Friday, November 5, 2010

Take That, Susan B. Anthony

Eleven women stepped up to challenge anti-choice incumbents in the State Senate this year. All eleven lost. This year, the ratio of women to men in the State Senate is about 1 to 6. It may be worse when the dust clears. Happy 90th anniversary of women's suffrage.
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5 comments:

Simon said...

I was thinking you'd be talking about these folks:

http://www.sba-list.org/

Not necessary, I guess.

November 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Anonymous said...

Um.... Susan B. Anthony was ardently anti-abortion, so I'm not sure she would have backed your eleven candidates. Would you back a woman candidate who was pro-life?

November 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM
KAZ said...

Susan B. was ardently anti-abortion because at the time, abortion killed women. She considered abortion another example of man's inhumanity to women. The SBA list is an example of gross revisionism. If Anonymous is asking whether I'd back a woman just to be backing a woman, the answer is absolutely not. Examples include Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, neither of whom I'd support if they were running against Idi Amin.

November 6, 2010 at 7:45 AM
Anonymous said...

Kind of jumping the shark aren't you... voting for a guy who killed upwards of half a million people over Palin or Bachman. My point was more, does a woman have to be pro-choice to be the pro-woman candidate? I'm thinking for groups like NOW and "feminists" that's the case. I'm pro-choice with restrictions, but it doesn't escape me that millions more female fetuses are terminated every year worldwide because they are female not male. I've always been curious how the sits with pro-choice women.

November 6, 2010 at 9:47 PM
KAZ said...

I can only speak for myself. I am not a single-issue voter, and it makes me sad that some people are. I vote in the U.S., not India or China. I don't know what "feminists" are; feminists include a group called "Feminists for Life" and SBA-list, so I don't think you can so easily stereotype them. NOW, of course, is fervently pro-choice.

November 7, 2010 at 12:34 PM

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