Choosing (Again).
Jan. 22nd, 2008 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sechan19It's that time of the year again.
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in this country. Since that decision, abortion rights have been under constant threat of revoke and pro-choice activists have been vigilant in the maintenance of a strong front against such attacks. To write a lucid history of the ups and downs since Roe v. Wade would take more time than I have to give at the moment, and so I will post some links at the end of this.
For the 35th anniversary, pro-choice organizations have asked bloggers to answer the question: Why do you vote pro-choice?
My reasons for doing so are perhaps more simple, more narrow, more about me than most civil-minded activists, but I will give them honestly. I vote pro-choice because I believe that no one but a woman has the right to make a decision about whether or not a woman should give birth. I believe that most people who oppose abortion secretly oppose it on the grounds that it gives women too much freedom--freedom to act like men; to fuck who they want, when they want, where they want, and have no consequences. The attempt to control a woman's right to choose is about more than "life," more than "conception," more than "god." It's also about "misogyny," also about "patriarchy," also about "no bitch is gonna tell me."
And I will fight those viewpoints, and their various tools and means of expression, till my last breath. The first stage in the fight is voting, and so I vote pro-choice. I pray I always will.
Links:
35 Years After Roe (CNN.com) A general summary of what has happened since the supreme court decision; unbiased for the most part.
Love with the Proper Stranger (Online with Zoe) A really excellent commentary about the issue of where life begins, particularly in reference to the new film Juno (which I have admittedly refused to see on grounds of general principle).
Blog for Choice Archives (Bush v. Choice) Everything you need to find pro-choice commentary on the web. I apologize for not according the same link fairness to pro-lifers, but I'm not going to help them out. If you want to read pro-life viewpoints, do a google-search.
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in this country. Since that decision, abortion rights have been under constant threat of revoke and pro-choice activists have been vigilant in the maintenance of a strong front against such attacks. To write a lucid history of the ups and downs since Roe v. Wade would take more time than I have to give at the moment, and so I will post some links at the end of this.
For the 35th anniversary, pro-choice organizations have asked bloggers to answer the question: Why do you vote pro-choice?
My reasons for doing so are perhaps more simple, more narrow, more about me than most civil-minded activists, but I will give them honestly. I vote pro-choice because I believe that no one but a woman has the right to make a decision about whether or not a woman should give birth. I believe that most people who oppose abortion secretly oppose it on the grounds that it gives women too much freedom--freedom to act like men; to fuck who they want, when they want, where they want, and have no consequences. The attempt to control a woman's right to choose is about more than "life," more than "conception," more than "god." It's also about "misogyny," also about "patriarchy," also about "no bitch is gonna tell me."
And I will fight those viewpoints, and their various tools and means of expression, till my last breath. The first stage in the fight is voting, and so I vote pro-choice. I pray I always will.
Links:
35 Years After Roe (CNN.com) A general summary of what has happened since the supreme court decision; unbiased for the most part.
Love with the Proper Stranger (Online with Zoe) A really excellent commentary about the issue of where life begins, particularly in reference to the new film Juno (which I have admittedly refused to see on grounds of general principle).
Blog for Choice Archives (Bush v. Choice) Everything you need to find pro-choice commentary on the web. I apologize for not according the same link fairness to pro-lifers, but I'm not going to help them out. If you want to read pro-life viewpoints, do a google-search.
