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Monday, July 30th, 2007 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serai.
This is beautiful.
In Newsweek magazine, Anna Quindlen asks the oddly ignored question,
"If abortion becomes illegal, what sentence should the woman receive?"
And here's the video referenced in that article:
How Much Jail Time?
Lee Goodman asks anti-abortion demonstrators a rather uncomfortable question.
You know, for people who are so adamantine about their opinion on this matter, they seem to have spent precious little time actually thinking the thing through to its logical conclusion. They want abortion made illegal, but they completely shy away from even thinking about what to do with the person who actually set the "crime" in motion. This is exactly like saying that contract killing should be a crime, but we shouldn't punish the guy who pays for the hit. Right. That's logic.
I'm with Quindlen on this one: The reason they squirm and squirrel about when asked the question, clearly not wanting to answer it, is because if illegal abortion did include punishment for the women, the populace would overwhelmingly be against overturning Roe vs. Wade. Who wants to put desperate women in jail for wanting to control their own lives? Much easier to point the finger at the diabolical doctors. Friggin' scientists are all in collusion with Satan, anyway.
ETA: Apparently, the owner of the video requested that embedding be withdrawn for it. It is, however, still up at Youtube, and you can see it HERE
This is beautiful.
In Newsweek magazine, Anna Quindlen asks the oddly ignored question,
"If abortion becomes illegal, what sentence should the woman receive?"
And here's the video referenced in that article:
How Much Jail Time?
Lee Goodman asks anti-abortion demonstrators a rather uncomfortable question.
You know, for people who are so adamantine about their opinion on this matter, they seem to have spent precious little time actually thinking the thing through to its logical conclusion. They want abortion made illegal, but they completely shy away from even thinking about what to do with the person who actually set the "crime" in motion. This is exactly like saying that contract killing should be a crime, but we shouldn't punish the guy who pays for the hit. Right. That's logic.
I'm with Quindlen on this one: The reason they squirm and squirrel about when asked the question, clearly not wanting to answer it, is because if illegal abortion did include punishment for the women, the populace would overwhelmingly be against overturning Roe vs. Wade. Who wants to put desperate women in jail for wanting to control their own lives? Much easier to point the finger at the diabolical doctors. Friggin' scientists are all in collusion with Satan, anyway.
ETA: Apparently, the owner of the video requested that embedding be withdrawn for it. It is, however, still up at Youtube, and you can see it HERE
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Date: Sunday, August 5th, 2007 07:51 pm (UTC)The ones who only want to punish the doctors want to infantilize women -- it's bad enough we're allowed to vote and own property these days, God forbid we can actually understand the consequences of making big medical decisions. (For some reason, they have no problem accepting a 15-year-old's medical decision to become a poverty-stricken unwed teen mother several times over, but a 45-year-old doesn't know her own mind if she comes in for an abortion.)
And of course they're against real sex education, birth control, and all the rest of the stuff that would actually PREVENT so many abortions. If it weren't for keeping their girls ignorant, most of these ugly-ass male anti-abortion guys wouldn't be able to get laid in the first place.