Comments on: More Thoughts on the Generational Divide http://feministsforchoice.com/more-thoughts-on-the-generational-divide.htm Pro-choice and Proud! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: freewomyn http://feministsforchoice.com/more-thoughts-on-the-generational-divide.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2685 freewomyn Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:48:44 +0000 http://feministsforchoice.com/?p=3660#comment-2685 Great points, CMF. I couldn't agree more. TR, that wake up call is for everyone, not just women of a certain age. Great points, CMF. I couldn’t agree more.

TR, that wake up call is for everyone, not just women of a certain age.

]]> By: TR http://feministsforchoice.com/more-thoughts-on-the-generational-divide.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2674 TR Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:24:40 +0000 http://feministsforchoice.com/?p=3660#comment-2674 I am a fortunate beneficiary of ROE V. WADE, just 5 years after it became the law of the land, close enough to the political fight to understand the urgency required now to keep it a right. The anti abortion zealots have made many gains over the past 15-20 years, as the pro-choice forces have been asleep at the wheel. Time to wake up people, or you will lose your right soon enough!! I am a fortunate beneficiary of ROE V. WADE, just 5 years after it became the law of the land, close enough to the political fight to understand the urgency required now to keep it a right. The anti abortion zealots have made many gains over the past 15-20 years, as the pro-choice forces have been asleep at the wheel. Time to wake up people, or you will lose your right soon enough!!

]]> By: Carolyn Marie Fugit http://feministsforchoice.com/more-thoughts-on-the-generational-divide.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2673 Carolyn Marie Fugit Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:53:37 +0000 http://feministsforchoice.com/?p=3660#comment-2673 Yes, we understand the importance of abortion. We don't have to have known women who nearly died of a botched illegal abortion to understand that. Instead, we went to high school with girls who are pregnant and understand the importance of education in oh so many forms. The pre-Roe generation isn't all pro-choice, either. My mom, my grandmothers, my aunts, all were adults in 1973, but none of them are pro-choice. What is it with this idea that being older gives one the hand-up on being pro-choice or, better, yet, simply being pro-choice? We still care about abortion, but some of us younger ones can't get into activist overdrive -- we pick an issue or two and fight tooth and nail for it. We care about the other things, we vote for elected officials that support our POV, but that doesn't mean we can just get up and protest every weekend. My favorite was watching pre-Roe people lambaste post-Roe people when a room was split about 50-50. Yes, we understand the importance of abortion. We don’t have to have known women who nearly died of a botched illegal abortion to understand that. Instead, we went to high school with girls who are pregnant and understand the importance of education in oh so many forms.

The pre-Roe generation isn’t all pro-choice, either. My mom, my grandmothers, my aunts, all were adults in 1973, but none of them are pro-choice. What is it with this idea that being older gives one the hand-up on being pro-choice or, better, yet, simply being pro-choice? We still care about abortion, but some of us younger ones can’t get into activist overdrive — we pick an issue or two and fight tooth and nail for it. We care about the other things, we vote for elected officials that support our POV, but that doesn’t mean we can just get up and protest every weekend.

My favorite was watching pre-Roe people lambaste post-Roe people when a room was split about 50-50.

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