My short take on the Kevin Williamson saga is to say that I’m not convinced that we should pillory someone for following the anti-choice stance to its logical conclusion. In my opinion, a large part of the problem with this debate is that anti-choicers have been allowed to set the rules. The pro-choice camp keeps letting them (the misogynists) claim that this is about babies, not about women.
By jumping to say how terrible it would be to treat women who have abortions like murderers, pro-choice advocates aid and abet the misogynists who use the abortion debate as a smokescreen for what it’s really about.
It’s about women. It’s about oppressing women by reducing their ability to acquire power.
If we insisted that these idiots actually carry the ‘murdering babies’ argument through to its end, then it would finally, openly be about women. And the whole damn thing would fall apart.
Say: Ok – treat us all like murderers in the criminal justice system. I dare you.
Seriously propose to arrest the roughly 650,000 women who have an abortion each year in America.
Seriously propose to put them on trial for murder. And the women who had the 650,000 abortions the year before that. And the year before that.
It would be easy to find them guilty. There are medical records. Not hard to prove.
So why don’t they say that’s what they’ll do when they manage to overturn Roe and all these women are officially criminals?
Because they don’t really want us all dead or incarcerated. They just want us disenfranchised, economically trapped, dependent, and unable to resist the demands of the patriarchy: to serve and support the lives of men.
I’d love to see “Turning Ourselves In Day.” Imagine it: millions of women show up to their local police stations, en masse, and demand that they be taken into custody. Millions of women saying, “I’m your sister, your daughter, your mother, your neighbor, and you need to arrest me because, according to you, I’m a murderer.”
Go ahead. I dare you.
Martini Wisdom 