- Mar 2017
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the stereotype that the people working to end abortion hate women.
I would not say that the stereotype is that pro-life people hate women, but that they fail to support women in whatever decision they make.
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This movement will thus be unable to unite American
The language of this article is being exclusionary itself, ironically arguing against exclusion, by assuming that all women at the women march were American women. It also depends on what it means to be an American Woman is, who is considered in that.
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while the Women’s March claimed to stand for love, nonviolence and inclusion, its organizers staunchly refused to extend that “inclusion” to pro-life women.
As a class we are reading Threshold Concepts, which tells us about the different waves of feminism, and how the 2nd wave was heavily based around the decision to legalize abortion. Feminist issues in America are still largely based on health care rights, especially now again that they are in crisis under President Trump.
Class question: Can you be a feminist and be pro-life?
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The men I work with are creating a culture in which their own wives, daughters and sisters are empowered and supported.
This sentence further perpetuates this false idea that men can only care about women in relation to them, wives and daughters, why not ever women as a whole or even women in a friend position.
Class question: Are statements like these, about men caring about women only in relation to themselves, more helpful or harmful?
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The men I work alongside want to end abortion not because they want to control women, but because they agree that requiring the sacrifice of a woman’s children in exchange for her success is unimaginable.
Technically, everything will be "unimaginable" to the men she works with because they will never experience women's issues, so bringing them up should have no effect on the reader.
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To us, “resistance” has to include opposition to the lie that freedom can be bought with the blood of our preborn children.
Every woman has a different meaning of freedom and opportunity for it, especially when thinking about social status, class, race, etc. so the "us" statement is unclear who the writer is talking about. For example, 69% of women who have abortions, are economically disadvantaged.
http://prospect.org/article/demographics-abortion-its-not-what-you-think
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How the New Feminist Resistance Leaves Out American Wome
After reading the article, I was very confused at the end by the title. The articles main point is about the exclusion of pro-life women in the current feminist movement, such as the march, but what does that have to do with "American women"? Are they assuming maternal problems and abortion are only an American issue? That in itself is problematic.
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