http://blog-aauw.org/2009/11/10/from-the-real-to-the-ideal-a-womans-nation-and-the-gender-gap-for-women-in-health-care/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:00:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog-aauw.org/2009/11/10/from-the-real-to-the-ideal-a-womans-nation-and-the-gender-gap-for-women-in-health-care/#comment-4599 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:27:42 +0000 http://blog-aauw.org/?p=3862#comment-4599 Abortion rights is the single most polarizing issue for women’s rights in general. This has been detrimental even to the pro-life movement.
If women are to succeed in having the ability (and courage) to direct their own destiny, then we have to find common ground so that pro-life, anti-abortion, and pro-choice feminists can work together on other issues.
Abortion is terribly sad, especially for someone like me who has dedicated her life to the health and welfare of children. I do not know the answers for all, I am not even sure I know the answers for myself.
For better or worse, the emancipation of any ethnic, gender, minority, subjugated group is dependent on choice. And for better or worse, it is a woman’s body that has to bear the unborn child. Thus there is a conundrum that I won’t even try to solve in this column.
You make many good points, but let’s stick to what change we can effect and what choices we can enhance together.

]]> http://blog-aauw.org/2009/11/10/from-the-real-to-the-ideal-a-womans-nation-and-the-gender-gap-for-women-in-health-care/#comment-4550 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:34:03 +0000 http://blog-aauw.org/?p=3862#comment-4550 I’m all for equal pay, and women’s health rights, but I draw the line at abortion rights. A pre-born baby is still a baby. Roe V. Wade was decided upon the right to a woman’s privacy, thus avoiding the issue of the rights of the unborn child. If we don’t value ALL human life, then we deteriorate as a society and will start down the ‘slippery slope’ of deciding who’s life has more value than whom.
Come one, does it make sense for a women to be able to put an end to the life of her own baby; but, punish someone for destroying a Condor egg? And, how many women are aborting children suspected of having Down’s Syndrome, or some other birth defect. Do we really believe the message that a disabled life is not a worthwhile life?

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