Abortion isn’t a light word! As a topic it can be rather sensitive and arguable. Even the toughest off feminists have given “it” sensitive names such as “the most difficult decision” “tragic”. (Jessica Valenti) I won’t discredit the feeling aspect or the moral piece being hard or tragic but even these names by feminist seem to come with the cost of one’s moral compass. Isn’t it time we cut through the BS? In the article Abortion isn’t about the right to privacy. It’s about women’s right to equality. Jessica Valenti says “it’s time for the pro-choice movement to lose the protective talking points and stop dancing around the bigger truth: Abortion is good for women.” In this discussion on abortion lets center topics of morality and destruction of our ecosystem and why in eco-feminists Hawkins says it’s tied to women’s reproductive Right. Eco feminist Hawkins takes us into the extinction of species to the extinction of mankind and why it should be wrapped up in women’s equality and their reproductive Rights around the world.
“One of the most important issues in biomedical ethics is the controversy surrounding abortion. This controversy has a long history and is still heavily discussed among researchers and the public—both in terms of morality and in terms of legality.”
There are 3 different standpoints of abortion. Traditional pro-life, pro-choice and the middle. There are many different extremes to abortion. Traditional pro-lifers believe a baby is formed at conception, were as pro-choice believe that it’s not til after birth. The middle is they believe an abortion is just is certain cases such as rape. I think the biggest thing I learned in the readings was thet morality is taught and it by a law and the way we were brought up on how we might decide.
Morality is that neverending conversation of law and ethics. We can dive into the morality of abortion which has been a topic of traditional account for centuries. Women have been, dominated by this topic of right and wrong under the pressures of white male supremacy for a thousands of years. Isn’t not allowing women the rights to their own reproductive system immoral? Lets not forget about the Women who are suffering the most from these laws. Women in 3rd world countries who are closest to areas, not only suffering from land degradation and poor health, but from inequality. Hawkins talks about land degradation being perpetuated by lower class people in poverty. When the land doesn’t have any more to give they move on to survive. “This planet has over 1 billion people in poverty”. (Hawkins). Many women in these places don’t have access to safe birth control or safe health care. It could most likely be a topic of the privilege in this case. What about the destruction of our planet from a moral high ground that too many people will kill us all. Hawkins keeps a very high level of care by sharing her passion for all life. That it takes being aware of everything as a whole then as separate with quasi rights. I think what I’m really learning from Hawkins is that everything is precious but we honestly don’t treat everything as precious. Hawkins asks her reader to dig into a deeper sense of mother. To be smart and good to the children you have and plan for life.
Women in Nepal.
Telling women by law what they can and can’t do with their bodies is by definition a form of slavery.
Slavery comes in many forms and this is just another way women have been controlled and just maybe how the Mother Earth is being controlled.
Many feminists believe Abortion is a necessity for millions of women worldwide, for their health, for their wellbeing, for their dreams of a better tomorrow. The reality is that a woman will seek an abortion—legal or otherwise—almost instinctively and in self defense. A woman will do this when an unwanted pregnancy presents an excessive strain on her or her family’s physical, emotional or economic resources. Throughout the ages, courageous women have made it their right and indeed their responsibility. In a civilized society we owe women the legal right to make their decision safely.
http://feminist.org/rrights/
Eco-feminist Hawkins shares their view on abortion with less of a dramatic approach and high ground for abortion. Hawkins talks about the environment and her love for all life. She writes that too little attention has been given the moral implications, from an environmentalist perspective and whether or not it is morally okay to bring up another child in the world. To put it bluntly Hawkins speaks from the legal standpoint of the earth the animal and the water and the air. In the last two hundred years our planet has grown from one billion to 7 billion. This amount of growth to environmentalist is not sustainable. We must take different looks and start changing the traditional thinking that has been dominated by the white supremacy. The land degradation from globalization along with resources being depleted by everyone rich and poor. We have taken a impatient look at overpopulation. Overpopulation has turned to the abuse of animals and animals being genetically modified to grow faster to feed more people. How is this ethically or morally ok?. How Is it healthy? As of present time, recognition of our connectedness with all other life on this planet reinforces the need for abortions. (Hawkins) I bring up this quote and the talk of the chicken because it seems so separate, but it’s not. With overpopulation we are slowly harming ourselves and destroying creatures. So many creatures have gone extinct due to our growth as humans. Everyone has a place here but maybe not for much longer. I agree that eco-feminists can talk about abortions more and create more dialogue about the destruction of this awesome planet. I believe that it is partially due to the education of contraceptives and sexual health. Women without rights to their own bodies are slaves and so is the planet.
Animals by law have quasi rights. Rights to stay alive. So a rhino that is going extinct can’t really be protected though morality says don’t kill that animal. Morality is different from place to place. Will Animals be able to save themselves from our own destruction?
True fact no animals are found after natural disasters such as tsunamis. The animals are normallly found way up in the mountains. One researcher says it’s because they know the earth better than we do.
Take a look at the world clock for reference on the destruction of forests, the pollution of forests and the population of humans.
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock/
I agree that abortion isn’t just necessary because people will get them anyway, or because our privacy is important – but because women’s desire to seek the life they want in the way that men can is our right and its purpose, not a side effect.
Society benefits when women can commit to education and work and dreams without having at the back of their mind that maybe it’s all provisional, because at any moment an accidental pregnancy could derail them for life. The planet benefits when women can commit to education and work and dreams without having at the back of their minds that it’s all for nothing the world is done for anyway. (Jessica Valenti)