I said something like the following:
A woman might have an abortion:
--because she was raped --because she is too ill to have a baby --because the foetus is too damaged to survive or having some desired quality of life --because it might ruin her figure --because it interferes with her career --because she can't afford to feed another child --because she cheated on her husband and it will be apparent whose kid this is --because she'll lose her job if she gets pregnant --because she's too old to have a child --because she's too young to have a child --because the foetus is the "wrong" sex etc.
There are as many "reasons" to abort a child as there are to have one. Some of these reasons are acceptable to some; some are not. As absurd as the reason is, right now, allowing anyone to decide other than the mother is a second-best solution. Therefore the mother must decide. To say that no matter what the reason for the abortion, the mother must "rightfully" feel pride or self-empowerment or grief or anger or whatever is absurd. That's what I'm saying.
Joanna
snit snat wrote:
> At 03:40 PM 8/1/2004, joanna bujes wrote:
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>> NO. A foetus is not a polyp.
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> I think you're now insisting that there be one way to feel about
> abortion. It's not ok for Carrol and Yoshie to conceive this way.
> Thus, you want to delimit the acceptable range of opinion on the
> topic. It's really none of your business and, if they want to wear
> tee-shirts that express such sentiments, it's not your business
> either. Don't like abortion? Don't have one. Don't like the tee shirt?
> Don't wear one. They want to make room for being allowed to feel that
> way to begin with. Instead, what they are treated to is moral repulsion.
>
> Yoshie, Carrol, and others do not share your religious world view--and
> both you and DP believe in some sort of greater spirituality or
> something. You shouldn't expect others to believe in it and, in turn,
> insist that they view fetuses as undead babies to be mourned or
> agonized over or treated as something more than polyps. Nor should
> they be told that their position isn't moral. It is moral.
>
>> It IS a moral decision allbeit one that a woman must make.
>>
>> Your position and Yoshie's on this issue is simply repulsive to me.
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> "We're in a fucking stagmire."
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> --Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos'
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