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Edit: link removed; on some discussion I've realized it had some problematic points, all unrelated to the text below, which I cannot support.
A good friend once told me that she admired my solidarity in support of abortion. There was something about this that irritated me, though it took me a bit to articulate it. It certainly wasn't anything about that friend as, then as now, she is well and truly among my most dear.
What brought it together for me was an exchange one spring day in a university class. It was "Computer Ethics," a philosophy class, required for my major which I took as a student (while also an employee) of a Jesuit university. I cannot now recall exactly what we were discussing that day, but it had to do a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The critical point of the discussion was the concept of rights existing in the penumbra of others.
Over the past four years I have often had to fight various people, particularly medical and mental health professionals, for that right to my own body. Every one of these battles has been an application - in the penumbra - of that basic right: I, as a woman, having the right to control of my own body. Although I will never personally have need for the procedure, in this way, abortion directly impacts me, and attacks on it do wound me.
A good friend once told me that she admired my solidarity in support of abortion. There was something about this that irritated me, though it took me a bit to articulate it. It certainly wasn't anything about that friend as, then as now, she is well and truly among my most dear.
What brought it together for me was an exchange one spring day in a university class. It was "Computer Ethics," a philosophy class, required for my major which I took as a student (while also an employee) of a Jesuit university. I cannot now recall exactly what we were discussing that day, but it had to do a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The critical point of the discussion was the concept of rights existing in the penumbra of others.
Over the past four years I have often had to fight various people, particularly medical and mental health professionals, for that right to my own body. Every one of these battles has been an application - in the penumbra - of that basic right: I, as a woman, having the right to control of my own body. Although I will never personally have need for the procedure, in this way, abortion directly impacts me, and attacks on it do wound me.
