Susan Guzzi wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:56:56 -0800 (PST) From: Susan Guzzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am so tired of morals and ethics being flashed about and influencing what goes on in a woman's body the past 15 or 20 years! It goes right back to our early battle cries; My Body My Choice, It's a woman's right to choose, etc. Anything that is living off of my body, or a sister's is COMPLETELY in her jurisdiction. We used to say things like this back then, but somehow we've let ourselves be shamed by anti-abortionists, the right wing, religious leaders, the media and others. But I wonder why those same people are such supporters of the death penalty!
100%!!! I couldn't agree more. I ask: when will we stop considering women (and children alike) as property or commodities? It just amazes me that some men still think that choice to abort a pregnancy is any of their business or that we even have the capacity to appreciate the depths of personal circumspection such a decision inherently evokes in the woman. If men claim to desire freedom for women then it behooves us to trust their ability to make such decisions without having to consider the pandering of the patriarchal concerns for control and ownership that pervade most western cultures as a given. And to my mind, as a subset of that proposition, women as a group should know better than to assume they can fully appreciate the circumstances which might influence the individual woman's choice to abort a pregnancy or not. Nothing is more precious than choice. Lose respect for that and you imprison everyone, especially yourself. cul
