by matttbastard

On January 28th, 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada tendered a watershed decision in the case of R. v. Morgentaler, rendering Canada’s restrictive abortion law null and void.
Judy Rebick recalls the moment she received word tha…

It says frack-all about sexual purity, pregnancy, and abortion.

Oh, lizard shit! How can anyone listen to these people?

Ah, it’s probly one a them Gawker f*ckers, out for cheap advertising as usual.

As for Jezebel, I’d recommend everyone do a bit of reading on the feminist reinterpretation of that particular Biblical figure. Not just because she’s fascinating, but because looking at various elements of her story through a feminist theory lens produces a great many points of relevance to our current, modern situation.

When I was at university, before being driven out by Teh Crazy, I wrote some very well received papers on the topic. As such, Jezebel holds a particular place in my heart.

Pro-lifers often say “Aren’t you glad you weren’t aborted?” Of course I am (although if I had been, I wouldn’t be here to know), but I am even *more* glad that my mother had the opportunity to abort me, and chose to give me life instead. If she had had no choice, then I would always wonder if I was inflicted on her, if she didn’t really want me, if I was an accident that derailed her whole life. But my mother did have a choice, and she chose me. I know that I was wanted and loved from the moment my mother learned of my existence.

On the other hand, my mother was adopted. Her biological mother was a 16-year-old Catholic girl who got knocked up by a 15-year-old Jewish boy in Brooklyn in 1950. And the fact that my mother’s biological mother gave her up for adoption has always tormented my mother, because it meant to her that at a fundamental level my bio-grandmother didn’t want her. (This may be unfair. Just as abortion wasn’t an option in 1950, neither was keeping your baby when you were a 16-year-old middle class girl with religious reasons preventing you from getting married to the baby’s father. But it’s how she feels.) Even though she obviously *was* wanted, very much, by my grandparents who adopted her, she has suffered her whole life because she felt her bio-mother didn’t want her. My mother would probably have felt a *lot* better if my bio-grandmother had had the opportunity to abort, and chose to have her baby and give it up anyway; at least then she’d know her bio-mother actively wanted her to be alive and chose to sacrifice to make it so, even if circumstances couldn’t let her raise the child. (And, again, if my bio-grandmother had had the opportunity to abort, and taken it, my mother would never have existed to suffer feelings of worthlessness and abandonment.)

The option of abortion being available to women means that every child who is born can know he or she was wanted, not an unfair burden to his or her mother. And every child should have the opportunity to know that. We all love our mothers, at least when we’re little; we all want our mothers to love us. We all should have the opportunity to know that the very fact that we are alive means our mothers loved and wanted us.

Pro-choice is pro-child.

seriously. does these people have basic math skills?
dead mother = dead baby = equals LESS OF THEIR SO IMPORTANT LIFE

erm, sorry, rant off now…