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“Just noticing…”

I was flipping through a fashion magazine the other day and I just noticed a question posed by a well know clothing designer, Kenneth Cole.

“Should it be a woman’s right to choose if she’s the one carrying it?”

Okay…so it’s obvious we’re talking about a woman’s right to choose having or aborting her baby, since she is the one carrying it. What irked me is that that question, in my opinion, should not even be addressed…it shouldn’t be asked in the first place.

I feel that the question posed is telling us that there are people who don’t think that women have the right to choose, just because she is the one carrying it. Yes, I know people feel this way.  But my point is, they shouldn’t. No one should have the right to tell me what to do with my body.

If you want to address something to bring about conversation over women and their choices, that doesn’t lead the reader that he/she has control over someone else,  it should have been a question  like this:

“The woman is carrying it, what choice would you make?”

This leaves the decision “open”:  The woman has the right to choose “to have a baby” or to “choose to abort it”. The decision is left up to her – Whatever is best for that women – it is her body.

Why is is that when it comes to a woman’s rights over her body, there has to be a question. I know many “pro-lifers” do not agree with me, but to me the answer to the posed question is an obvious “Yes, of course!”, and shouldn’t be addressed in the first place. It is a choice that every woman should have the right to make herself.

I decided to go to the website connected to the ad: Wheredoyoustand.com just to see what it was all about.  I liked the website. It poses some other questions, some with relation to sex, wearing condoms: Do young people today believe that safe sex can be good sex?  Okay that is a good decent question. It’s open ended. It doesn’t take away anyone’s rights. It’s not asking, “Should it be a young person’s choice to practice safe sex?” Now that would question their freedom of choice to wear a condom or not. We all know that practicing safe sex requires wearing a condom, but we don’t demand by law that people do. No…men would never go for that.

So..why does Cole ask the question: “Should it be a woman’s right to choose if she’s the one carrying it?” He shouldn’t be asking it.

As much as I like Kenneth Cole, and the topics that he supports, the questions that he poses,  on his Wheredoyoustand.com website, the question that he posed and posted in a popular fashion magazine, tells me that he does not promote a woman’s right to choose, otherwise he wouldn’t have asked it. The fact that he did pisses me off. It is this subliminal advertising that tells people it is still okay that we discuss whether a woman has the right to chose what happens to her body. It isn’t.

Cole: If you really want to be in support of women, ask the right questions.

“When are women going to give a final ‘no’ to men controlling and trying to control the rights over women’s bodies?” When will men stop trying to control women’s bodies and let women make their own choices?”

Now those are questions that needs to be asked.

Thoughts? – Blog me.

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Bagram: My pleasure. I love featuring courageous women such as Elmahdy. 

Fiyal: I hear you. Unfortunately the situation for women in Egypt is no different than many of the other muslim countries. The men want the women to support them when they give little to no support to the women in support of their needs and well-being. In Iran Madaline encouraged the women to only assist the men if they, the men, would fight for women’s rights. Why bother helping the men in their wars, only for the women to get nothing in return, and possibly end up with less rights and/or in a worse situation?

Henry: You’re welcome. A big thanks goes to Lois for enlightening us.  You sound like a reasonable republican, especially since you came to the conclusion that you will never be the 1% and that Romney will be supporting the 1% at your expense. I wish more republicans would wake up to that fact. My request is that you use your smarts and realize that should Romney be the republican pick, staying at home and not showing up at the polls will be an automatic vote for the republican candidate. If you are waking up to the republican rhetoric and lies, please don’t give them back the keys by default. Vote for the country. Vote for Obama. 

Ghayda: That statement is so true. I feel the same way. Sisters around the world are uniting. It is easier for us to communicate, create, and collaborate now more than ever. Now is our time.  

Falak: Thank you, but I wish that I could do more. There are so many who do. And all it takes is one to inspire us. Elmahdy seems to hold that position. Her photo has gone viral – I HOPE her courage does the same same.

Juan: I hear you as well. I found this article interesting. The natives have their work cut out for them. Don’t give up. Hafa Adai.

Luke: This is true but getting into a conversation/debate with Fox viewers is exhausting because they believe such rhetoric and lies. Perhaps now that this news is out, Fox viewers will question what they hear, do some research and tune into something else. I know…a tall order, but one can HOPE.

Dehab: The women who are saying this are frightened no doubt – and those words of complaint are the words of their men, not theirs. What Elmahdy did is unacceptable in the eyes of the men, and by doing it anyway, she put her life on the line. – that is not freedom. Women should never have to fear being killed because they want to express themselves, in any way. The way women are going to get their freedom is when more women such as Elmahdy, stop begging for scraps and just take it.

MK: Thanks for the heads up. I am not familiar with Ailes.

Tom: I do and many others do too. And I will continue to “lash out” and expose the truth. Be responsible and do your homework. See SC’s comment right below yours, and then to go the left hand column of my blog and click on FactCheck.

Peace & Love…

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