Have Democrat’s suffered from a lack of imagination? Literature can help fix that. (For instance, “Handmaid’s Tale,” “1984,” and “Ozymandias.”)
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Tag Archives: anti-abortion movement
Lit, a Critical Defense against Fascism
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Dr. Frankenstein, Birth Enforcer
Shelley’s “Frankenstein” understands issues that have arisen around the abortion debate.
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Clifton, Abortion, & Respecting Women
Shock strategies by anti-abortionists may work on Congress but are less likely to work on women. As the body poems of Lucille Clifton demonstrate, women already know much more about their bodies than Congressmen do.
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