We probably do, because I would argue that this good/evil dynamic is one of the things that's been fucking over the pro-choice movement. We've allowed the other side to frame it as a moral conflict, rather than a moral choice, and lost the framing of it as a matter of simple freedom to make a choice, based on your personal beliefs. We'd do well to take back the framing, and make it about individual moral choices being outside the scope of legislation rather than rights of the mother vs. rights of the fetus.
But my horror at what the pro-life movement wants to accomplish and my frustration with the hypocrisy and my rage at the attempted infringing of my right to bodily integrity is a deep, visceral, and personal thing, as it is for many pro-choice women. And enough people - usually men - have raised their hands and said in placating tones that we must consider the other side's point lest we become what we fight and yadda yadda, under the apparent assumption that their words are somehow a revelation unto we overemotional females, that the default reaction is snarling and snark. Ye ken?
There's a lot of people out there trying to tell women how we should feel about our lives and our bodies and our choices. You can say whatever you want, but please remember that you ain't the first to say it, and if we don't appreciate your repeating the same old song and dance it's really not personal.
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Date: 2008-07-16 11:54 pm (UTC)But my horror at what the pro-life movement wants to accomplish and my frustration with the hypocrisy and my rage at the attempted infringing of my right to bodily integrity is a deep, visceral, and personal thing, as it is for many pro-choice women. And enough people - usually men - have raised their hands and said in placating tones that we must consider the other side's point lest we become what we fight and yadda yadda, under the apparent assumption that their words are somehow a revelation unto we overemotional females, that the default reaction is snarling and snark. Ye ken?
There's a lot of people out there trying to tell women how we should feel about our lives and our bodies and our choices. You can say whatever you want, but please remember that you ain't the first to say it, and if we don't appreciate your repeating the same old song and dance it's really not personal.