File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9802, message 137


Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:41:04 +0000
From: James Heartfield <James-AT-heartfield.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-TH: abortion


In message <v03102800b0ffa1c3da6a-AT-[128.146.227.182]>, Yoshie Furuhashi
<Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu> writes
>Thank you, James, for sending this text. Japan is another country that
>legally puts the power of abortion decisions in the hands of doctors,
>though like in Britain, doctors do not seem to constrain women's decisions
>there either.

That's very interesting. I see that kind of apparently 'impartial'
regulation, through such agencies as doctors or teachers as much more
characteristic of the future of cpaitalist rule than the old forms of
police and judiciary. I can imagine that Japan would be in the lead in
such noew forms of social regulation.

>As you probably know, I have a more qualified view of women as "freely
>choosing subjects" in the present, but I definitely think that women (and
>men) must struggle to create a society where we can become truly "freely
>choosing subjects."

Yes, I could readily agree if you asked: here and now is there freedom?
you would have to say no - or at least only in the most circumscribed
way. Rather there is an anticipation of what freedom might mean, even in
the simple desire to take control of an event like an accidental
pregnancy.

-- 
James Heartfield


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