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Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice

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I appreciate what Kathy Rudy is trying to do with this book, but I wonder if it isn't based on a romantic communitarian myth about the essential unity of all women if only we could get right- wing women to change their minds about abortion.

I am a pro-choice Catholic woman,and I really have to ask why she didn't bother to have a look at the work of Catholics for a Free Choice or the WomenChurch movement before she made inaccurate generalisations about faith and feminism. For the record, pro-choice Catholicism is not coeval with liberal Catholicism, no what Rudy believes. I think most pro-choice Catholics would prefer an ethics of open communitarianism and preferential option for the poor and oppressed. Indeed, it is the paradox between anti-abortion social policies that leave women bleeding and dying from backstreet abortions and the call to serve the poor and oppressed that drives most pro-choice Catholics I know. As far as the comments about intellectual disability goes too, Rudy needs to have a closer look at the exact nature of some forms of foetal disability that render viability impossible. I wish Rudy and Faye Ginsburg would wake up. Romantic communitarianism will not help women. Practical solutions will, including a more just society for reproductive choice to occur in.