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An abortion party with a cover charge, complete with dance floor "womb" and all, is a great campy way to deal the all too common financial problems. I see nothing wrong with the party, and suspect that all the handwringing about it is tacit tithing to the anti-choice meme that abortions should be solemn, shameful, private affairs.
I'm all for the "Woo-hoo! I'm not preggers anymore! Pop the keg, not the kid!" approach. Why? Well...
1. There are 6.5 billion of us on the planet. One more unborn, unwanted kid is no kind of tragedy at all. On the contrary, it's doing the world a favor. It's green, even!
2. Conservatives have successfully poisoned abortion the same way they did with "liberal." It's not something to be ashamed of. And I can think of no better way to combat that toxic meme than by an in-your-face, over the top, campy party that goes into the night and gets the cops called, to boot.
3. For college kids, affording an abortion is truly a problem. Anti-choice folks have succeeded in derailing tons of potential public funding, so these kids need to find ways to pay for the procedure out of their empty pockets. And what could be more dear to Republican and conservative hearts than an entrepreneur, capitalist, free market approach of having your friends pony up a cover charge for food and entertainment within? Sounds downright American as apple pie and explosives on July 4th, to me.
I'm all for it, and I am disappointed to see Broadsheet's contributors wringing their hands over it, no matter what their rationalizations for buying into the conservative "shame" meme.
