A New Model in the Fight for Abortion Rights
A New Model in the Fight for Abortion Rights
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Anti-abortion and pro-choice activists crowd together in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. D.C., during a 2011 rally. (AP / Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Republicans insist that they care deeply about American families. But taken together, their actions in recent months—along with their inaction—on a string of modest and long-overdue proposals to improve the lot of poor and middle-income women and their families tell a different story. What the party really seems to care about are fetuses, and pretty much only fetuses.
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Like Dr. Strangelove’s uncontrollable right arm, Republicans just can’t stop. They are obsessed with abortion or, more precisely, with eliminating it. Their obsession infuriates me and it should infuriate you. Women have made enormous economic, political and social strides in recent decades; my 27-year-old daughter and her generation have opportunities that we baby boomers only dreamed about 30 years ago. Gender discrimination has been largely outlawed in education and on the job. A woman—the second to hold the post—has just become U.S. attorney general, a woman has been speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and a woman who was the second female secretary of state and a U.S. senator is now running for president.
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We who believe in the right of women to make their own choices need to take a lesson from the community of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people: ******find new allies and make noise. LOTS MORE NOISE (emphasis mine!)
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We need to make so much noise that reproductive rights become an issue for corporate America. When Wal-Mart, Angie’s List and a number of other companies raised objections to Indiana’s religious freedom law, Gov. Mike Pence and state legislators quickly amended the law to clarify that it does not condone discrimination against gay men and lesbians. A similar sequence of events occurred in Arkansas.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/01/new-model-fight-abortion-rights