Thinking and Walking - At the Same Time!
There's a transit strike in Ottawa, so I'm walking an hour and a half to work on sidewalks that haven't been plowed because winter now comes as a complete surprise to Ottawa City Hall.
Our Mayor, is "mentally challenged".
But walking to work knee deep in snow, breathing the exhaust fumes of single occupancy SUVs for an hour and a half, gives one plenty of time to think - and this morning I caught myself thinking about abortion (and retro-active abortion, actually, since SOMEONE voted for Mayor Larry O'Brien) and I reached this conclusion:
Choice Is Everything
And it's true. There's no arguing with people who want the State to make a ruling on abortion because there's no compromising on the issue of abortion rights that won't compromise women's human rights. It's like that Seinfeld episode, "you either have grace, or you don't". Women either have choice, or we don't.
It's terribly, awfully, brutally simple and you're entitled to your moral objections. But anything less than "abortion is a legal medical procedure" and women may as well move en masse to a country where women are at the mercy of fate and your moral objections mean she has no autonomy over her own body.
Let's face it, men run everything - still - every corporation, every union and every government. Men have all the power everywhere in the world and probably always will.
And/But - they can't be pregnant. They can only decide the fate of girls and women - who can be pregnant. In a civilized world, they'd bow out of the debate, but we don't live in a civilized world, so they're still in it.
Even though it's December in Ottawa, we're in the middle of a transit strike (let's just guess at the male to female ratio of OC Transpo drivers - shall we?), the men are in charge at City Hall, and the women of Ottawa are slogging their way through unplowed sidewalks to get to work.
Leave abortion to the gals and just clear the sidewalks of snow, fellas.
