice to speak the reality of how often they are the objects of female violence" (Hooks 63). It makes children "property of their parents to do with as they will" (Hooks 73). It involves initiating violence (usually by dismemberment or poisoning) against a victim simply because the victim is weaker than the aggressor (Hooks 61). When we recognize the humanity of our own offspring, we can look at Hooks' writing and actually see that abortion fits under her own definition of patriarchal violence. She states that historically feminists have not placed female violence against children on equal footing with male violence against women (63). She claims that violence against children is just as wrong as violence against women, and it is on this point that Hooks is rather critical of her fellow feminists. Hooks even condemns what would be considered minor corporal punishments of children, like pinching (74).
She goes on to explain that the phenomenon of female violence against children is another example of patriarchal violence, in which someone initiates violence against another human simply because the victim is physically weaker than the oppressor (62). Hooks however makes it clear that patriarchal violence is not limited to male-on-female violence.
Thus the roots of violence are sexist power structures within families (Hooks 66). Hooks supports her argument by explaining that the philosophic justification used for "domestic violence" (she prefers to call it "patriarchal violence") is the patriarchal idea that those who have more strength have the right to initiate violence against those who are physically weaker than them (61).
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