Can Native American Women Save Our Right to Abortion?

Yeah I know there are wingers who believe we have no "right" to abortion, but that is just personal opinion. Outside the laws of the USA--or any country for that matter--there are laws that go to higher principles and no, not the mythical principles of the Sky Fairy. There are laws that spring from the good sense and logic of a human mind. People know rationally that a multi-celled reproduction of oneself is *not* a holy mission from said Sky Fairy to populate the shit out of a stressed economy whether that economy is national or the much smaller one of a single family. Unfortunately, thanks to Republican fundamentalist pandering born of the only life they value: devotion to winning at any cost--particularly to the cost of people--we will have to put up with the fundamentalist BS of anti-abortion (which is *not* by the way, pro-life--it is pro-control of anyone with whom they do not agree)--until saner (liberal) minds prevail...

Pine Ridge Leader Faces Battle Over Abortion Ban: "Native American women are raped three times more often than women of all other races in the United States, according to 1999 U.S. Department of Justice data.

Abortion, Fire Thunder said, is part of the aboriginal right of tribal women throughout North America. Until the advent of missionaries and their boarding schools a century ago, the knowledge of terminating pregnancies, both physically and spiritually, was passed down through women's societies.

'You would talk to that spirit,' Fire Thunder said of the fetus. 'You would say, 'I can't take care of you right now. Please, go back.''"