Casualty of controversy: The pro-choice movement
When I was in second grade, I had a teacher who decided that we were mature and responsible enough to be allowed to chew gum in class. I brought a stick of Wrigley’s in my pocket every day for weeks. I felt more grown-up and freer than my friends who were in the other second-grade class and were not allowed to chew gum. My teacher trusted me, and I appreciated her trust.
Then, just as the other teachers began to see the light and think about relaxing their rules, Ryan had to go and stick his piece of gum in Sarah’s ponytail. It was an innocent enough act that had a lot more to do...
You'll defend free speech with your life? Please join the Coast Guard. You won't have to go to Iraq, you won't even have to put your life in jeopardy, you'll be defending freedom of all kinds (including speech) and you will be doing your country an enormous service.
Or perhaps just retract your empty boast.
O'Hagan, the repeat abortion rate is something like 45%. Don't kid yourself.
(and I'm pro-choice)
Who exactly is the Coast Guard fighting that threatens free speech? Cuban exiles and Columbian drug runners may not be your cup of tea but they're not coming to the U.S. to create some sort of totalitarian society where you have to watch what you say. The U.S. government is doing a good enough job of that already.
no-- this article doesn't take a moral stance on abortion (thank you for that). it doesn't call abortion "disturbing." instead, it's discussing the possible perceptions (and misperceptions) of abortion by anti-choice movements and they way in which they will manipulate this art into anti-abortion. besides, "abortion-on-demand" as you call it (or the choice to have an abortion) is very fundamentally different than having multiple ones for art.
"It is hard to tell a 14-year-old rape victim that she has to carry that baby for nine months instead of going to ninth grade. It is hard to tell a young woman who practices birth control and struggles to support herself that abortion should be illegal."
Yes, rape is tragic and anyone who violates a woman should be severely, severely punished, but killing the baby (or what will eventually, indisputably become a baby) will not help the situation in any way. As far as that woman struggling to support herself...100% of women who do not have sex do not get pregnant. I know, I know- deny yourself sex???!! OMG. Horror of horrors.
"Pro-choice" is far too broad a term, by the way. It does not factor in the possibility that the fetus (which, again, will indisputably become a human baby, not a puppy or a goldfish) might actually want to live. We "anti-choicers" are trying to speak for the ones who, if born, wouldn't even be able to speak coherently for years.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Basically what you're saying is that you are angry with Shvarts for making the pro-abortion crowd realize how disturbing abortion on demand truly is.