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No signs, no yelling, no chanting. Virginia legislators had to walk to the ‘big house’ past a sea of silent stony stares. Most of the organization for this protest came about on Facebook. The women of Virginia will fight back.
Suddenly this year, 2012, women are no longer capable of having a say in their own reproductive decisions. Unacceptable.
The Moonhowlings blog will continue to cover this topic as long as there is an assault on women’s reproductive rights. Women only have economic equality when they control their own reproduction.
Just this week, one of the main reproductive rights groups called and wanted money. They were national. I told them no, my money will stay in Virginia. We have enough problems here.
Why are legislators deciding when life begins when scientists and theologians have debated the issue for eons without coming to agreement?
Different people have different beliefs here. Again, the govt. shoving religious beliefs down the people’s throats.
Just asking, but ‘reproductive rights’ is that a new PC phrase for ‘abortion rights’, or is the government actually trying to prevent women from reproducing? Which is it?
reproductive rights is not new SA, maybe to you, but not to women who have spent their lives concerned about women and their rights to their bodies.
Your question is meant to be obtuse, why? You are a smart person, you read the headlines, its about forcing women into circumstances where there are few choices for them, especially the ones with little to on financial means.
I used that terminology 40 years ago. Does that make it new?
Yeah, nothing new about the term “reproductive rights” except the effort to squelch them.
I honestly have not heard the term before. To me a right is something you feel you should be able to exercise. It’s just that ‘reproductive rights’ seems slanted towards wanting the right to ‘reproduce’ which doesn’t seem to be what people are arguing about. They seem to be arguing about contraception, and abortion. Both are the opposite of reproduction. Sounds logical to me, but admittedly I haven’t been heavy into the coverage of either.
SA-people want the right to control their own reproduction. Reproductive rights include it all. I can see where you are not familiar with the word though. Usually it is a term women use.