Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Reproduction in Science Fiction

This article examines how science fiction looks at human reproduction.  Consider that forced reproduction is not just a violation of the body, but often amounts to a couple decades or so of slavery in the form of forced child care.
Tags: gender studies, networking, reading, science fiction
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catsittingstill

catsittingstill

March 26 2012, 14:55:18 UTC 9 years ago

I think it is not quite right to characterize the argument about abortion as being really about raising children.

It is *also* about raising children, but it is mostly about punishing people who have sex while female with forced parasitization--or about enslaving us to have unwanted babies. This seems to be in order to force us back into being sexual gatekeepers--which is also (and probably not coincidentally) a way of making us subordinates in society, less likely to get a good education or a good well respected well paying job.