Statement on the reversal of Roe v. Wade
May 28, 2024 18:53:26 GMT
Post by Stella on May 28, 2024 18:53:26 GMT
I'm going to write this blog post, or attempt to, according to American English standards and stick my thesis statement up front and front and centre. Having just written a blog post on equality I am of the opinion that the sanctity of human life demands total equanimity with the sanctity of human environment. Life does not occur without an environment. The basis of your physical body is an ovum in your mother's womb. Freedom of choice is a fundamental human right which I hope I should not need to explain. Abortion is part of that freedom of choice.
What does it really mean to be a woman in society?
If you are perceived as a human being born with a vagina you are treated differently from the outset than if you aren't. You're considered public property until you are 'claimed' through marriage, you have a different set of social responsibilities to men, and you are raised generally to settle, to accept, to create a home, function in a relationship and have children. You are probably not encouraged to wander and explore the same way men are, and despite advances in women's rights there's still a culture of androcentrism where the human default is male and women are perceived as supporting, additional, judged far more for their looks and relationship status than for their creative and intellectual achievements and abilities.
Womanhood is interchangeable with motherhood, for a major part of being a woman is the potential and capacity to be a mother and to assume the fundamental responsibility for shaping a child from the moment of birth until said child reaches the age of 18 and enters the Real World as an adult. I'm fairly sure that as a woman you're accustomed to such questions as:
This is a matter of social consensus, influenced very heavily by tradition, religious tradition, and centuries of religious and political oppression where it was determined that women were nothing more than chattels or property to be exchanged between families through marriage for the purposes of procreation, domestic servitude, and sexual servitude, where the very foundation of a woman's social responsibility was to her husband and to her family....read more
What does it really mean to be a woman in society?
If you are perceived as a human being born with a vagina you are treated differently from the outset than if you aren't. You're considered public property until you are 'claimed' through marriage, you have a different set of social responsibilities to men, and you are raised generally to settle, to accept, to create a home, function in a relationship and have children. You are probably not encouraged to wander and explore the same way men are, and despite advances in women's rights there's still a culture of androcentrism where the human default is male and women are perceived as supporting, additional, judged far more for their looks and relationship status than for their creative and intellectual achievements and abilities.
Womanhood is interchangeable with motherhood, for a major part of being a woman is the potential and capacity to be a mother and to assume the fundamental responsibility for shaping a child from the moment of birth until said child reaches the age of 18 and enters the Real World as an adult. I'm fairly sure that as a woman you're accustomed to such questions as:
- Do you have children?
- Are you planning to have children?
- When are you going to settle down and start a family?
This is a matter of social consensus, influenced very heavily by tradition, religious tradition, and centuries of religious and political oppression where it was determined that women were nothing more than chattels or property to be exchanged between families through marriage for the purposes of procreation, domestic servitude, and sexual servitude, where the very foundation of a woman's social responsibility was to her husband and to her family....read more