You can be a feminist and be uncomfortable with the notion of abortion. You can be a feminist and communicate that discomfort to third parties. You can be a feminist and choose never to have an abortion yourself. You can be a feminist and support greater rights and opportunities for young mothers everywhere so that fewer women will have to choose between pregnancy and their career. You can do all of these things and be a feminist. What you cannot do is stand in the way of any other woman’s moral and political right to reproductive self-determination.
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Tell that to Sarah Palin?
One of the places I applied to for a fall internship in Washington D.C. is an organization called EMILY’S List, which works to support pro-choice, democratic women for political candidacy. I got a call for an interview with them after I already accepted a position at the Kennedy Center. Then when Governor Palin’s vice-presidential nomination was announced, EMILY’S List was all over newspaper articles I read and I was like, DOPE.
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