“Abortions for everyone!”
Rebecca “Commie Girl” Schoenkopf, editor of our sister paper, L.A. CityBeat, has a way of putting things:
Prop. 4: Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor’s Pregnancy. No.
One of our favorite parts of the last presidential debate was watching undecided Ohio lady voters’ squiggly lines on CNN max out when Barack Obama started talking ’bout ’bortion. We’d forgotten that, despite the keening caterwauls of the You Killed A Baby Brigade, even undecided lady voters in Ohio want the government out of their parts.
Now, we’re not one of those feminists who think pro-life people are necessarily Christianist paternalist wackos who believe ownership of a woman transfers from her father to her husband. We have, in the past, been pro-life ourselves, until we just couldn’t hack the hypocrisy of all our pro-life compadres spitting on unwed mothers and considering welfare “theft.” (Unwed motherhood only being admirable when it comes to teenage Palins.) We believe people of goodwill can disagree when it comes to abortion – in fact, on some days, we disagree with ourself.
But if anyone should have abortion on demand – no waiting period, no notification, not even a copay! – it’s the teens, who can’t very well loiter in the liquor-store parking lot with a baby on their tit. Abortions for everyone! In fact, they should come with an iPod.
The last time this initiative came down the pike, we asked our pro-life Catholic mama how she’d be voting. “Against,” she said serenely, and we were surprised. Why? “Because teenagers shouldn’t have to tell their parents shit.”
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