[lbo-talk] "I Had an Abortion"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>I have my differences with Yoshie, but that wasn't a piece of 
>>self-indulgent crap. Unless you think abortion is a trivial issue, 
>>which it isn't.
>
>No abortion is not trivial and I believe in a person's right to 
>choose but to have an abortion for no other reason than not wanting 
>the child  is trivialising abortion and life to the extent of 
>absurdity and contempt.
>
>Gary?
>ride si sapis

You have the right to your opinion, absurd, contemptible, and trivial 
as it is, but you do not have the right to impose your opinion on 
women.  Women have abortions for reasons of our own -- including 
self-indulgence of which women should be able to enjoy more in any 
event -- and whether you approve or disapprove of women's reasons for 
abortions is beside the point.

The beauty of the T-shirt is that it doesn't even bother to give any 
reason for abortion -- it simply announces the fact that the woman 
wearing it, like 30 million other American women, had an abortion.

It is women like me -- not men like you -- who can wear "I Had an 
Abortion" T-shirts in any case, and my posting is addressed primarily 
to fearless women (though fearless men can support Jennifer 
Baumgardner's documentary work in progress I Had an Abortion).

Feminist men, however, might make and wear T-shirts of their own: 
e.g., "I Had a Vasectomy" T-shirts.
-- 
Yoshie

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