File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9910, message 339


Subject: Re: Pro-Life Anarchists? 
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:58:26 +0200
From: Jack Jansen <jack-AT-oratrix.nl>


> It seems genuine _but_ I'm not sure that anyone could genuinly miss-quote
> Goldman like without being incredibly misleaded.

Don't forget that there's still _heaps_ of people out there who misquote her 
statement agains divorce, and this quote looks to be in the same vein.

And, by the way, the site looks to be genuine, but based on the experience of 
whoever made it. For the "male coercion and irresponsility" piece:

	Consider this: By vesting all reproductive responsibility in the woman,
	a pro-choice male creates a situation in which men can easily
	rationalize their irresponsibility toward women who choose not to abort.

And from the essay "Abortion: the second rape":

	I myself have had an abortion, and there was an element of sexual
	assault in that pregnancy. I have, in my healing
	process, talked with many aborted women, including rape victims. I have
	also spent a year counseling at a rape crisis
	center, so I am familiar with the realities of both abortion and sexual
	assault. I have observed that woman's reposes to
	these experiences are nearly identical, with a higher incidence of
	self-blame and of delayed onset of symptoms in
	victims of abortion. 

	In every case of abortion after incest with which I am familiar, the
	abortion was arranged by the perpetrator or his wife, with the purpose
	of concealing the incest.

>From this viewpoint the basic premise (although I still violently disagree 
with it) becomes at least a lot more understandable.
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