Feminists for (Fetal) Life

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http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050829&s=pollitt

Subject to Debate by Katha Pollitt

For FFL there's only one right decision: Have that baby. And since women's moral judgment cannot be trusted, abortion must be outlawed, whatever the consequences for women's lives and health--for rape victims and 12-year-olds and 50-year-olds, women carrying Tay-Sachs fetuses and women at risk of heart attack or stroke, women who have all the children they can handle and women who don't want children at all. FFL argues that abortion harms women--that's why it clings to the outdated cancer claims. But it would oppose abortion just as strongly if it prevented breast cancer, filled every woman's heart with joy, lowered the national deficit and found Jimmy Hoffa. That's because they aren't really feminists--a feminist could not force another woman to bear a child, any more than she could turn a pregnant teenager out into a snowstorm. They are fetalists.

[jeff30997]

1. Another brilliant Repuke oxymoron...

Just like: Compassionate conservatives.

[Swamp Rat]

2. I like to add one more word to that oxymoron to fix it.

:D

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Abortion harms women b/c it is linked to breast cancer?

OK, let's say it is theoretically. Breast cancer is treatable and often curable. (The anti-choice side has not produced articles in JAMA and Lancet to convince me they're correct.)

Abortion criminalized harms women b/c it is linked to mutilation, fatal infection, and death when women are forced onto dirty tables in back alley rooms with "surgeons" who can no better carve a turkey than carefully expel a zygote, embryo, or fetus.

Let's face it. Banning abortion is just another way to control women and punish them for enjoying sex for recreational purposes rather than reprodutive purposes.

[REP]

4. From The Pollitt Piece:

"(Challenged on the cancer connection, Foster says they just want women to have medical information. Asked why they don't then link to the 2004 Lancet article debunking their cancer claims, she says they are not medical experts and have considered taking the cancer pages down.)"

[rodeodance]

5. then take down the misinformation already!! geech!!

.......she says they are not medical experts and have considered taking the cancer pages down.)"