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- From: quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi)
- Subject: Re: Choice?
- Message-ID: <BxwCo6.9vx@nic.umass.edu>
- Keywords: abortion, pornography
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- References: <jay.1.722047982@uuserv.cc.utah.edu> <1992Nov18.023636.15090@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:31:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.023636.15090@midway.uchicago.edu> mec6@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >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.
-
- I've seen this connection made a fair amount before. Gayle Rubin, for
- example, is clear about linking these things (though it is only
- tangential to her wider pro-sex position). Annie Sprinkle, whom you
- mention in your post, has said this in interview. I've seen it
- "floating around" a fair amount, though more explicit cites are
- eluding me right now.
- BTW, rini, I just LOVE a.sprinkle from interviews I've read,
- but haven't seen her or her film(s). If you feel like talking about
- the film any further on this group, I would hang on every word.
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