Rights, the foundation of our society. Our rights define our freedom with our political views, our money, our actions, and our bodies. We are given these rights as an understanding that we have certain levels of freedom to act how we want, speak about what we want, and protest whatever we want. However, does this mean that it is valid to protest to take away another person rights? Today in America a social protest movement to advocate anti-abortion and anti-reproductive rights is becoming an ever present issue. Fueled by both women and men, this movement advocates the revoking of women’s rights over their bodies, and therefore is not a valid movement because it discriminates only one gender of society. The anti-abortion and anti-reproductive
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A similar protest movement involving the reprimanding of rights of a certain group is the anti-same sex marriage movement. This was a movement founded on similar principles, that it is morally wrong, and protested by a similar group, primarily a republican, middle and upper class, heterosexual, and white audience. By promoting to not allowing same sex marriage, it promoted the idea that as a group we believe a certain sexual oriented class in society should not have the same rights as everyone else. And in this same situation allowing same-sex marriage, and giving the people who are just as much a citizen in American society as anyone the exact rights that heterosexual couples receive, does not affect those heterosexual couples and is completely valid. It simply allows those who are as deserving as every other American their rights, just like women deserve their rights over their …show more content…
Today, “forty-two percent of women having abortions live under the poverty line, and another 27 percent have incomes within two hundred percent of the poverty line” (Marcotte). Women who are in lower socioeconomic standing typically do not have the means to care for a child, and if they unwillingly become pregnant they may not have the ability to give the child the necessities that they need in life. By taking away their opportunity to abort the child, it takes away the chance for not only the child to have a successful future, it takes away the mothers chance as well. As well as that “black women comprise only thirteen percent of the population in America, however [they] account for thirty-seven percent of all abortions” (Abortions in America). This means that taking away the option for a woman of color to choose to have an abortion, puts these women at an even higher disadvantage in life, from the oppression they already receive. As stated in Larry Kramer’s speech, We are Not Crumbs, We Must Not Accept Crumbs, “we are getting further and further away from progress and equality with each passing year” (37). While this statement is representing the inequality towards gay people, it represents the inequality towards women from all socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds as well. Unless we have a society where women and men are
A similar protest movement involving the reprimanding of rights of a certain group is the anti-same sex marriage movement. This was a movement founded on similar principles, that it is morally wrong, and protested by a similar group, primarily a republican, middle and upper class, heterosexual, and white audience. By promoting to not allowing same sex marriage, it promoted the idea that as a group we believe a certain sexual oriented class in society should not have the same rights as everyone else. And in this same situation allowing same-sex marriage, and giving the people who are just as much a citizen in American society as anyone the exact rights that heterosexual couples receive, does not affect those heterosexual couples and is completely valid. It simply allows those who are as deserving as every other American their rights, just like women deserve their rights over their …show more content…
Today, “forty-two percent of women having abortions live under the poverty line, and another 27 percent have incomes within two hundred percent of the poverty line” (Marcotte). Women who are in lower socioeconomic standing typically do not have the means to care for a child, and if they unwillingly become pregnant they may not have the ability to give the child the necessities that they need in life. By taking away their opportunity to abort the child, it takes away the chance for not only the child to have a successful future, it takes away the mothers chance as well. As well as that “black women comprise only thirteen percent of the population in America, however [they] account for thirty-seven percent of all abortions” (Abortions in America). This means that taking away the option for a woman of color to choose to have an abortion, puts these women at an even higher disadvantage in life, from the oppression they already receive. As stated in Larry Kramer’s speech, We are Not Crumbs, We Must Not Accept Crumbs, “we are getting further and further away from progress and equality with each passing year” (37). While this statement is representing the inequality towards gay people, it represents the inequality towards women from all socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds as well. Unless we have a society where women and men are