tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19481383.post113349965475584366..comments2023-06-20T08:20:24.701-07:00Comments on The Argument Clinic: Feminists and Abortion: A Question and a RequestRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07160061641869302097noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19481383.post-1133817664653307702005-12-05T13:21:00.000-08:002005-12-05T13:21:00.000-08:00Clearly the cooperation has to begin at the decisi...Clearly the cooperation has to begin at the decision to have sex, and at that point both partners should be committed to each other and to any children their union produces. After that point, neither should be able to coerce the other to abort, or reneg on their original commitment to each other.<BR/>Women would still have control over their bodies when providing an abortion is illegal, but would no longer have control over anyone else's reproduction.John Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15367755435877853172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19481383.post-1133739567425222602005-12-04T15:39:00.000-08:002005-12-04T15:39:00.000-08:00"Partnership" means sharing decisions and burdens...."Partnership" means sharing decisions <I>and</I> burdens.<BR/><BR/>Coercing a woman into remaining pregnant puts burdens <I>purely</I> on the woman. Pregnancy presents non-negligible risks to health (both physical and mental). Occasionally, complications in pregnancy are even fatal.<BR/><BR/>Coercing a woman into having an abortion strikes me as potentially as emotionally damaging as rape. Again, the burden is <I>overwhelmingly</I> on the woman alone.<BR/><BR/>Everyone has a right to control their own bodies. That this right gives women more <I>power</I> over pregnancy is a <I>biological</I> inequality (not a social or political one). Equal <I>rights</I> means more that women have more <I>power</I> over pregnancy because <I>women get pregnant</I>.<BR/><BR/>If you want men to have equal power over pregnancy, find a way for men to get pregnant. Most feminists simply don't think that's a practical goal.L33tminionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06072892843237363419noreply@blogger.com