tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post1947353364383261540..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Abortion and historical misogynyLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-46952690254383016222009-05-22T11:00:38.580-06:002009-05-22T11:00:38.580-06:00I would like to think that a thousand years from n...I would like to think that a thousand years from now contraceptive technology would be so advanced that an abortion will no longer even be necessary.Tommykeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751182125861177379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-85358576045720306342009-05-22T09:56:51.942-06:002009-05-22T09:56:51.942-06:00I'm not following you on this one... I agree with ...I'm not following you on this one... I agree with you both that women have been brutally oppressed and that they deserve control over their own reproductive rights (as well as all other rights imparted to men). However, I do not see how that logically entails that we must view the current situation within the context of that brutal history. I think a perfectly valid case can be made for the reproductive rights of women based on rational grounds, while the argument you seem to be making here is one couched in the emotional recoil one feels from mind-boggling historical oppression. The sentence which particularly jumped out at me as almost dogmatic rhetoric was "We must see anyone who opposes any restriction on any right of self-determination of any woman as in league with and on the side of the rapists, honor killers, acid throwers, and the billions of men who have stood throughout history on the necks of women without the slightest degree of pity or remorse."Mozglubovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04803674886685831282noreply@blogger.com