As reproductive service centers are closed down by conservative state legislatures, attempted self abortions are on the rise. For a literary depiction of a desperate woman there is Hetty Sorrel from George Eliot’s “Adam Bede.”
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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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Queasy about Bodies Used for Medicine
The sting videos by anti-abortion activists are designed to shock. But being shocked by the use of dead bodies for medical research is nothing new, as seen in the grave robbing scene in “Tom Sawyer.”
Mr. Collins and the Right’s War on Women
Rightwing attacks on reproductive rights have their antecedents in the moralistic judgments of Mr. Collins and Mary Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice.”
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If Oz Became Modern Day America
This Scott Bates poem revisits the Land of Oz and finds that modern America has broken out.
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GOP vs. Women = Pentheus vs. Bacchae
Euripides helps understand the right wing’s attack on women’s reproductive rights.
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