Scent of a Woman's Ink Four
In the black of the winter of nineteen nine,
When we froze and bled on the picket line,
We showed the world that women could fight
And we rose and won with women's might.
The Uprising of the 20,000
This past week has seen the tightening of the noose around a woman's cervix. Women bloggers have taken their rage to the page, and this edition of Scent of a Woman's Ink presents a sampling of the outstanding writing on the topic. Please note that this is an extremely limited sampling of writing on abortion this week, and if I've left someone out, I apologize.
A note on this photo.The Uprising of the 20,000 occurred in the winter of 1909-10, when 20,000 garment workers took to the streets to demand decent working conditions. These women were beaten and arrested and thrown in jail--many of them for simply picketing outside their places of employment. It is the spirit of these women strikers that I summon today, as I believe that the right to privacy will once again have to be fought for in the streets, in the courts, and, sadly, among ourselves.
The New Civil War: South Dakota Bans Abortion
This comment is not about pointing fingers. It's just about bringing to the fore the fact that when you have Gloria Steinem talking about Hugh Hefner's "moslem" life-style, and white latino lower-class women like my mom talking about "the right to choose" something only American "blanquitas" would talk about, you need to face the inherent problems within the ideological foundation of the women's movement. The matter of abortion, by having been made a women's only issue paved the way to becoming the perfect "pick and choose bait" needed by Dominionst/Confederalists to revert the governmental landscape of this country to it's pre-Civil War tyranny. Under what guise? "Women's Health and Human Life Protection Act" [PDF]; which should read in truth, to really go in line with the Dominionists/Confederalists worldview, this is to them all about legislating "OUR Women's Health and OUR DNA Protection Act".
On Abortion, Conservatives Preaching the Model of Utter Failure
So what is it about these political leaders with failed policies and their determination to foist their failures on others?
Are higher teen birth rates really something to emulate?
Are higher infant mortality rates something to expand nationwide?
The Scars That Keep On Giving and Taking, Abortion Wars
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He was wrong, when I look at the scars it never crosses my mind how close I had come to death. When I look at the scars I'm reminded of the end of my childhood dreams. I'm reminded of how many things ended in those days and months. I'm reminded of the terror I felt, the horror of not being in charge, the outrage felt by others shaping my future.
The Missionaries of the Gospel of Life is an (of course) all-male order of both priests and lay members dedicated to battling what Pavone calls "a plague as spiritually fatal as any she has ever fought before—the plague of the culture of death."
Naming, Shaming, Abortion and Cultural Relativism
The situation in Punjab offers a great example of this. It’s unfair, in my eyes, to go after the women having these abortions. Yes, they’re making a choice, but they’re doing so in reaction to a series of cultural issues that make them believe, as females themselves, that femaleness is inferior and that it’s a burden. We can attempt to rectify the deep-seated wrongs instead of attacking the women who are simply trying to negotiate their own lives in a thoroughly fucked-up world.
In all the things that we say we value then turn around and willfully flush down the toilet as if these rights were an afterthought and not won through the blood, sweat, tears, struggle...oh yes, and the lives of too many.
Rights, Facts, Comments and Kibble
Now, as for the “myriad of [sic] nuanced laws
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