Honoring the feminine divine means trusting women as full moral agents with control over their own bodies. Period.
In the past year's war on women and especially on women's access to reproductive health care, one of the hidden justifications is that women can't be trusted with their own choices, either because they're ignorant or because they're just not capable of making good choices for themselves. Look at forced ultrasound requirements before abortion: the people who make the laws will explain, time and again, that the procedure is for a woman's own good, so that she is "fully informed" before making a momentous decision. It's inside her own body - do you really think she doesn't know what's going on?
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Joseph, I have no idea at the precise moment when the fetus becomes a person. The point is that, this is mainly a women's issue, m
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Diotima: I'd have posted this as a reply to your post, but for some reason the site isn't letting me do that. So, here I am. 1. I
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Interesting point Anne. Whenever women's choices are challenged, it pushes "a handmaid's tales" button. The artificial environment
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I have always been 100% pro-choice (and still am) but can't help but ponder than this entire issue may be moot in our children's l
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I'd love to see artificial gestation as a potential solution, although it's going to become just as thorny in terms of funding and