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RC

(25,592 posts)
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 12:40 PM Sep 2012

From LTTE:"More white male desire to control"

To follow his use of the “logic” of generalization, VanderMeulen’s letter beautifully illustrates this nation’s classic privileged white male belief that he should be able to control a woman’s body. His conflation of abortion with the death penalty is illogical, and his callous suggestion that it is just a matter of “location” illustrates a disturbing lack of empathy.

Regardless of whether one believes life begins at conception, the emphasis should be upon the mental and emotional well-being of the rape victim, not upon the continued control and violation of her body.

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/374359/group/Opinion/


Well stated. This needs to be spread around.
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