Word: partiality
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While Dubya signed into law the ban on “partial-birth” abortion this week, I found myself repeating the president’s words. There is a photograph of Bush posted on the National Abortion Rights Action League website; nine other white, male colleagues circle around him like a big, happy, arch-conservative family, and Dubya’s grinning like it’s Christmas. This photograph paired with Bush’s stirring quote brings home the dreariness of our current political situation...
Silly me, despite the dire warnings from pro-choice spokespersons about how the “partial-birth” abortion ban tears at the fabric of Roe v. Wade, I wasn’t too worried about the new legislation. I knew that “partial-birth” abortions were pretty rare, and so it all seemed like a hollow victory for the pro-life lobby. That was until I read the fine print. There is one exception built into the ban—doctors are allowed to perform the operation if the pregnancy puts the woman?...
...have to admit, just as I was pretty clueless when it came to the more serious implications of the “partial-birth” ban, I also came relatively late to the realization that a woman’s right to an accessible, affordable abortion is no retro issue. The reality is the “right to choose” doesn’t even exist yet for large demographics of poor and minority women. According to recent data published by the Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 87 percent...
...percentages do not demonstrate the difficulties the women faced, or the huge number of unwanted pregnancies by low-income mothers that were carried to term instead. The difficulties associated with access relate specifically to early abortions, which may explain why there is still a need for safe and legal partial-birth abortions: according to the same study I cited earlier, “Nearly half (48 percent) of women who had late abortions attributed their delay to ‘difficulty making arrangements for the procedure’.” Whether it’s lack of money, transportation...
...from tired “choice” rhetoric, and examine the reality of women’s agency in the U.S. For now at least, abortion is still safe and legal, but it’s not even an option for many women. Forget the “partial-birth” ban; we should have been up in arms decades...