God and Abortion Rights Jill at Feministe writes from the viewpoint of most of the religious people I know, in contrast to those who get to be on TV, about the religious folks who have always allied themselves with Planned Parenthood. And I liked her final clarification:

Allow me to clarify a minor point. I wrote about this because I thought it was interesting, not because I think that religious beliefs should at all influence legal standards. They shouldn’t. That should be obvious enough from everything I’ve ever written here.

And, not to criticize anyone in particular, but I’m quickly tiring of the legal strawman that is too often propped up in response to any assertion or observation. If I say, “I think it’s really abhorrent that Neil Boortz said that Rep. McKinney looks like a ‘ghetto slut;‘ if you support him by listening to his show, now might be a good time to stop,” it doesn’t mean that I’m trying to legally infringe on Neil Boortz’s legal right to free speech (and I’m not the government, so, you know, that would be tough for me to do either way). And if I say that religious people have had, and continue to have, an influence on abortion rights, it doesn’t mean that I think religion should dictate law on abortion. Ok, bitch over. _
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10:01:18 AM, Tuesday 4 April 2006

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Amanda Marcotte and I are the same age and came to our feminism in pretty similar ways. _
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