Posts by B Jones
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Agreed. You change the environment that shapes those choices; you don't pile further restrictions on.
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to blindjackdog,
Isn't it just a little confrontational to dismiss a woman wanting to be able to decide whether she's pregnant or not as neo-liberal acculturation? I'm sorry but you haven't exactly convinced me why we should put our bodies and families on the line to serve.some greater good.
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to Lilith __,
Then I've misunderstood you. The mechanism of action is explained more fully here: Emergency Contraception
When late pregnancies endanger the life of the mother, babies are often induced as early as it's considered safe, then cared for in a neonatal ward. Late term abortions are more often about discovering an incurable condition that's incompatible with life for the baby - things that are only detectable after 20 weeks. Or they're about women who have been unable to access earlier medical care.
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To make an informed choice, women must know
Citation? The thing is, it's really really difficult to reliably tell when a fertilised egg is created but does not implant, so it's hard to tell if it's happening that way. People who emphasis the implantation mechanism tend to be of the sort who think that preventing fertilisation is morally different in an important way to preventing implantation, ie, prolifers.
Just because contraception is post-coital doesn't mean it's post-fertilisation. Fertilisation, which is incredibly hard to detect in vivo, happens a day or two after the main event.
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Lilith, that's not actually true. Both work primarily by preventing ovulation and therefore conception.
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Without wanting to go too far down this rabbit hole, I think many lawyers would argue that rights do exist and can be objectively determined (by a court of law) and in some cases can inform and influence, if not overrule, laws duly passed by parliament. A point of view widely held by Catholics, among others, is that there is a natural law that overrides human-made law (and therefore, no abortion); a point of view that's held sway in the US is that the Constitutional right to privacy overrides states' attempts at prohibiting first trimester abortion (and therefore, legal abortion).
I'm not sure I buy this approach myself, since these natural laws are still discovered and interpreted by human beings, and the ones affected by those laws are still underrepresented among those making/discovering them one way or the other. I believe not a single one of the handful of female MPs in 1977 voted for the law as it currently stands here.
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My first flat was periodic, and I considered it a concession when I agreed to a fixed term lease in return for the landlord replacing the awful carpet and undersized hot water cylinder. My second flat was a year to begin with, then went periodic. It's a pain when you're young and mobile, to be tied in to a fixed term and need to find someone to take over the lease when you want to move in with someone else, or buy a house, or go on your OE.
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to James W,
Can we be a bit careful of language here? Just about everyone is against killing babies; I'm sure you wouldn't want to imply that some of us are not. Embryos =/= babies.
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I visited Porirua Hospital as a schoolchild in 1987 or 88 - our school choir and orchestra gave annual concerts there for the patients. It left a lasting impression - the people I could see in the audience were overwhelmingly elderly, and chainsmokers to a man and woman. The fug in the auditorium was unbelievable.
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Up Front: Lighting the Dark, in reply to Danielle,
Even if nothing “that bad” ever happens to you, there you are with your weaponised car keys and your worries about writing in public and your risk assessment strategies. It’s so tiring.
And expensive. I spend more to park near my destination, catch a taxi rather than walk or bus late at night, and just miss out on some things I don't feel safe doing on my own because female.