By embracing abortion in the 1970s, feminism accepted that pregnancy is damaging to women’s lives, rather than something fundamental to human experience
It is part of an opinion columnist’s job to get people to think. A comment in a recent column by my colleague Justine McCarthy did just that.
The principal can’t sleep for worrying. If she paid all the bills on her desk, she couldn’t open the schoolMen are suffering a crisis of meaning. And some are finding answers in orthodox religionThis may cause the same level of shock for some as learning that the Republicans were the anti-slavery party in the American civil war. And they might be more confused by learning that abortion was not primarily seen as a women’s issue until the 1970s.
Bizarrely, pro-choice slogans such as bodily autonomy come straight from libertarianism, which emphasises individual rights above intergenerational and communal concerns. Some pro-choice advocates have even embraced the yellow Gadsden flag, with its hissing rattlesnake and the slogan, “Don’t Tread on Me”.
“none of the four main parties favour implementing the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly for greatly increased access to abortion”
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