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Submitted by Julianne Wiley, Aug 7, 2007 11:33

As a self-respecting woman and an active advocate for women, I've written and published articles in favor of abortion rights.

But that was many years ago: before Roe vs Wade, in fact. Now I have become convinced (though, at the time, reluctantly) that abortion offers a series of insults and defeats to women.

(1) It pathologizes her own body, even when it is doing a normal, natural, healthy, and even impressive thing: producing a new human being.

(2) It makes her wholeness, especially her sexual wholeness, a source of dread, as if she should be alarmed and react negatively to the fact that she embodies beautifully intact functioning female powers.

(3) It obliterates her bonding with her first child (if it is, as is typical, a would-be first-born that she is abortion), which is disastrously bad karma.

(4) She gets to be abjectly exposed and objectively violated by a man with a knife, she's sent out bleeding and in pain, and she's supposed to smile and say "What do I feel? Oh, relief, relief." And then she'll feel: nothing. A numbness,. And that's supposed to show it's all OK.

(5) In the longer term, if she comes to life inwardly again and works through ambivalence and then remorse, she'll be mocked, trivialized, and silenced by the so-called "women's" "movement."

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As a self-respecting woman and an active advocate for women, I've written and published articles in favor of abortion rights. But...	Julianne Wiley	Aug 7, 2007 11:33
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