September 5, 2008
Choice
From Gary Younge of The Nation: “The fact is, Bristol could make the decision to keep the baby only because, in legal terms at least, she had a choice. A choice, as it happens, that her mother wants to criminalize… The woman who would like us to keep her daughter’s pregnancy a private matter is running for office so that she can make the pregnancies of other people’s daughters an affair of the state. ” (via Broadsides).
Excellent point, and one I hadn’t thought of.