From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox) Subject: Re: M-FEM: (fwd)Abortion - whose rights?/05-28-97 Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:29:37 -0500 (CDT) It seems to me that one aspect of this continuing attack on a woman's right to an abortion is that left and feminist forces, by emphasizing "choice" rather than "right," and often arguing and/or admitting that abortion is a "very serious" matter have seldom really challenged the chief barrier, both practical and ideological, to the exercise of this right: the classification of abortion as a moral issue. It It isn't. It is a matter of a medical procedure, no more subject to moral debate than the style of one's haircut or one's preference among authors of crime fiction. As the late Lisa Rogers presented it in a debate two years ago on the marxism list (predecessor of all the present marxist lists) (I quote from memory): In a jar, Daddy-O, in a jar."The debate was triggered by a communist from Canada who had rather gratuitously, if I remember correctly, brought the subject up with a long discourse on how serious a decision abortion was, etc. etc. I came to feel strongly about the obnoxiousness of regarding abortion as a "moral" issue from year after year reading papers by college women which showed them tied in knots by the heavy moral discourse about the subject. Carrol
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