Will the Last Woman With a Voice, Please Turn Out the Lights
The national fight by anti-abortionists, un-winnable for the time being, is being fought instead in the states, where it makes considerable headway.
As an instance, both Florida and West Virginia passed legislation recognizing an embryo as an independent victim of homicide. Missouri has a special session coming up in early September, called by the governor to consider three anti-abortion proposals. A near record number of laws have been passed in various states this year regarding various restrictions on a woman’s access to both abortion and contraception. The national attention is on Judge John G. Roberts, but the national pressure is building quietly and effectively, state by state.
That pressure and that direction and that oratory is male dominated, by an enormous margin.
Preachers, priests, pastors, evangelists, legislators, lobbyists, fund-raisers, contributors, the conservative core and the wild-eyed fringe are overwhelmingly male. There was a time in human history when prieste…