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  • Title: Roe v. Wade. Matters sexual.
    Author: Brickner B.
    Journal: Conscience; 1998; 18(4):18-9. PubMed ID: 12178915.
    Abstract:
    When the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe vs. Wade, the author of this commentary, a rabbi who had been working for years to legalize abortion, believed that the decision had decidedly legitimated a women's right to choose abortion. He was shocked by the fundamentalist fury that grew in the wake of the decision and by the ability of ultra-conservative forces to intimidate legislators. The schizophrenic attitude toward sex exhibited by Americans has them obsessed with sex and blatantly entertained by it while treating it with a secret prudishness and repressing or denying its importance. Thus, magazines are blatant sources of sexual advice, but sex education is limited in public schools. The "fundamental right" is fundamentally wrong in its attitude about women's reproductive rights, and a deadly serious struggle remains to ensure that women have choice and privacy in reproductive matters. The struggle for reproductive freedom is a struggle for freedom itself and for First Amendment rights.
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