Mindspring censorship

[Carrol Cox]

Let's get some background here. The attack on the right to abortion
takes multiple forms, and for longer than I've been a marxist or even
involved in politics the form I've been most exposed to (through student
papers and class discussions) is the overwhelming feeling on the part of
a goodly majority of freshmen/sophomore women is their own feeling that
abortion *needs* to be defended, that it is a "big" decision, that the
"wrong decision" can haunt one all one's life, and so on and so forth.
And the causes here are 100% social, *not* psychological or juridical.
And not only the best way but perhaps even the only way to confront this
form of oppression is to mock it, to flame it, to enact contempt for it
-- through various kinds of *actions* (as opposed either to arguments or
"persuasions") to build up their courage. Any consent to rational debate
here is, as Yoshie says, demeaning to women, repressive to young women
especially. Our goal must be to make it shameful to doubt the legitimacy
of abortion or to even hint that perhaps the woman should have a
"reason."

The "right to choose" slogan was always an opportunist slogan, and as a
friend of mine once remarked, opportunism is seldom opportune.

Carrol