Interesting to see Chavez has the same fights we have. Its must be nice to have a government that is at least on the right side of this.
And I wouldn't wish Ralph Reed on anyone.
Thanks for posting on this, otherwise we would never hear about it from our great media here in the U.S.
I've been lurking a while after I got referred from Joe's blog. Interesting site.
Interesting thread on this at RNV (in spanish):
http://www.rnv.gov.ve/noticias/i...ST&f=26&
t=19451
Lisette, you hardly hear about it in Venezuela, at least from the opposition media.
And yeah, please don't send down Mr. Reed. We already have plenty of crazies.
I never thought I would actually say this but I must commend Iris "se la tienen que calar" Valera's effort to decriminalise abortion. Kudos for such proposed amendments. Furthermore I reckon it should be completely legalised.
Common Ground with Boyd? I never thought it possible. The wonders never cease.
Good to know you are not altoghether gone Boyd, that lends hope, where before there was none.
Yeah, Pulpo
But the cynic in me is inclined to believe that Boyd's suffort of abortion rights is linked to some rightwing, anglophile notion of eugenics, where the masses of poor are considered a blight on the earth and the earth's 'sucessful' (ie, white) races must lead the way in curbing the brown populations.
Ok, this is a very cynical reading. Boyd's support might be rooted in a progressive ideal with reguard to recognizing that women's voices and power must be actualized in policy decisions for the human race to survive in any semblance of a world worth living in.
I would hope that the case would be closer to the latter than the former.
But Alec's call for a Ven. Pinochet is chilling and disconcerting.
This is an issue were some of the opposition should and could join MVR's in the fight for a more progressive policy on abortion.
Let's hope some of them could put the hating on hold for a minute.
My 2 cent opinion - abortion is wrong. But don't mistake me for a religious fundamentalist as I have quite sophisticated philosophical reasons for this position. To expand on this issue would fill more pages than I care to write at this stage. Suffice to say that I consider both sides of the aisle, so to speak. In fact the motivation behind this law change is noble on the part of the honourable Iris (but I can only judge by face value). But in the socalled "moral balance" it weighs in on the light side.
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