Abortion & Foucault/Althusser (Re: cop shows, postmodernism....)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Feb 10 05:24:51 PST 1999


"...the two slogans 'pro-choice' and 'right to life', both of which emanate from a liberalist discourse."

The question is as to the best strategy and tactics for eliminating the phrase "right to life" from respectable discourse. I would assume the first step is to simply ignore its existence. It is as silly to argue against it as it is to argue against the theory of spontaneous combustion. (See Dickens, *Bleak House*.) The opportunist slogan, "pro-choice," does indeed need to be attacked over and over again. Not only our arguments but our tone must continue to treat abortion as falling in the same category as anti-biotic shots (though they can be more morally ambiguous), fingernail trimming, etc.

Carrol



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