|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
PHI332 : The Class : Argument ID : Sample Quizzes : Exercise 2.13.6
Feminist accounts explore the connections between particular social policies and the general patterns of power relationships in our society. . . . When we place abortion in the larger political context, we see that most of the groups active in the struggle to prohibit abortion also support other conservative measures to maintain the forms of dominance that characterize patriarchy (and often class and racial oppression as well). The movement against abortion is led by the Catholic church and other conservative religious institutions, which explicitly endorse not only fetal rights but also male dominance in the home and the church. Most opponents of abortion also oppose virtually all forms of birth control and all forms of sexuality other than monogamous, reproductive sex; usually, they also resist having women assume positions of authority in dominant public institutions. Typically, antiabortion activists support conservative economic measures that protect the interests of the privileged classes of society and ignore the needs of the oppressed and disadvantaged. Although they stress their commitment to preserving life, many systematically work to dismantle key social programs that provide life necessities to the under class. Moreover, some current campaigns against abortion retain elements of the racism that dominated the North American abortion literature in the early years of the twentieth century, wherein abortion was opposed on the grounds that it amounted to racial suicide on the part of whites. (365).
Once you have completed this excercise you should:
Go on to Exercise2-13-7
or
Go back to Sample Quizzes
E-mail George Rudebusch at George.Rudebusch@nau.edu
or call (520) 523-7091
 |
|
Copyright © 2001 Northern
Arizona University
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED |