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What's a Sister to do about Big Brother?

February 15, 2004 02:57 AM posted by morgaine : track it (2)

On a personal note - I've been in Toronto for a while, then we had to host a funeral and I became ill, so I'm behind on a lot of commentary. I'll go back to the previous four topics on my blog at http://the-goddess.org/blog/index.html to get caught up.

The Collab topic for this week is: What is an appropriate feminist response to the new assault on women's reproductive freedom? The DOJ is demanding that hospitals release abortion records to defend it's "partial-birth abortion" ban. Given the current political climate, this not only threatens privacy, but I think could be considered self-incrimination if they start prosecuting women and/or doctors for having or performing abortions.

We are in an election year, and we are looking at returning to the dark ages before the women's movement. So do we vote our conscience - I can't speak for everyone, but in my case conscience=Kucinich - or do we play the odds and go with flavor of the week i.e. it was Dean, now it's Kerry, next it will be...?

Can we afford to let the media choose our president for us? Can we afford more of Ashcroft's assault on our civil rights? Do we as Feminists have any power to influence the election? Is feminism dying a natural death or getting poised for a rebirth? (I know it's a really broad topic - I'm hoping to get some good debate going.)

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Wheee!!! I'm FIRST this time! My response is up here

Posted by: Vic... on February 15, 2004 10:35 AM |

The I'm Not Sorry actions that are occurring presently are a step in the right direction. If every woman who has had an abortion and does not regret it would come forward and speak up, then people in charge (primarily old white men) would have to stop pretending that people with wombs our invisible. more here

Posted by: kerri on February 15, 2004 07:44 PM |

it's short & sweet this time, not unlike moi. i can't wait to see what y'all have to say.

Posted by: lenée on February 16, 2004 05:12 PM |

It's really late, but here's mine. It took me awhile to collect my thoughts. I know I'm not doing as much as I could, and I bet most of us aren't. But how do we motivate to do more?

Posted by: april on February 25, 2004 10:59 AM |

It's incredibly belated, but it's here.

Posted by: megan on February 27, 2004 02:49 AM |