Letters to the Editor
moonwatcher13
Published Letters: 3 Editor's Choice: 2
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Re: A link for you
[Read the article: More "common ground" on abortion? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Canuckistan Bob, I've seen that chart before, and it's such a great reminder of what this debate is really about. Anti-choicers positions are entirely inconsistent with valuing human life, and entirely consistent with wanting to punish women for having sex.
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Re: Exploiting women to protect animals?
[Read the article: Exploiting women to protect animals?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It should be pointed out that not all vegans approve of such tactics. I'm vegan but I refuse to support PETA because of their sexist ads (among other things I don't like about them). In fact there is a feminist movement within the animal rights movement that points out how women's bodies have been conflated with meat, designed for men's "consumption", in advertisements and pop culture. Carol J. Adams' book The Sexual Politics of Meat discusses the intersection of women's and animal rights.
And I also doubt that the vegan strip club is catering to vegan men, as I would guess there are few vegans who visit strip clubs anyway. It's just a way to get omnivorous strip club customers to try vegan food and discover that it can actually taste quite good.
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Re: Why?
[Read the article: Indian P.M. calls sex selection a "national shame" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not the abortions per se that are the problem; the problem is the resulting gender imbalance in the society, which has gotten very out of hand in India, and in China as well. But illegalizing sex-selective abortion and asking about fetal sex is obviously not a viable solution; there are always ways to find out the fetus' sex illegally, just as there are always ways to obtain an abortion illegally. If anything should be criminalized, it's the dowry system. But ultimately, the solution will have to be a change to the cultural value of girls. Right now the problem is continuing to get worse, because more Indians have the monetary means to find out the fetal sex and get abortions than did in the past, but that doesn't mean that the perceived value of girls isn't changing, or can't change in the future.