Wednesday, June 18, 2003
'Roe' (of Roe vs. Wade) calls for abortion to be banned.
This seems to be a rarity, a report that doesn't mention 'abortion' and 'fundamentalist violence' in close proximity. Is it actually possible to have a rational public debate on abortion any more? It seems to be one of those topics that automatically shifts people who get involved in to one of two fundamentalist camps and I don't think either side has particularly acquited itself with any honour, although I don't recall the pro-choice group going round shooting priests.But at least the anto-abortionists have found a woman willing to stand up against abortion, makes a change from men talking about what men or women shouldn't do. We really need to work on prosthetic wombs and in utero transplants so the men can have the dilemma for themselves: "You want the thing to live? Then you give birth to it and raise it!"
This seems to be a rarity, a report that doesn't mention 'abortion' and 'fundamentalist violence' in close proximity. Is it actually possible to have a rational public debate on abortion any more? It seems to be one of those topics that automatically shifts people who get involved in to one of two fundamentalist camps and I don't think either side has particularly acquited itself with any honour, although I don't recall the pro-choice group going round shooting priests.But at least the anto-abortionists have found a woman willing to stand up against abortion, makes a change from men talking about what men or women shouldn't do. We really need to work on prosthetic wombs and in utero transplants so the men can have the dilemma for themselves: "You want the thing to live? Then you give birth to it and raise it!"
