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Romulox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 11:20 AM
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204.  "Even if every woman in America supported our civil rights..."
This is the problem with your thesis: a large number of women disagree with you on the issue of abortion.

For you to dismiss any woman who disagrees with you as a victim of "faith terrorism" (sic) is both demeaning and infantilizing to women--who are, after all, human beings with full moral agency.

As for the rest of your post, you are trying to shove a non-gendered issue into a box in which simply does not fit. American Politicians are largely unresponsive to the electorate, full stop. A fine example is the recent bailout of Wall Street. The bill was pushed through the House over the opposition of 70% of the electorate by some polls.

The person doing the shoving? A woman. Hard to fit this into your thesis w/r/t coercion and "faith terrorism", isn't it? That's because power is not gendered in our society--it's monied.
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