In the fight against the systemic oppression of women, every voice matters.
I’m trying to work out what exactly pro-lifers want, because when they say it’s simply for unconscious, heartbeat-less foetuses to be taken to full term, I already smell a rat. There’s talk, of course, about traditional values. But when we delve deeper into said traditional values, it’s obvious we’re talking about restrictive social codes that hark back to a time when the repression of women was evenrampant.
The core argument behind traditional values, after all, is to sharpen the amorphous boundaries of womanhood, to control it, leaving no room for manoeuvre. Clearly, that Biblical social stigma for women still hangs around like a bad smell. A woman following her desires, her education, her libido, is evidently still considered shameful to some.
I also think it’s important here to differentiate women’s rights from human rights. Women and men aren’t the same. My feminism is centred on the idea of being different but equal, in that differently sexed bodies aren’t chromatically identical, but they should have the same rights, the same opportunities. And everybody should have a say in what happens to their particular mortal coil. Bodily autonomy can’t be something only women want, surely? It’s humiliating they even have to ask for it.
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