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Speak Out: I Had an Abortion
With artistic presentations by Swoon & Linda Zacks
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posted by Antlers at 6/02/2005 11:57:00 AM
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Just got listed in gawker!!!!!!
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you promise this is the last reminder?
If you remind me about this tomorrow about then's yesterday... I'm gonna be so pissed.
Damn it, I do not want to speak out about my abortion, or the pollip that I had removed from my ass!
I do not want to talk about anything in my medical file. Not my breast lump, or my ointment, or my toe fungus.
When will these people get it- That my body is MY business, and just F-OFF and LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!
I definitely don't want to hear about your polyps. The point is not to force anyone to speak about anything he or she doesn't want to speak about. Rather, the film broaches a taboo subject, and most women's experience with it is of a different sort of enforcement--that of silencing. Every leap forward for reproductive freedom began with women speaking openly about their abortions, refusing to be ashamed and guilted for them. It's incredibly important that the complexity of women's different experiences is shown because it rectifies the mythology around abortion--that women go off casually and have abortions, or that it's sexual, or that it only happens to bad, irresponsible girls. None of this is true. An illustrative example: the film screened at the Fargo Film Festival in Fargo North Dakota and there were protestors inside and out. One young pastor, after seeing the film, stood up and apologized to his fellow pro-lifers in the audience, saying the film had really changed him and that though he had come to protest the film he'd never feel the same about the procedure again. He thought that careless women were going off and having wild unprotected sex and having abortions repeatedly as birth control for the careless. If you know anyone who's told you about their abortion you realize that this assumption is completely insane and is really getting at the wrong points--that because of the complexities of each case it's incredibly important to defend every woman's right to an abortion under whatever circumstances she faces. Speaking out about the need for this right makes that demand real and human. So, please don't feel pushed to speak about your experience, but please don't censor others in this important work.
I think you missed the point of my post. Maybe my irony was too stuble.
*By posting, I AM speaking out, and uniting my voice with others.
*My argument is that the pro life nazis should leave us alone. They are wrong to force private medical matters into the political arena, and they are wrong to create a sense of shame.
Thats why I mentioned other types of embarrasingly private conditions.
My post was a form of sarcasim. Sorry it got lost in the translation.
Gotcha, my mistake. Always on the defensive over here in pro-choice land. What's going on with the attack on Planned Parenthood's records is especially scary.
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