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A rarity on the net, there has been a thoughtful and interesting discussion about abortion happening at the vomit comit. I can’t really write about some of the personal stuff happening right now, so I’m resorting to politics again.
I have rallied and tried to work and live by reasonably high feminist standards (where feminism could be defined as the radical notion that women are people). That said, I lived for years with the skeleton in the back of my mind that I hated abortion and secretly believed that it should be illegal. As a vegetarian for 12 years and as the guy who literally escorts spiders and even mosquitoes out of the house, it seemed consistent in terms of preserving life.
The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve come to the perspective of Melanie and Kimberly in the aforementioned discussion. It’s all terribly grey. My current perspective is that we need to work for gender equality. Equal pay, equal opportunity, equal rights, equal healthcare access, equal everything. Once we get to that ideal, and women have the opportunities and resources they need, ideally abortion won’t be all that necessary anyway.
It’s clearer to me now that the right uses the abortion issue as a ruse, a distraction. An Oz to fixate on while they sit behind the curtain and continue to try and erode all the rights and gains women have made in the last century.
