I'm pro-choice.
Jan. 23rd, 2007 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishThere's not much else that needs to be said, but why let that stop me.
The decision to terminate a pregnancy involves two people: the woman whose pregnancy it is, and Nobody Else.
Abortion clinic protesters and firebombers, and other such domestic terrorists acting in the name of saving unborn babies, would be better served attacking in vitro fertilization clinics. Of course, if they did that they wouldn't get to feel all superior by shaming the dirty sluts.
Not that the anti-choicers have any semblance of moral consistency in any case.
Really, the minute you make an exception "in cases of rape or incest" you've given up on the whole "it's a child not a choice" nonsense. Murder is murder; why are you punishing an unborn child for having a rapist for a father?
Ezra Klein is a smart guy. I'm happy to see him attack the "abortion is icky" thinking that pervades a great deal of pro-choice dialogue.
Happy anniversary, RvW. May you see many more.
The decision to terminate a pregnancy involves two people: the woman whose pregnancy it is, and Nobody Else.
Abortion clinic protesters and firebombers, and other such domestic terrorists acting in the name of saving unborn babies, would be better served attacking in vitro fertilization clinics. Of course, if they did that they wouldn't get to feel all superior by shaming the dirty sluts.
Not that the anti-choicers have any semblance of moral consistency in any case.
Really, the minute you make an exception "in cases of rape or incest" you've given up on the whole "it's a child not a choice" nonsense. Murder is murder; why are you punishing an unborn child for having a rapist for a father?
Ezra Klein is a smart guy. I'm happy to see him attack the "abortion is icky" thinking that pervades a great deal of pro-choice dialogue.
Happy anniversary, RvW. May you see many more.
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Date: 2007-01-24 03:59 am (UTC)Anyway, semi-related semi-anecdote. I don't know if Mrs. Martin was at TJ when you were, but GOD that woman was annoying. Converted to Catholicism and wouldn't shut up about it. We had a random, pick-your-topic project back in world history & geography [addit'l social studies requirement]. I chose the history of herbal/chemical contraceptives! She was like OKAY COULDN'T YOU PLEASE DO LIKE THE HISTORY OF INFERTILITY TREATMENTS INSTEAD, THAT IS COOL TOO RIGHT? But I stuck to my guns, so there.
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Date: 2007-01-24 02:49 pm (UTC)And good lord that woman sounds creepy. I don't think she was around when I was; I definitely never had her myself. But, wow.