Okay, so this post is going up the day after the 88th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. I guess I delayed saying anything because I didn’t have anything immediately clever or interesting to say outside of “Thank god it’s in the Constitution.” But upon reading Bitch PhD’s blog post about going to an equality-for-women party at the DNCC, I realized that “Thank god it’s in the Constitution” is sadly a profound thing to say.
Ah yes, feminists = baby killers. Tons of anti-abortion protesters outside the University Club protesting the “Women’s Equali-Tea” on Women’s Equality Day at the DNCC. Lots of cops, too, just in case any of us butch feministas decide to pop a protester in the mouth. (Kidding! I kid!) Actually, the protesters were by and large young, hip-looking women; whoever coordinated this particular protest was pretty savvy about appearances.
In other words, anti-choice protesters were protesting a party that was organized to celebrate women’s suffrage. It makes sense. The hard right wingers try to filter every objection they have to women’s rights through the abortion lens, because they know that bald protestations against women’s basic rights tend to go over poorly. (Except for some reason, the Title IX whiners don’t feel any need to hide their agenda.) But with the fancy new “everything’s abortion” argument, I expect we’ll start seeing some creative inroads against arguing against other rights for women.