Welcome to SheKos! SheKos is a diary series for all Kossacks to explore issues related to feminism, women's history, and equality. We seek to find solutions within and beyond the Democratic Party to improve the lives of women -- and men -- regardless of race, sexual orientation, or economic status. We believe that women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights.
Let's face it - debating abortion rights is tiring. I cry "pro-choice," someone else cries "right to life." I say "reproductive freedom," someone else says "personal responsibility." And if anyone mentions "financial access," you can bet four or five others will chime in with "pay for your own abortion."
I'm weary of this debate. And frankly, it's not really about abortion "rights," anyway. No one has a "right" to an abortion; a right is something that equally applies to every member of society, whereas abortions are only available to women who can become pregnant. That's why the term "abortion rights" has an unsatisfying sound. It's inaccurate. It's not what the conflict is really about.
