Pro-choice/anti-abortion polarization

Sometimes it seems that two opposing groups have nothing in common. If police perpetuate this view, it increases tension between the two groups and a shouting match ensues Yes vs. No, Black vs. White with no middle ground for a rational discussion. After talking calmly with two young men from the "other side" (i marched with pro-choice crowd) i was told by a cop to return to "my side" or i would be arrested. They objected to the end of our conversation but i was able to hand off a slingshot anarchist magazine to one of them before i was yanked back to "my side" of the dividing fence. Wonder if the anti-abortion organizers allowed him to read the magazine..

Personally i feel protecting women's right to choose is more valuable than attempting to understand the Christian view that abortion is wrong and needs to be outlawed. This is not the time or place to attempt to revoke a woman's right to choose. Other options to reducing the amount of abortions include better access to contraceptives and also medicinal plants that decrease fertility or even have the same effects as abortions..

This link has info on medicinal plants used by the Sabah people to induce abortions;

http://www.ids.org.my/idsgroup/vaic/R&D/article1.htm


Finally and most importantly is improving the condition of the world a child is born into. War, chemical/nuclear toxins in air/water/food, poverty, race/class discrimination are just some of the serious issues children must face after birth.

If an anti-abortion group claims "pro-life" and supports the Bush administration and his conservative Christian backers (ex. Falwell/Robertson) they are sorry ass hypocrites. There is no way you deserve to call yourself pro-life and simultaneously rally behind a tyrant who advocates depleted uranium bullets as a means of enforcing "democracy" in Iraq and elsewhere. Not to mention the Bush/Christian mafia support the genocidal acts of Israeli government against the Palestinians. Yucca Mt. nuclear waste dump site will be a domestic byproduct if Bush & Co. have their way. More cancer for babies in Nevada, Iraq, and elsewhere..

If this "feminists 4 life" group wants to save any shred of self respect 4 their cause, they would be wise to distance themselves from the Bush/Falwell pro-war imperialist mentality..

Final question 4 the "fems 4 life";

Do u want to reduce the amount of abortions young women are having?

Me too. Personally i don't really like abortions but preventing a woman's right to choose is not the way to actualize this. Maybe working to end poverty, war and pollution will make the world a better place to want to have children in. Teaching teenagers how to access/use contraceptives will prevent those unwanted pregnancies from happening. Nobody really wants to have an abortion, it is a last resort choice by a woman in desperate measures..

Of course women deserve better. They deserve a world without nuclear radiation, pollution, poverty and warfare to have children in. When this is actualized, maybe abortions will finally become a non-issue..

Here's the website 4 the "fems 4 Life" group. Maybe we can leave our "my side" comfort zones and engage in dialogue with the opposition to discover common ground..