To: pezz who wrote (15199 ) 11/18/1998 10:01:00 PM From: jbe Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Whoa -- pezz, ish, WhoMe, all you pro- and anti-abortion warriors..searchforcommonground.org ethics.acusd.edu very uneasy about abortion. And, IMO, to view the abortion debate as being simply over the "right of women to control their own bodies" is very mistaken. I am not alone in this. See, for example, this brief review of a 1995 New Republic piece by Naomi Wolf, entitled "Our Bodies, Our Souls: Rethinking Pro-choice Rhetoric":..A very interesting and thought-provoking article by the author of The Beauty Myth, who maintains "that we need to contextualize the fight to defend abortion rights within a moral framework that admits that the death of a fetus is a real death; that there are degrees of culpability, judgment and responsibility involved in the decision to abort a pregnancy; that the best understanding of feminism involves holding women as well as men to the responsibilities that are inseparable from their rights; and that we need to be strong enough to acknowledge that this country's high rate of abortion--which ends more than a quarter of all pregnancies--can only be rightly understood as what Dr. Henry Foster was brave enough to call it: "a failure." theatlantic.com
