March 17, 2005
The core issue of any debate over abortion
by Liza Sabater
Would you rather reduce unintended pregnancies, reduce abortions, and reduce sexually transmitted diseases while protecting the health of women and men, or do you want to deliberately increase unintended pregnancies, increase abortions, increase sexually transmitted diseases and harm the health of women and men in order to punish them for having sex?
Posted by Liza Sabater in Abortion, Body, Culture War, Feminism, George Lakoff, Health, Language, Motherhood, Parenting, Progressive Libertarianism, Reproductive Rights, Rhetoric, Sexual Politics
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Sing it, sister. Amen to this. I think it's time to talk about why the right wing hates the human body.
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Comment by: spyder at March 17, 2005 02:59 PM
One of the points i always made in my classrooms to students who demanded to know my position on abortion, was that i found the entire political aspect of the discussion to be classist and racist. Laws, such as those proposed to overturn Roe, are designed to deny opportunities to people who are for the most part poor, receive below living wage incomes, or incapable of accessing quality health care. The rich and wealthy, who are almost all white, would always have access, by their own choosing, to legal services that are going to be denied to everyone else under these laws. This is something the 14th Amendment specifically prohibits.
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Comment by: lorraine at March 17, 2005 09:41 AM