Comments on: Her take is dead on http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2004/03/14/her-take-is-dead-on/ dawn friedman's blog Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:45:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: MommaJo http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2004/03/14/her-take-is-dead-on/#comment-10310 MommaJo Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:35:56 +0000 http://thiswomanswork.com/?p=1066#comment-10310 Bottom line in this issue, mental Illness or no, Rue VS Wade protects this woman's right to not have the c-section. No one HAS to have surgery, (Roe VS Wade doesn't cover that lol) the Docs screwed up here by not getting this woman the help she needs. Now I don't believe in abortion, BUT our laws make it legal. So charging a woman with homicide over a stillborn baby (fetus) is wrong. Are they going to charge every woman seeking abortion??? Every woman who miscarries, I've had 2 miscarriages, am I next in line to be charged??? This country needs to decide on what they wannt and stick to it. They can't have it both ways. Bottom line in this issue, mental Illness or no, Rue VS Wade protects this woman’s right to not have the c-section. No one HAS to have surgery, (Roe VS Wade doesn’t cover that lol) the Docs screwed up here by not getting this woman the help she needs. Now I don’t believe in abortion, BUT our laws make it legal. So charging a woman with homicide over a stillborn baby (fetus) is wrong. Are they going to charge every woman seeking abortion??? Every woman who miscarries, I’ve had 2 miscarriages, am I next in line to be charged??? This country needs to decide on what they wannt and stick to it. They can’t have it both ways.

]]> By: Moxie http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2004/03/14/her-take-is-dead-on/#comment-10309 Moxie Tue, 16 Mar 2004 04:28:33 +0000 http://thiswomanswork.com/?p=1066#comment-10309 What I think is a huge issue here is that there's no guarantee that a C-section would have saved the baby. What I think is a huge issue here is that there’s no guarantee that a C-section would have saved the baby.

]]> By: Jo http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2004/03/14/her-take-is-dead-on/#comment-10308 Jo Tue, 16 Mar 2004 02:50:45 +0000 http://thiswomanswork.com/?p=1066#comment-10308 Thanks for posting that, Dawn. It's too easy to just buy the media's portrait of the situation -- saves us from having to think about all the difficult issues underlying this horrible situation. Thanks for posting that, Dawn. It’s too easy to just buy the media’s portrait of the situation — saves us from having to think about all the difficult issues underlying this horrible situation.

]]> By: Shamhat http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2004/03/14/her-take-is-dead-on/#comment-10307 Shamhat Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:26:50 +0000 http://thiswomanswork.com/?p=1066#comment-10307 I haven't been able to read comments reliably on the blogs that have the trackback link (Body and Soul, Chez Miscarriage, A Little Pregnant, among others--is that Moveable Type?) for days. There was a brief moment on Saturday when they all worked, and then they were all gone again. This bothers me more than it probably should. I've even tried using other browsers and ICQ'ing people who are completely uninterested in the topics discussed on those blogs, just to ask if they can read the comments. Which reminds me, anyone who is expecting a baby in the near future should consider adding an RSS feed. I haven’t been able to read comments reliably on the blogs that have the trackback link (Body and Soul, Chez Miscarriage, A Little Pregnant, among others–is that Moveable Type?) for days. There was a brief moment on Saturday when they all worked, and then they were all gone again. This bothers me more than it probably should. I’ve even tried using other browsers and ICQ’ing people who are completely uninterested in the topics discussed on those blogs, just to ask if they can read the comments.

Which reminds me, anyone who is expecting a baby in the near future should consider adding an RSS feed.

]]> By: shannon http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2004/03/14/her-take-is-dead-on/#comment-10306 shannon Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:27:02 +0000 http://thiswomanswork.com/?p=1066#comment-10306 This whole thing reminds me of the highly-touted "sneaker crimes" in the eighties, when the media started making fabulous claims about the violence of Black teenagers killing each other for shoes. My partner studies this stuff and has yet to find proof that any such thing ever truly happened (killing for shoes--cut and dried). Yet another way to villianize the poor and blame the oppressed for their own misery. Seems appropriate this attitude should resurface now, during the Bedtime for Bonzo remake that is the Bush administration. This whole thing reminds me of the highly-touted “sneaker crimes” in the eighties, when the media started making fabulous claims about the violence of Black teenagers killing each other for shoes. My partner studies this stuff and has yet to find proof that any such thing ever truly happened (killing for shoes–cut and dried).
Yet another way to villianize the poor and blame the oppressed for their own misery.
Seems appropriate this attitude should resurface now, during the Bedtime for Bonzo remake that is the Bush administration.

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