that's a lot of good articles in there. thanks for the link.
i get anxious just thinking about how close pro-choice legislation is to being overturned. i think our younger generation has never had to really fight for these rights, and we have no concept of how much life would change if abortion were not safe & legal. i think i'm going to donate to naral.org today.
i also found a very conservative pro-life website while researching the above links: roe v wade. it fooled me for a moment, but then it scared me.
....and it's in as much jeopardy as ever it was, sadly. pro-lifers scare me. i heard of a rally that was held recently, which 'celebrated those under 30 as 'survivors' of roe v. wade.' it's awful, really, propaganda--and yet they're frighteningly close, as you say, to getting their way. which will partially mean more unwanted children, soon-to-be-neglected children, and back-alley abortions and so on and so on. hooray for the pro-life movement.
also, we all know that the bush administration is sooooo keen on funding low income and poverty initiatives, and women's health is, like, their favorite thing ever. republicans are all about favoring the lower socio-economic classes! and they love gender equality! so all those child welfare issues and access to healthcare issues will just disappear! and thank god they're cutting taxes for the rich! the benefits will trickle down, right? right?
it scares me. pro-life legislators are using declining membership numbers in groups like naral and planned parenthood as direct evidence of the public's waning support for safe & legal abortions. whereas we, the younger generation of women, have never lived in an age when membership in a pro-choice organization was politically necessary in order to have safe & legal access to abortion clinics. but it's becoming more & more important - with the executive & legislative branches of the government firmly in republican control, you can almost hear the legislation steamrolling over the last few decades' worth of political progress in the name of women's rights. if bush has his way with his supreme court justice nominees, i will bet good money that we will have two years, max, before a significant (if not complete) reversal of roe v wade is passed.
[ i know. i might not live in america, but these concerns are just as valid the world over, and women's rights aren't just national, in the broadest sense. when i walk through the city, through king george square and past city hall, there's always this frightening hardcore religious guy, wearing one of those sandwich boards with "abortion is evil, death to sinners" written on it, and he waves around photographs, and yells out to you that if you ever have an abortion you'll burn in the flames of hell, etc. it's such bullshit, and it makes me so angry.
the howard government here is scarily like bush's administration and that is, let's face it, never a good thing. i think it's more important than ever that we continue to fight for these rights, and that they can be so easily taken away and denied scares me very much.
there are articles in this week's time magazine, too. ]
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Date: 2003-01-22 07:06 am (UTC)xo.
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Date: 2003-01-22 07:36 am (UTC)i get anxious just thinking about how close pro-choice legislation is to being overturned. i think our younger generation has never had to really fight for these rights, and we have no concept of how much life would change if abortion were not safe & legal. i think i'm going to donate to naral.org today.
i also found a very conservative pro-life website while researching the above links: roe v wade. it fooled me for a moment, but then it scared me.
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Date: 2003-01-22 07:53 am (UTC)eeeeuuhhh.
propaganda.
Date: 2003-01-22 08:14 am (UTC)it scares me. pro-life legislators are using declining membership numbers in groups like naral and planned parenthood as direct evidence of the public's waning support for safe & legal abortions. whereas we, the younger generation of women, have never lived in an age when membership in a pro-choice organization was politically necessary in order to have safe & legal access to abortion clinics. but it's becoming more & more important - with the executive & legislative branches of the government firmly in republican control, you can almost hear the legislation steamrolling over the last few decades' worth of political progress in the name of women's rights. if bush has his way with his supreme court justice nominees, i will bet good money that we will have two years, max, before a significant (if not complete) reversal of roe v wade is passed.
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Date: 2003-01-22 07:00 pm (UTC)the howard government here is scarily like bush's administration and that is, let's face it, never a good thing. i think it's more important than ever that we continue to fight for these rights, and that they can be so easily taken away and denied scares me very much.
there are articles in this week's time magazine, too. ]
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