[lbo-talk] abortion poll

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/9/07, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> John wrote:
> >I see that Doug has clarified his
> > >> position to mean he opposes the phrase as a slogan of some sort. I
> > >> don't however know if the idea makes him uncomfortable or not. I can
> > >> think of no good reason it should.
> > >>
> > > OK. What about a woman who is eight months pregnant and she starts
> > > hearing voices, perhaps God's, telling her to have an abortion.
> > >> ??
> >
> > > Joanna
> >
> >Unquestionably she gets to have an abortion.
>
> I think you're changing the subject.  You said you can think of no
> good reason the idea of abortion for the hell of it should make
> someone uncomfortable.  Joanna responded by providing an, admittedly
> extreme, example of a complicated scenario that could give one pause.

I don't know of any religion whose God _tells a woman to have_
abortion at eight months (though there are religions that tell women
not to have abortion for any reason or only for a few valid reasons),
and probably none exists in the world.

If Joanna is talking about the case of women who are mentally ill,
rather than religious, well, that's a matter of disability rights.
Mentally and physically disabled women have often been denied sexual
rights and freedoms as well as reproductive rights and freedoms.  What
do leftists think about that discrimination against the disabled?
-- 
Yoshie
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