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Here's a question. At the moment what percentage of my government is anti-life?
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Once again, it's not an issue about who is pro-choice or anti-abortion. This was covered in the original thread, and as I pointed out: it doesn't matter if the majority of people in a group are one or another. The people who have the []true legislative power[/i] and global influence (thus, my comments about the Global Gag Rule*) get to decide. You're ignoring issues of
actual power, which doesn't surprise me since you're ignorant enough to claim women aren't still under the thumb of male privilege in politics.
But once again, you're avoiding my questions in regards to women, equality and politics (being what this thread was about), which I should have expected from you, really.
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I think anti-porn is rather consistent with a feminist stance.
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Actually, it's not, but considering you "don't have time" for feminism, I can't expect you to know this, can I.
The Anti-porn crusaders was a culturewar fad (similar to the whole Gay-marriage thing now) which (similar to other censorship campaigns in the past, eg- Comic paranoia in the 1940s) united a number of various groups against a common cause they saw as destructive. Personally, they were totally off the mark, but Dworkin made a bigger idiot out of herself
because she was a feminist, rather than a conservative crusader or something. The plain-old lies about the pornography industry they used to promote their case did nothing, and, as the current size of the pornography industry shows, had no impact on society.
So Sweetie, unless you're actually going to back up your claims of the equality women have supposedly gained in society and politics, I think this thread was a waste of time.
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To elaborate, since you seem to need some kind of illustration: In Uruguay in 2004, the country was set to decriminalise abortion due to growing concerns in the society as to the way it was seriously impacting the health of women. In the general populace, there was a high level of support for it (63%), as there was in the House of Reps when they voted on the bill (47 for, 40 against, 10 absent). It was constantly being pushed by women's groups and health professionals (who were the ones most affected by the laws - ie politically invested in the movement), but when the Senate went to vote on it, under the gise of the Global Gag Rule, 6 US Republican senators put the hard word on members of the Ururguayan senate and got the law blocked, with 17 against & 13 for. They also, undemocratically, I might add, suggested in their communication that the Urugayan government not "leave it up to a referendum", and all the Urugayan people to decide how their country works.
See my point, Sweetie? Those with the power control the decisions, no matter what the general opinion on a topic.