- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
>>How the hell did we get here?<<
Wake up! WakeupWakeupWakeup! When are these so-called fearless female leaders going to realize that ABORTION is not the end and the beginning of "women's issues"?
As a member of the "tween" generation, and a recovering active member of the pro-choice movement (still pro-choice, just not in favor of the elitism and classism exhibited by the NOWs and NARALs), I must say there are bigger issues for women than abortion. There IS child care, health care, jobs, THE WAR, the economy.
Look, we lost the abortion argument from the get-go when it was presented to the Supreme Court as "a woman's right to choose" rather than a right of medical privacy. All we successfully created was new not-for-profit and lobbyist jobs for the neo-liberal elites wanting to hob-knob in D.C. congressional hallways and over $100 steak dinners in D.C. restaurants.
If you don't live in an urban area, then you probably do not have access to abortion, because there are no clinics where an abortion can be performed. Hell with Roe v. Wade! It can stand untouched but for the last twenty years those "pro-choice activists" who cry the loudest over the return of wire hangers have done nothing to build up the physical infrastructure needed to get an abortion in the first place. Besides, if Roe v. Wade gets thrown out, economically priviledged girls with just go back having “D&Cs” in their gynecologist’s offices. Privately.
It is time for those women claiming to represent the “needs” of American women to reprioritize their fourty-year old agendas, admit they blew the argument in the first place and get in touch with real women and real needs.
The average American Gal ain't lobotomized or dumb, it's just her female "fearless leaders" got nothin' to sell, so there's nothin' to buy.
