Recommended Reading #146: Digging Deeper, Pt. VI
“Brownback, Jesus and Mary: Religious Freedom Apparently Doesn’t Apply To Women Seeking Abortion” by Amanda Marcotte (Reproductive Rights, U.S. Public Policy, Religion) 4/21/13
There are multitudes of reasons I unambiguously support a woman’s right to choose to undergo an abortion and correlatively want the procedure to be safe, competently administered, and accessible. While it’s not at the very top of the list for me (largely because what is is purely ideological, intangible, and feels complicated to articulate, as well as because I don’t see every anti-choice effort as based on religion), I do appreciate the fact that anti-choice legislation that is based on religion is a violation of the citizenry’s religious freedom. I see this piece as doing a nice job outlining why, and I also appreciate its commentary on what I find the dismaying success the conservative right movement in the U.S. has seemed to have in whitewashing this circumstance.
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“Friends With Benefits Over 50: Another View” by Joan Price (Sex and Culture, Relationship, Sex and Aging) 4/25/13
I appreciate the offerings in this piece about both the general potential loveliness of FWB relationships in this piece and the idea of their happening at any given 18-or-older age. I can hardly imagine why they wouldn’t/couldn’t! While I actually wouldn’t assert anything about how people should interact with their other or primary partners regarding other sexual relationships (not because I blatantly disagree with the assertion in this piece that other partners should be aware of these relationships, but rather because I don’t feel it’s appropriate for me to speak to how people handle their relationships if I am not a part of them), I like the thrust (ha) of this article a lot.
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“Why does America lose its head over ‘terror’ but ignore its daily gun deaths?” by Michael Cohen (Non-Sex-Related, Sociology, U.S. Public Policy) 4/20/13
I appreciate the perspective I interpret this as offering of the strange (arguably nonsensical) perspective U.S. culture collectively seems to demonstrate around threats of violence or harm in different contexts.
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