abortion

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 11 08:43:34 PDT 2002


C. G. Estabrook wrote:


>If the Left continues to draw out the implication of its principles, it
>will discover the marginalization of the unborn and unwanted as for
>example it discovered the marginalization of women in the first and second
>waves of feminism in the 19th and 20th centuries.

For most of human history, including most of Catholic Church history, no one thought there was anything problematic about abortion. It wasn't until a 19th century pope and a U.S. medical lobby keen to professionalize its previously sleazy reputation that it became an issue. The "seamless garment" crowd is pretty tiny, and it's generally reactionary anti-feminist individuals and socieites that oppose abortion. So you can try to turn opposition to abortion into a progressive stance, but it ain't gonna take.

Doug



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list