The tyranny of experience in abortion rights discourse has potentially disastrous consequences.
I wrote “Abortive Reasoning: What’s Wrong with the Reproductive Rights Debate” with Eugenia Williamson, and it appears in the latest issue of The Baffler.
An excerpt:
In light of how abortion has subtly come to be redefined not as a feminist issue but as a women’s issue, we are compelled to ask: Is the feminist a person? To pose this question at all is to reorient abortion rights as a set of fundamental economic and political matters. It is also to state that feminism itself is not just about women, or about who has or does not have a womb. We argue for a politics of feminism that goes beyond personhood, one that encompasses the lives and desires of all who search for a more just and egalitarian world. But first we must ask how we arrived at this dark climacteric in abortion politics.
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