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Twenty Questions — The Baby Killer Edition
Submitted by Feministe on Thu, 2006-03-09 19:06.
Reproductive Rights
Pollitt has it right:
As the nation passes the thirty-third anniversary of Roe, it is hard to find anyone who will say a good word in public for abortion rights, let alone for abortion itself. Abortion has become a bit like flag-burning–something that offends all right-thinking people but needs to be legal for reasons of abstract principle (”choice”). Unwanted pregnancy has become like, I don’t know, smoking crack: the mark of a weak, undisciplined person of the lower orders.
Somewhere (probably as the Dems lost control of the federal government), abortion became the public policy no-no — we’ll keep it in the books on principle, just as long as nobody actually has to exercise that right. Meanwhile, the Santorum wing of the Republican party sets the rules of the game.
Molly set up a questionairre for the pro-life folks out there and has yet to have any of them answered by anyone who calls themselves “pro-life.” Consider this your call to duty.
Since many of the people commenting on that other post are referring to “murder” in one form or another, here are some questions for those of you who claim to believe that abortion is murder, and that all women who receive them are “murdering their babies.”
1) Should women who abort get life sentences in prison and/or the death penalty?
2) If a woman’s husband knows she is aborting, should he be charged as an accessory to murder?
3) How about her friends who know?
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greyweirdo:http://www.blogsheroes.com/feed/twentyquestionsthebabykilleredition
Twenty Questions — The Baby Killer Edition
Submitted by Feministe on Thu, 2006-03-09 19:06.
Reproductive Rights
Pollitt has it right:
As the nation passes the thirty-third anniversary of Roe, it is hard to find anyone who will say a good word in public for abortion rights, let alone for abortion itself. Abortion has become a bit like flag-burning–something that offends all right-thinking people but needs to be legal for reasons of abstract principle (”choice”). Unwanted pregnancy has become like, I don’t know, smoking crack: the mark of a weak, undisciplined person of the lower orders.
Somewhere (probably as the Dems lost control of the federal government), abortion became the public policy no-no — we’ll keep it in the books on principle, just as long as nobody actually has to exercise that right. Meanwhile, the Santorum wing of the Republican party sets the rules of the game.
Molly set up a questionairre for the pro-life folks out there and has yet to have any of them answered by anyone who calls themselves “pro-life.” Consider this your call to duty.
Since many of the people commenting on that other post are referring to “murder” in one form or another, here are some questions for those of you who claim to believe that abortion is murder, and that all women who receive them are “murdering their babies.”
1) Should women who abort get life sentences in prison and/or the death penalty?
2) If a woman’s husband knows she is aborting, should he be charged as an accessory to murder?
3) How about her friends who know?
( Read more... )
