- Tiger Beatdown: Blog For Choice Day Presents: A Birthday! – If Roe vs. Wade were a person.
- Feministing: Why Roe isn’t enough – “Roe isn’t enough because privacy is not enough. That narrow legal framework has only barely protected our legal right to access the procedure. It says nothing about access, about funding, about autonomy and barriers. It says nothing about justice. It has not addressed those who based on moral and religious convictions try to limit the health care women can receive. It has not addressed those who want women’s bodies to be manipulated in service of a religious agenda and who want the fetus’s rights to be placed above those of the mother. We need a lot more than a shaky legal framework to stand on if we want to achieve reproductive justice.”
- Amanda Marcotte: Blog For Choice Day: Why misogyny? (Pandagon) – “When I started blogging almost 5 years ago, I didn’t really comprehend the extent that misogyny was the main, probably sole engine of the anti-choice movement. In part, it’s because misogyny is so baffling to me. It just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to hate women, and yet in the years I’ve been doing this and therefore studying and interacting with anti-choicers, I have to conclude that’s what motivates them. Watch this video PZ posted, for instance… What [anti-choicers] fail to understand is that “life begins at conception” is a misogynist statement. It’s the erasure of a woman’s role in making new people, and a claim that the only effort that counts is the effort a man put into ejaculating.”
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