I haven't seen any ads from the abortion rights camp in a while. What they really need is some way of positioning themselves as anti-abortion. This isn't as strange as it sounds.
No, it really isn't. If women were completely and perfectly "empowered" (to use the hated catchphrase) reproductively, there would be no unwanted pregnancies in the first place. The need for abortion itself represents an ongoing failure to establish control over own reproductive capacities. Kathe Pollitt asked once, for example, why we don't all just say to hell with parents and go stand outside shcools to leaflet teenagers with birth control information directly; I think that's an excellent question. (I have more to say about this, but alas, I'm supposed to be working, so maybe I'll come back later).
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No, it really isn't. If women were completely and perfectly "empowered" (to use the hated catchphrase) reproductively, there would be no unwanted pregnancies in the first place. The need for abortion itself represents an ongoing failure to establish control over own reproductive capacities. Kathe Pollitt asked once, for example, why we don't all just say to hell with parents and go stand outside shcools to leaflet teenagers with birth control information directly; I think that's an excellent question. (I have more to say about this, but alas, I'm supposed to be working, so maybe I'll come back later).