Monday, April 03, 2006

Its All About the XY

When abortion and other forms of birth control were not legal there was little to no talk about the health of women or what the unavailability of reproductive control cost our lives. But once it was made legal it was all about the dissolution of families, purported damage to lives of the children and the uppity-ness of women to think they had any say in what goes in or out of their bodies.

Mind you there was no concern for families and the damage to children born to a household already overwhelmed with mouths to feed or the health of the birthing machine and progeny who more frequently die when birth control is not available.

With all the talk about repealing Roe v. Wade, there is another side to this. The Budget is in and due to be passed this week. Thousands of pages long it is a broadside attack on what women need and the state of women in what we mythologize as our democracy.
See great article here
"'Trimming fat'" is not about cutting excess. Because what's being trimmed is not really 'fat'-it's core."


Above photo from http://www.democraticwings.com/images

1 Comments:

At 2:05 PM, Blogger Stina said...

Back in the days they put the kids they couldn't afford (read feed) out in te woods. Kids and old folk who couldn't work ... Hmmm ..

 

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