“She glances down at the members of Parliament strolling in across the pea-green carpet below. Suits, bald heads, and shoes shinier than mirrors. The men who never in their lives had to worry about getting pregnant, dying in childbirth, or trying to access an abortion within their own restrictive system.” Looking for Jane, Heather …
Category: abortion
Apr 12
Eggs and Chicken and Abortion
(thanks to Dead Wild Roses https://deadwildroses.com/2023/03/05/the-dwr-sunday-religious-disservice-eggs/)
Nov 21
“If you can’t trust me with a choice …
how can you trust me with a child?”
brilliant bumper sticker from The Onion
Aug 09
Dawkins (and Monty Python) on the ‘human potential’ argument against abortion
“[T]he logical conclusion to the ‘human potential’ argument [against abortion] is that we potentially deprive a human soul of the gift of existence every time we fail to seize any opportunity for sexual intercourse. Every refusal of any offer of copulation by a fertile individual is, by this dopey ‘pro-life’ logic, tantamount to the murder …
Aug 09
A(nother) reason for abortion
“She .. had three abortions, because the men did not seem to her to be originally enough minted from the human stock to make their progeny worthwhile.” Doris Lessing, Shikasta
We should keep that reason in mind next time asked to justify an abortion.
May 26
Policing the Womb, Michele Goodwin
Recommended!
A few quotes and notes:
“… pregnancy as a proxy for punishment …” (p.x)
But only for the women, even though the men are mostly responsible for causing the pregnancy (males have 100% control over ejaculation in a vagina; females have no control over whatsoever over ovulation and very seldom force a man to …
Oct 25
Marianne LeNabat on Abortion
“Nowhere in Alito’s entire decision would you ever get a glimmer of why women actually seek out abortion.”
“That abortion happens later for one of two reasons: because of how difficult it is, geographically and financially, to access abortion sooner. Or because severe and often life-inhibiting abnormalities can only be reliably detected later. We are …
Jun 01
A great idea from Jodi Taylor
“Helen and I watched a short film about childbirth and it was so gruesome we had to turn it off. She had a stiff drink, I had a cup of tea, and we swore we’d never have sex again.” Jodi Taylor, The Long and Short of It (p181)
But yes! That should be mandatory …
Feb 05
excerpts from MacKinnon’s Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws
I’ve just finished reading yet another MacKinnon book, Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws, and as usual, it’s absolutely brilliant. The book is well worth a complete read; I paste below some perfect gems.
(My used copy is marked DISCARD by the Porter County Library system. In itself, telling. Sigh.)
Reading this now. It’s heavy-going, but well …
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Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
Writing as Chris Wind
