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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Little Eddie Simmons shows off his misogyny.
- Message-ID: <36033@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:01:46 GMT
- References: <lm8rioINNgt7@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> <C1JC78.4rF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <36031@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <C1JC78.4rF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- writes the usual pro-force devaluation of the lives of women in the
- course of injecting his bias-laden drivel into Adrienne's chiding of
- Paul Brinkley:
-
- Deletia to get to the essence of a typical pro-force devaluation of
- the lives of women:
-
- >As of right now, this is Mother vs. Unborn Baby. Either one is killed,
- >or both live and one has 9 months of discomfort (not including the
- >actual birth).
-
- The essential misogyny of the pro-force position is captured by the
- reduction of the experience of forced pregnancy to `9 months of
- discomfort.' Let's analyze the contents of the 9 months of discomfort
- and assess the appropriateness of the label for the experience:
-
- Economic costs: (1) Lost wages. (2) Lost career advancement
- opportunities. (3) Employment gap on the resume.
-
- Emotional costs: (1) Trauma of being forced to use one's body to host
- an entity that you do not want. (2) Enduring unwanted and eminently
- avoidable changes in one's body. (An observation that the emotional
- effect of living with unwanted changes in one's body might be an
- unpleasant side effect of forced pregnancy has no necessary
- relationship with the motivations for terminating said pregnancy.)
-
- Health costs: (1) The mortality risk from carrying a pregnancy to term
- and bearing a child is many times higher than the mortality risk. (2)
- The risk of temporary disabling conditions resulting from carrying a
- pregnancy to term and bearing a child. (3) The risk of permanent
- disabling conditions resulting from carrying a pregnancy to term and
- bearing a child.
-
- I have little doubt that anyone who said that such risks to persons of
- color was little more than discomfort would be branded a racist.
- Hence, I have no trouble with the conclusion that anyone who writes
- with such disdain for the lives of women is a misogynist.
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