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26 March 2008 9:31 am by Taylor Marsh
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I’m in some very good company. Thanks to all of you who worked to get me included.
I’m honored.
But a word about Jill Stanek. She is one of the most virilently anti-civil rights for women activists on the “pro-life” side. Though I, for one, will never understand how dictating to a woman how she lives her own life is being “pro-life.” But Stanek is very popular, in fact the most highly trafficked blogger in her category, so credit where it’s due. But let me be blunt. In the 21st century it would be a wonderful change if the conversation on abortion wasn’t put in terms as strident as what moves Ms. Stanek. Fewer abortions will not happen through 20th century language or methods, and that should be common ground for us all. But it’s not. A woman’s body is her own domain. In the 21st century, on civil rights alone, everyone should be able to agree on that, then move forward from there to reduce the number of abortions. I truly wish we could find some meeting on this subject, but when people want to dictate to women what we can do with our own bodies it’s a deal breaker. There is so much we could do together if our goal was reducing abortions, including making contraception and early action remedies readily available, instead of continuing the argument that governmnet has any role at all in what a woman does in her own life, with her own body, which should be no one’s business but her own, her conscience and her God.
Anyway, thanks to everyone for putting me in such fine company. I’m truly thrilled.
