Comments on: U.K. Antis Take Pages From U.S. Play Books http://thecurvature.com/2007/10/15/uk-antis-take-pages-from-us-play-books/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:47:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Debs http://thecurvature.com/2007/10/15/uk-antis-take-pages-from-us-play-books/#comment-1693 Debs Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:49:03 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/2007/10/15/uk-antis-take-pages-from-us-play-books/#comment-1693 Thank you so much for posting this! Yep, it's all happening here in the UK at the moment, and it all seems to have a worrying 'pro-life' slant to it. The documentary is the worst part, I think - I really don't see the value in actually showing footage from abortions unless it is just to give the 'pro-lifers' more ammunition to use against women. I cannot understand why they feel the need to show it at all, except to say that one prominent ex-politician has been quoted as saying she hopes it opens people's eyes - so is that the point; to make people who aren't sure about abortion get off the fence and land in the 'pro-life' camp? I don't know. The review is frightening too, and has the same flavour of putting the squeeze on abortion rights, to which the logical conclusion would be the criminalisation of abortion. These reviews seem to happen a lot here, though, and not much changes - I think they just like to keep the issue in the spotlight so us lowly women don't get too complacent about our right to a safe, legal abortion. Thank you so much for posting this! Yep, it’s all happening here in the UK at the moment, and it all seems to have a worrying ‘pro-life’ slant to it. The documentary is the worst part, I think – I really don’t see the value in actually showing footage from abortions unless it is just to give the ‘pro-lifers’ more ammunition to use against women. I cannot understand why they feel the need to show it at all, except to say that one prominent ex-politician has been quoted as saying she hopes it opens people’s eyes – so is that the point; to make people who aren’t sure about abortion get off the fence and land in the ‘pro-life’ camp? I don’t know.

The review is frightening too, and has the same flavour of putting the squeeze on abortion rights, to which the logical conclusion would be the criminalisation of abortion. These reviews seem to happen a lot here, though, and not much changes – I think they just like to keep the issue in the spotlight so us lowly women don’t get too complacent about our right to a safe, legal abortion.

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