From: LeoCasey-AT-aol.com Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:13:59 EST Subject: M-TH: Abortion Redux In a message dated 98-01-30 18:09:48 EST, Yoshie writes: << The guy obviously doesn't give a damn about women's emancipation, and that is why he harps on Carrol's word choice, instead of expending any intellectual effort to expand women's zone of privacy or to create the conditions under which women and workers at clinics can exercize their agency without fearing for their lives or punitive moral judgment of conservative social forces. >> Of course, you know absolutely nothing concerning what I have done in support of a woman's right to choose and in defense of clinics, but you would rather impute all kinds of nonsense rather than even ask the question, because that would require you to face the possibility of an answer that would show one does not have to submit your worldview to be a defender of a woman's right to choose. Actually it is distinctly more than a possibility, but I specifically did not raise the issue because I think it is irrelevant to the quality of the argument I offerred. It makes about much sense as arguing that one's position is correct because one is a woman. But I am not about to let the baseless and unsupported allegation stand unchallenged. Now we are finally told, after days of wholehearted defense of the 'whim' thesis, that Carrol simply had a poor choice of words, and that what he really meant to say was 'at will'. Too bad that no ever contended that a woman's will should be restricted. The vituperation seems to grow in proportion to the inability to defend the stance originally taken. Moreover, we are told that the point always was that abortion was morally 'neutral'. But even this 'argument' can not be sustained by the Petchsky quote, unless one wants to take the rather bizarre position that a woman taking charge of her life is a amoral stance -- neither right nor wrong. The feminism I have always supported saw the process by which women took control of their lives as a positive, moral right. Leo --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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