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 --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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