Comments on: Appeasing anti-abortion activists won’t reduce abortion; it won’t even shut them up: Poland edition

By: The Red Thread : Carnival of Feminists

The Red Thread : Carnival of Feminists — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:04:20 +0000

[...] But Kyso Kisaen at PunkAssBlog points out that these exceptions do not necessarily protect those women that fall under them. Case in point, Alicja Tysiac, a 35 year-old Polish mother who was denied an abortion even though doctors warned that she would go blind if she gave birth. [...]

By: 35th Carnival of Feminists « The Blog and the Bullet

35th Carnival of Feminists « The Blog and the Bullet — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:53:53 +0000

By: defenestrated

defenestrated — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:33:41 +0000

I’m always just shocked when the forced pregnancy crowd comes right out and says that zeh babees trump even the life of the mother. I mean, I know that they believe it – there’s a 50/50 chance that the embryo will grow into a Real Person™, while the mother is necessarily a woman and thus not actually human – but why do they think that this plays well to anyone who cares about an actual woman in their life and might not want her to die?

By: What I’m Reading When I’m Not Pretending to Blog at Faux Real

What I’m Reading When I’m Not Pretending to Blog at Faux Real — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:25:50 +0000

[...] Appeasing anti-abortion activists won’t reduce abortion; it won’t even shut them up: Poland edition: In between the two extremes of “No abortions, ever!” and “Abortion on demand without apology” are the great masses of people who find the idea of abortion icky but aren’t quite comfortable with an outright ban. These people usually find a rung of the “exceptions for rape and/or incest and/or fetal deformities and/or the life and/or health of the mother” ladder to hang out on, where whenever the uncomfortable topic comes up, they can list all of their generous exceptions and feel progressive. There are many reasons why this isn’t really good enough. The major historical reason, however, is that when you grant a group of uninterested people power over if a woman “deserves” an abortion, they are most assuredly going to abuse this power. You can not have a right to something contingent on whether or not your doctor is going to be an asshole that day. [...]

By: girl

girl — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:35:13 +0000

Wow. Really. Just holy sh*t.