Feedback- Jim Wallis
Monday, February 07, 2005 - 03:34 PM
I doubt that any woman looks forward happily to having an abortion. I'm sure that's true. But many women who have abortions have them with relief. When I had my early-term abortion at the age of 48, I was profoundly relieved that abortion was safe and legal. There was no way that I was going to have a baby at my age, and it would certainly have been more detrimental for my physical health, not to mention my mental health and life for nine months to bear a child and give it up for adoption. So Jim Wallis's position has no effect on women in my circumstances. Wallis still seems to think that women's ability to make moral decisions for themselves is somehow less than society's desire to make those decisions for women or that women, once they become pregnant, have given over their moral agency to their fetuses. I still believe that born women, with histories and lives, have moral agency that supersedes that of a potential life that can't exist outside the woman's body. If that makes me an extremist, I guess I am an extremist.S.R.
Jim Wallis' religousity limits the perspectives and range of view
points we can use to discuss issues affecting America. Conceding the
discussion to a religious viewpoint gives greater fuel to the right and
strengthens the control institutionalized religion has on America. R.B.
The woman who phoned in at 11:30 hit the nail on the head - There is no evidence of "religion" in the Bush administration and obviously they use religion only as a tool to gain more power and "rule" the world through their corrupt and evil ways - I can't imagine that there are many Americans that can really fall for that - They drop in the word God and faith along with terrorism and 9-11 and weapons of Mass Destruction - Its just a marketing campaign with strategically placed words that have alternative meanings behind them. Gaining control under the guise of the "religious" and spreading their "democracy" - using religion as a marketing tool. I hope the nation wakes up because our constitution is at risk. J. in Manhattan
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