either way, as you have it, all the confidence, uncertainty, torment, relief and sadness of all the people I know who've decided to terminate pregnancies - and I know a raft of people who've made that choice (not always feeling it was a choice), and for wildly divergent sets of reasons - was wasted emotional energy: their choice was either objectively right or objectively wrong and there's nothin' else to it.
and, on top of that, that intimate, personal, reproductive and bodily issue is certainly _just_ like that of international politics in a post-colonial, nationalist and neoliberal nuclear age... who could see it any other way, the personal is political after all, fer shur...
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:26 PM, James Heartfield < Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Well, I agree with Chris that hiding behind the holocaust is childish. But
> the fact that there is debate over moral choices does not indicate that
> there are no moral choices, on the contrary, it indicates that there are
> moral choices. There are indeed people who think that a woman's right to
> choose should be subordinate to that of her unborn child, just as there are
> people who think that the US should strike pre-emptively against Iran's
> nuclear programme, and they are either right, or they are wrong, whatever
> God has to say about it.
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