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John McCain is a stupid white man.
Oct. 16th, 2008 08:07 pmIn last night's presidential debate, John McCain used finger quotes around "women's health", to emphasise exactly how meaningless and facile a concept that is, and how much disdain he has for women, their health, and presumably, a decent proportion of their vote.
Hi. I am aware of my limitations. I am, particularly, aware of the fact I needed a two-hour nap after school today, because I am just that much made of fail. But, you know. I'm a human being. I'm an individual, and I'm a woman, and my body belongs to me.
Also? I am a baby lawyer. One day, I'll just be a lawyer. Small, timely reminder today of why that is, and why that's important. Constitutional literalism is an interesting thing; the right to privacy that Roe v Wade is based on does not, according to some commentators, have a constitutional existence. Now, I'm not an enormous fan of the American fetishisation of constitutional sovereignty anyway, but that's not the point. So help me god, the point is that women are people. That a human body, and what goes into it, and what feeds off it, and what may be done to it, is solely within the domain of the person it belongs to. As this post about constitutional literalism points out, it's not just Roe v Wade, either. The so-called right to privacy covers contraception and other reproductive freedoms, too. And, you know, freedom matters. Whether you squeeze it out of a centuries-old document or you stand up and say, from radical cloth, that women are people, it's kind of important.
I'm really not a great believer in armchair activism. I'm a baby lawyer for just that reason. Because I can blog, and express outrage, but also, can go to school every day and read my textbooks and pass my exams and grow up to be someone who matters. And now I return to the black lagoon. I have a) a lot of land law and b) no spoons at all.
Hi. I am aware of my limitations. I am, particularly, aware of the fact I needed a two-hour nap after school today, because I am just that much made of fail. But, you know. I'm a human being. I'm an individual, and I'm a woman, and my body belongs to me.
Also? I am a baby lawyer. One day, I'll just be a lawyer. Small, timely reminder today of why that is, and why that's important. Constitutional literalism is an interesting thing; the right to privacy that Roe v Wade is based on does not, according to some commentators, have a constitutional existence. Now, I'm not an enormous fan of the American fetishisation of constitutional sovereignty anyway, but that's not the point. So help me god, the point is that women are people. That a human body, and what goes into it, and what feeds off it, and what may be done to it, is solely within the domain of the person it belongs to. As this post about constitutional literalism points out, it's not just Roe v Wade, either. The so-called right to privacy covers contraception and other reproductive freedoms, too. And, you know, freedom matters. Whether you squeeze it out of a centuries-old document or you stand up and say, from radical cloth, that women are people, it's kind of important.
I'm really not a great believer in armchair activism. I'm a baby lawyer for just that reason. Because I can blog, and express outrage, but also, can go to school every day and read my textbooks and pass my exams and grow up to be someone who matters. And now I return to the black lagoon. I have a) a lot of land law and b) no spoons at all.
