{"id":5666,"date":"2019-11-14T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2019-11-14T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:25:12","slug":"a-walk-to-work-of-slogans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/14\/a-walk-to-work-of-slogans\/","title":{"rendered":"A walk to work of slogans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking at the buttons on the backpack of the person in front of me on my walk to work this morning, and thinking I agreed with most of them. One of them said “she, her, hers” preferred pronouns so I guess I am safe to call the person a woman. Other buttons said things like TAA – the organization that represents teaching assistants on the UW-Madison campus – and Planned Parenthood, and there was a rainbow diversity button. One of the buttons, though, said “abortion is normal”, and I spent awhile turning that one over in my head. I guess abortion could be called biologically normal – a miscarriage could be called a type of aborted pregnancy. But, I’ve terminated more than one pregnancy myself, and I somehow can’t call abortion normal. It’s a hard choice, and sometimes the best choice. I firmly believe that abortion is an absolutely necessary option, and should be safe and legal. It’s the true irony of the pro-life movement that they call themselves pro-life, but in reality are anti-child, since they do not advocate for healthcare and education for the children who would be brought into the world by parents who cannot support them. I wish her button had said “abortion is a routine medical procedure” or my favorite “if you think abortion is wrong, don’t have one”.<\/p>\n

Then as I went a little further along, I found this embroidered patch fallen out of somebody’s pocket.<\/p>\n

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I picked it up and put it into my pocket<\/p><\/div>\n

Words for the day.<\/p>\n

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