Damn patriarchy (and uber-stupid FfL)!

(Your ball of fluff is still adorable BTW, thanks for inflicting the cuteness.)

Oh, shit. That’s right. There isn’t that sort of Phase 2, because if you’re not pre-born, you’re on your own and off their radar. Next fetus, please!

Topic shift:

How’s Bert been doing at night? How many litter-mates did he have? Where does he sleep now? Does he know that I love him? Don’t tell me you haven’t told him yet….

Feminist 4 Life, killa. Recognize.

But still.

Also, Bert’s doing great. He has a bladder the size of a pea, but he likes his crate, which is right next to my bed, and last night I only had to get up twice to let him out.

BTW, just got back into town. Congratulations on the dog, no doubt named for Bert Parks.

I think part of where I’m coming at this from is being a Catholic myself, and having long thought that yeah, in a religion where motherhood is absolutely central (leaving aside the many, many misogynist sins of the church), there’s a space for the argument that what’s needed is a world in which motherhood is *so* central that abortion and all the other reproductive and feminist issues would be integrated into the larger society. I do think that abortion will always be necessary (and I’m not 100% clear on whether Feminists for Life really wants to go so far as to make it illegal, or whether they’re more interested in changing social conditions to make it rare), and I’m a little wary of an organization that could play so easily into the hands of the Operation Rescue crowd. But I’m not entirely sure that the aims of a pro-woman organization that wants to create a world that’s better for women and mothers are necessarily bad, skeeved though I am by the potentially patriarchal overtones. I’d really have to know more about the organization (and Ms. Roberts’s own views) to know for sure if this is patriarchy under another guise, or a radically feminist world view.

We have taken all the necessary contraceptive steps, but on the off chance that I get pregnant I will have an abortion.

I know feminists try to explain the reasons why women have abortions and highlight the social/economic structures which make it difficult to continue with a pregnancy, but we also have to face the fact that some women want to have sex, but do not want to have (more) children.

That is why a large percentage of women who have abortions are married and already have children. They know what mothering is all about and how having another child will change their lives and they would prefer that not happen.

Shutting down the patriarchy ain’t going to make me have more babies.