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- From: mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini)
- Subject: Re: Choice?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.025121.15495@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: abortion, pornography
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <jay.1.722047982@uuserv.cc.utah.edu> <1992Nov18.023636.15090@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:51:21 GMT
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- From uchinews!quads!mec6 Fri Oct 30 12:03:34 CST 1992
- jay@uuserv.cc.utah.edu (Jay Deuel) writes:
-
- >As my first posting to this group, I would like to pose the following:
- >
- > Why do feminists consider a woman's right "to do with her body what
- >she will" so basic when talking about abortion, yet so forien when the
- >subject is pornography? How about prostitution, suicide, drugs, etc.?
-
- This is an interesting question.
-
- The only time I have seen this sort of juxtaposition before was in
- a tract from Feminists For Life (who argue that abortion is just
- another form of control of the female body that must be rejected).
-
- I haven't seen it put forth by the pro-choice/pro-porn/pro-prostitution
- camps before, but maybe I'm missing something.
-
-
- This reminds me... pardon the tangent here.... This weekend I saw
- Annie Sprinkle's recent movie. (For those who don't know, she's been
- a porn star, prostitute etc. for decades, and is now a "post-porn
- performance artist.") I was happy to see that at the end of
- _The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop_, she gratefully
- acknowledged the funding of two organizations: PONY (Prostitutes
- of New York), and Labia: An Organization of Pro-Sex Feminists.
-
- rini
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-