Unless, of course, you're simply making a plea for good manners, rather than of gummint intervention in same. In which case "Hear! Hear!"
Yes, more an issue of "good manners". I don't like how the states have been able to chip away at access, but that is the right of a state. I didn't so much mean the protests at clinics, so much as I meant the simple fact that all these people are trying to have a say in my reproductive life. To be perfectly blunt, the only man who has any semblance of say in what I do with my uterus is Brian, and that's because he's contributing to the production of any life therein.
You and I can have this reasoned discussion, and agree to disagree (like this is the only topic that occurs on, NOT!). Everytime I see anti-abortion propaganda that portrays women as essentially too stupid to make their own decision, that makes me mad. Luckily, because we live in the free and diverse society, I'm allowed to say so.
It's really the imposing of one's views on others that bothers me. I support choice - choice and right to have an abortion, choice and right to birth control (and I wouldn't mind if they mandated insurers to cover it, that much government influence I support), choice and right to bear children if and when (approximately) you wish. I do not support forced abortions (China comes to mind). The problem with overturning Roe v. Wade is it forces the pro-life viewpoint on those of us who are pro-choice.
There's also the worry of if it's okay to attack abortion, can birth control REALLY be that far down the road?
I will freely admit though, that the idea that it is a woman's life, and not her health, that they will make an exception for squicks me the hell out. But then, with the man currently in charge, that's not the only thing that does.
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Date: 2006-03-04 11:11 am (UTC)Unless, of course, you're simply making a plea for good manners, rather than of gummint intervention in same. In which case "Hear! Hear!"
Yes, more an issue of "good manners". I don't like how the states have been able to chip away at access, but that is the right of a state. I didn't so much mean the protests at clinics, so much as I meant the simple fact that all these people are trying to have a say in my reproductive life. To be perfectly blunt, the only man who has any semblance of say in what I do with my uterus is Brian, and that's because he's contributing to the production of any life therein.
You and I can have this reasoned discussion, and agree to disagree (like this is the only topic that occurs on, NOT!). Everytime I see anti-abortion propaganda that portrays women as essentially too stupid to make their own decision, that makes me mad. Luckily, because we live in the free and diverse society, I'm allowed to say so.
It's really the imposing of one's views on others that bothers me. I support choice - choice and right to have an abortion, choice and right to birth control (and I wouldn't mind if they mandated insurers to cover it, that much government influence I support), choice and right to bear children if and when (approximately) you wish. I do not support forced abortions (China comes to mind). The problem with overturning Roe v. Wade is it forces the pro-life viewpoint on those of us who are pro-choice.
There's also the worry of if it's okay to attack abortion, can birth control REALLY be that far down the road?
I will freely admit though, that the idea that it is a woman's life, and not her health, that they will make an exception for squicks me the hell out. But then, with the man currently in charge, that's not the only thing that does.
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