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Bodily autonomy and abortion justice / Judith Levine

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Judith Levine on her article "Abortion is a Public Good" for Boston Review, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen agrees that the Big Coin should drop. https://bostonreview.net/law-justice-gender-sexuality/judith-levine-abortion-public-good

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0:00.0

The water is with the

0:10.0

the water is with the our power and water

0:12.0

I was going to take it back a matter.

0:13.0

Take it down. This. This is hell with Texas.

0:35.0

Hell.

0:37.0

Live from the United States where capitalism is the virus.

0:42.0

This is hell with Texas. capitalism is the virus's new anti-abortion law that turns every resident into an

0:49.8

anti-abortion vigilante suddenly every Texan's pregnancy is every Texan's business.

0:56.3

This new law, SB 8, as it is designated in Texas, causes inequality and enforces patriarchy, giving even more power to men over women.

1:08.6

The belief is that Roe v. Wade's decision would always protect women's rights.

1:13.0

In fact, the logic behind Roe is one of protecting reproductive rights through the legal

1:17.5

precedents surrounding privacy, and once privacy is applied, it opens the door to regulating pregnancies.

1:24.0

Then there's the problem with the logic of choice as our guest today writes

1:27.6

choice is a consumerist concept and a bourgeois privilege.

1:31.1

The neoliberal myth that your fate is your choice and your troubles are your fault

1:35.0

obscures history, economics, and social reality.

1:39.5

Now there was a time when reproduction was not

1:45.0

doctor, the medical profession, and until the late latter half of the 19th century,

1:47.0

the primary caregivers during pregnancy were not doctors,

1:50.0

but midwives, doula's and female healers.

1:52.0

That is, until reproduction was captured by capitalism in the market.

1:56.0

Being part of the market, capitalism does to pregnancy what it does to everything else.

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