<DIV>this may have been said before, but as a slogan, why not something that ties into choice, like "I made the right choice," since "pro-choice" is the slogan that really resonates with people; when it's put in that context, a lot of undecided people come on board, especially Catholics and/or Republicans, from my experience. It's an all-American word.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><I>Diane Monaco <dmonaco@pop3.utoledo.edu></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Carrol Cox wrote:<BR><BR>> . That social pressure kills women all the time. It killed my first wife.<BR><BR><BR>Yes indeed, social pressure kills women all the time and has done so<BR>throughout history. Abortion exists, not because we now have laws that make<BR>it legal, but because of the norms/constraints/controls put on women by our<BR>patriarchal system (social pressure/norms). These patriarchal values make<BR>abortion necessary and a fact of life. Nearly all reasons for "choosing" to<BR>terminate an unwanted pregnancy really go back to some ludicrous patriarchal<BR>value that seeks to control the sexuality and reproductive freedom of women.<BR>I'm sure attempts to terminate unwanted pregnancies (abortion) have existed<BR>for nearly as long as the values/institutions that have evolved around<BR>patriarchal attempts to control sexuality/reproduction.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Women have "chosen" to risk their lives (during periods of poverty, war,<BR>disease, famine) to follow through with a "wanted" pregnancy (childbirth is<BR>at least 10 times more risky than abortion in general and during adverse<BR>times considerably more risky; in Ethiopia 1 in 7 women will die in<BR>childbirth)...but social (patriarchal) norms would hardly take issue with<BR>that "choice."<BR><BR><BR><BR>Put an unjust control in place...desperate attempts will be made to<BR>circumvent that control...if needed, new and improved controls will be put<BR>in place...but again ways around those new controls will be frantically<BR>sought...and so on until we have one big screwed-up system. Lots of social<BR>pressure that kills.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Abortion won't go away until the patriarchal values that make it necessary<BR>go away.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Diane<BR><BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!?<br> Yahoo! Hotjobs: <a href="http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/hotjobs/mail_footer_email/evt=21482/*http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus">Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes</a>