Tag Archives: Abortion

Why Roe v. Wade? Read “Cider House”

By Robin Bates | Published: January 23, 2013

John Irving shows the horrors that can happen when abortion is not available.

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Threatened by Female Empowerment

By Robin Bates | Published: October 15, 2012

Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale” addresses issues raised by the Taliban shooting of a Pakistani school girl and also speaks to our abortion fights.

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John Irving’s Defense of Abortion

By Robin Bates | Published: October 3, 2012

“Cider House Rules” calls out those anti-abortion proponents who refuse to face up to the lengths to which some desperate women are willing to go.

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How Right Wing Would Respond to Tess

By Robin Bates | Published: September 17, 2012

Tess of the D’Urbervilles puts a human face on the dilemmas of rape victims. Romney/Ryan, take note.

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Ryan, Abortion, and Hardy’s Angel Clare

By Robin Bates | Published: August 15, 2012

Paul Ryan may resemble Angel Claire in Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” but there’s a vicar who shows us a better way of dealing with a “fallen” woman.

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Purity Tests Kill the Patient

By Robin Bates | Published: April 7, 2010

This is following up on an idea I inferred yesterday, that our delight in white cherry tree blossoms indicates a deep longing for innocence.  I suggested that we have more of a problem than do the Japanese (or at least certain Japanese connoisseurs) over the fact that this innocence will fade.  Wanting to grab on to innocence […]

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