Yesterday was blog for choice day - but I guess I have a habit of posting too late for this kind of thing. Truth be told, I don’t know what to write too well.

Should be enough to say that women deserve the right to choose whther or not they’ll have children, because that sort of decision you’know would affect ‘er life. Important sort of stuff.
So I definetely beleive Roe vs Wade is a good thing, people should hve the right to determine what happens with their own bodies, and all that good stuff.

Still… I don’t know, I hear that black women in America were given forceful abortions and forceful sterilization,m and I think I’ve read the same sort of thing happened to Australian Aboriginals. Also, there are situations that happen like they did with Katie Thorpe, where her parents wanted to sterilize her ’cause she was disabled, and she shouldn’t have to deal with disability and motherhood at the same time.

Sterilization and abortion is great stuff when not forced on people without privilege, but when talking about reproductive health and choice I guess I want to mention that there are people who have had abortion and whatnot used against them, people who have not had free choice to have those things. So, when we focus on reproductive choices I don’t know, it would be good to talk about people who’ve had had them stripped away not just by not being able to have abortions when wanted and needed, but also who’ve had them forced on them.

*mumblyjumblynotgoodatwordsagain*

Abortion _is_ wonderful.

Just reading this: http://pinkofeministhellcat.typepad.com/pinko_feminist_hellcat/2005/07/aboriton_is_won.html

I found it pretty late, compared to all these other people, man, it sounds like stuff I was reading on Gaia two years ago. The people who were arguing for abortions, I imagine they got their arguments from threads like these, in blogs like these.

Anyway. There was a comment saying that abortion isn’t really wonderful, in the same way that bypass surgery isn’t really wonderful, but neither is terrible, and both should be legal.

Makes me think of the glass plaque we have up at uni with the quote from Reuben Carter on it. “Freedom is something that can be taken for granted, untill it is taken away.”

Heart bypass surgery is wonderful if it saves people, and taking it away would be terrible for people who need it. Heart bypass surgery gets a nil on the ‘wonderful’ factor because it’s something that can be taken for granted. If heart bypass surgery was taken away, I imagine people who need it would want it back, and people who were able to get it, who were saved by it, would consider it wonderful.

Abortion is wonderful. Many medical prodedures are, they save lives, they make lives easier, they help relieve suffering. That’s great!

Abortion is wonderful!

I’ve heard some anti-abortion arguments in my time, but this one is a doozy.

Abortion… hurts women. It victimizes women. It victimizes, and hurts women.

You wanna know why? Because women were created to love and nurture their children. Women were created to nurture their children, and, if for some reason they don’t want to nurture children, they’re not fufilling their purpose, and they’re being hurt. And victimized.
Women have one purpose in life, and if they for whatever reason do not fill it, they have lost value, and this hurts them. Get it, got it?

Now, I could see some pro-life shit saying this, but it seems that this argument is propgated by a group of pro-life feminists. “Feminists for life” they call themselves. If you agree with the sentiment that women are created to bear childrenYou can express it on a T-shirt

Alright. I’ve actually heard some decent arguments for pro-life feminism. I don’t agree with ‘em, but I’ve heard ‘em. One of them for example assigns personhood at conception, and counts ‘potential people’ as a class, just like women are a class, and by deciding if members in this class live or die, we’re subjugating them like men subjugate women. You can argue with this (and I do) but it’s at least trying to fit pro-life politics with feminist theory…

But: Women were created to love their babies? It sounds plain misogynist.

Wall of Protest from Planned Parenthood.

Hey guys, I just found out about the wall of protest. It’s a virtual wall where you can express outrage at America’s Federal Abortion Ban.

http://www.wallofprotest.com/

There was nothing in the terms and conditions that said I have to be an American Citizen, though there was no ‘other country’ state in the ones you have to pick from. I lied and said I was a Californian, because I wanted my image to be there.

Here’s what I made to put on the wall. This is me, before my hair went blue. <3
I edited this photo in good ‘ol photoshop.