First let me say thank you for this post. I don't even watch BSG (no sci-fi channel) but I can fully understand your frustration because any time I have seen some sort of choice issue brought up on tv this kind of backlash has occured. And it makes me grind my teeth to the nerve because to me the mere thought of denying a woman the right to make choices about her own body is against everything that makes me who I am.
However, this was not something I grew up with in my home, as it was for you. I myself developed this sensibility later in life when I escaped the confines of the small town where I grew up and against everything that I was (and still am) told by the right wing, bible-thumping-when-convenient family that raised me. My only reason for telling you this is to let you know (as I am sure you already do, but I want to make this clear just in case) that this later development of my own pro-choice stance, before which I pretty much just didn't take a position at all, is no less an integral part of who I am as it would have been had I grown up in a different context, and is also not malleable. It is not simply intellectual, nor is it academic, even if academia is where I learned best to defend my position on the matter. It is a matter of morality, of love, of what makes me the person I am. And what sickens me along with the anti-choice flame wars that arise around this issue is the domination and entitlement of the anti-choice right over the word "moral". Fuck that shit.
And one other thing I should mention is that I do think that some regulation is needed around abortion, insofar as it is a medical procedure that must first protect the health and welfare of the person seeking the abortion. In other words, regulation to make sure people aren't forced to get cheaper or more readily available abortions by dangerous means. You get what I am saying.
Anyway, yeah, you rock and I agree with you wholeheartedly.
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However, this was not something I grew up with in my home, as it was for you. I myself developed this sensibility later in life when I escaped the confines of the small town where I grew up and against everything that I was (and still am) told by the right wing, bible-thumping-when-convenient family that raised me. My only reason for telling you this is to let you know (as I am sure you already do, but I want to make this clear just in case) that this later development of my own pro-choice stance, before which I pretty much just didn't take a position at all, is no less an integral part of who I am as it would have been had I grown up in a different context, and is also not malleable. It is not simply intellectual, nor is it academic, even if academia is where I learned best to defend my position on the matter. It is a matter of morality, of love, of what makes me the person I am. And what sickens me along with the anti-choice flame wars that arise around this issue is the domination and entitlement of the anti-choice right over the word "moral". Fuck that shit.
And one other thing I should mention is that I do think that some regulation is needed around abortion, insofar as it is a medical procedure that must first protect the health and welfare of the person seeking the abortion. In other words, regulation to make sure people aren't forced to get cheaper or more readily available abortions by dangerous means. You get what I am saying.
Anyway, yeah, you rock and I agree with you wholeheartedly.