From: Zeynep Tufekcioglu <zeynept-AT-turk.net>
Subject: Re: M-I: Rights, etc. (To Rob, Carrol, and Others) (PS)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 02:58:02 +0300


I forgot to add something. I worked on family planning research and I spent
some time analysing the reasons and results of various forms of
birth-control on women's lives. Maybe it is because of conditions in Turkey,
but multiple abortions have a serious negative impact on a woman's health.
Many of the woman didn't get the support they should have gotten because of
the "purely technical" approach that is more or less dominant here. Of
course, this is a rather rotten capitalist state, but that experience left
me wondering what a socialist state would do? Treating it as an important
decision carries the risks Carrol and Yoshie have been outlining,
downplaying it as purely technical can easily lead to another kind of
pressure - "why are you complaining about a purely technical event?" Think
what you will, many women were unhappy about it and felt that they were
pressured into having an abortion and they got treated as if they had a
tooth pulled out.

Zeynep



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