by Susan Nash
English professor
By any standards of reality, the crosses in the quad misrepresent the world of fertile women. Are we to conclude that every Ohio woman who has an abortion is a Christian?
More importantly, fields of unwound metal coat hangers – the instruments of desperate choice for many years before Roe v. Wade — should mark the suffering and deaths of women who were determined to end their pregnancies. And hundreds of thousands of small dolls should represent those babies planned and delivered by joyful mothers.
Why does the far right demand uncompromised individual (and, recently, corporate) “liberty,” but oppose it for women? Where is the individual liberty in denying the delivery of contraception services by attacking Planned Parenthood and thus condemning women to endure unwanted pregnancies?
The organizers may be sincere in their concerns, but, in this state, at this time, their protest offers yet another example of the “class warfare” the right conducts against the poor.
