{"id":1206,"date":"2004-10-28T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T18:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/28\/amanda-on-reproductive-rights\/"},"modified":"2004-10-28T10:42:29","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T18:42:29","slug":"amanda-on-reproductive-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"Amanda on Reproductive Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really good post at Mousewords<\/a>. Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

There’s no reason to think that reproductive rights are secondary–a society’s well being can be gauged on how much control the women have over their child-bearing. It’s undemocratic to think that women cannot be expected to choose the proper number of children to bear and when best to bear them. When women have full control over that, many other things fall into place. My girlfriends and I are all living examples of this fact, as is practically every woman I know.<\/p>\n

Being products of the feminist era, we all believe in choosing the time your children are born, and even in choosing whether you have them at all. None of us at the table had children, but many of our friends do and they are happy and doing fine, which they would not be doing if they had them younger. None of us have children, and all of us are productive members of society with good jobs and stellar voting records. All of us–all the women at the table and all that we know in our lives–expect that their relationships with men will be mutual, supportive and loving. And because of this, those of us in relationships are happier than we might have been in the past and those without are not wallowing in shame but reveling in freedom.<\/p>\n

All of this is what they want to take away from us, if they take away our basic reproductive rights, and we know it.<\/p><\/div>\n

Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Really good post at Mousewords. Here’s a sample: There’s no reason to think that reproductive rights are secondary–a society’s well being can be gauged on how much control the women have over their child-bearing. It’s undemocratic to think that women … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}