Freethinking for Dummies

The War Against Woman Has Real Consequences

When will people realize that denying a woman an abortion has real life and death consequences? PZ Myers has a very sad and scary example on his blog.

It isn’t just that abortions are harder to get, but also that many health care professionals have been scared off by the terroristic activities of the anti-abortion crowd. This means that even where abortion is legal, when a woman needs a life-saving abortion, often there isn’t anyone available to perform one.

How long will we allow the elite, white, male, christian dominated right wing to dictate what a woman can and can’t do with her body?  That a woman, any woman, should risk losing her life just because some religious zealots want to make everyone else live their lives according to their interpretation of an archaic, iron age text, is unconscionable.

May 31, 2011 Posted by James Walker | Feminism, Humanism, Religion, Social Justice | 1 Comment