June 20, 2007
The one where I am unable to control my sarcasm.
Jill at Feministe notes that illegal abortions are on the rise in Iraq. She then makes some cracks about conservatives not caring about women and America destroying the world (corrected to "the worlds of many Iraqis") as a reason for Iraqi women avoiding childbirth.
I'm sure that before the war, when Iraq was idyllic and peaceful, except for the human shredders, prisons for children, and war with Iran and then Kuwait, Iraqi women were all in a big hurry to have babies. But now that evil America has destroyed their worlds, and the hopeful days of the Saddam Hussein regime are behind them, of course women would choose to abort their babies. Wouldn't you?
Posted by Karol at June 20, 2007 03:34 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Abortions+in+Iraq Iraqi+Women
Just reading Jill's take made me want to abort a baby. Isn't Jill sort of an idiots' name?
Posted by: ari at June 20, 2007 04:10 PMBy all means, let's reopen the rape rooms that were so crucial to the rights of women living under Saddam.
I'm starting to think Jill doesn't get out much.
Posted by: Eric at June 20, 2007 04:10 PMI thought everybody just flew kites during the good ol' Saddam days, although didn't they need kids back then to run through the battlefields to clear out the landmines for the army? Or was that the Iranians? Six or one half dozen, I s'pose.
Posted by: Marco at June 20, 2007 04:18 PMYeah, someone should ask Iraqi women whether they were more happy before or after we invaded.
Posted by: Sam L. at June 20, 2007 05:59 PM"Yeah, someone should ask Iraqi women whether they were more happy before or after we invaded."
How about you ? We could have a whip round on Alarming News and you could post back.
Posted by: Urbane McMeercat at June 20, 2007 07:59 PMIt's actually pretty funny that by offering to send me to Iraq presumably to indicate that I'm a coward or that you would like to see me placed in a dangerous situation, you tacitly admit that post invasion Iraq is a horrible, horrible and dangerous place to go.
That aside, I couldn't find any polling broken down to show how women feel about the invasion versus the Iraqi public as a whole, but here's a great article in the IHT about women's rights in post-invasion Iraq. Then again, the IHT is owned by the NYTimes, which I hear answers only to the Islamo-Communists at the UN or something.
Posted by: Sam L. at June 20, 2007 08:43 PMThat, of course, was way back in early 2005. I'm sure by now the position of the Conservative Muslims is much weaker, and women's rights are flourishing.
Posted by: Sam L. at June 20, 2007 08:45 PMConsider the source. Jill is generally hopeless. I find her "I'm oh so cool going to law school, lookit me, lookit me" superficiality, and "I'm the über mistress of international reproductive rights law" shtick to be totally tiresome. Oy vey! Such wisdom from a 20-something year old.
Posted by: Redhand at June 20, 2007 09:16 PMHoly shoot, did you guys read the comments section of that article?
I wonder if they’ll blame the American soldiers who raped them? Not saying all American soldiers rape. But it is completely naive to think that they’re all 50s-era Boyscouts.
...every last female vet that I’ve talked to in depth enough to address the issue has said that she was sexually assaulted while in the military
I don't want to live in the same country as these people any more. I really see a mutually-agreed-upon dissolution of the union in the next 10 years.
I realize that people with brains have to periodically wade into the fever swamps to dissect the admittedly foreign to logic arguments used there. Otherwise, such idiocy can metastisize. However, I wish that we could simply ignore them into non-existence.
I don't mind contrary views. However, I'm not too keen on insanity masquerading as logic.
Posted by: physics geek at June 21, 2007 01:23 PM
