>The main point is that both excessive 'socialization' and excessive >'privatization' of reproductive health can be detrimental to women. >wojtek >From the themes and arguments of my numerous posts on the subject, it must be obvious that I am not advocating the 'privatization' of the kind you are implying here. Otherwise, why should I be concerned with the decline of abortion providers? To quote myself from one of the recent posts: <<To sum up, Petchesky argues for the use of the concept of self-ownership in a qualified sense: "owning our bodies depends integrally on having access to the social resources for assuring our bodies' health and well-being..." (Petchesky 403). In this sense, the idea of body as self-property may belong to a great political vocabulary fit for the Leftist use.>> I encourage the socialization of health *services*, but only in the sense of creating an environment which allows individual women to make decisions with ease and comfort. Instead of the punishment of 'bad pregnant women' (which is mostly self-defeating anyway), legislations and programs can be of enabling character. Marx & Engels wrote: ***** In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. ***** I'm glad that they aspired to have an association in which the *free development of each* is the *condition* for the free development of all. Yoshie
