\n“11. Was m\u00fcssen wir \u00fcber die Wechseljahre wissen, Sheila de Liz?”<\/a>
\nZwar habe ich dann doch ein deutlich anderes Frauenbild als die interviewte Gyn\u00e4kologin\/Bestsellerautorin<\/a>, und ihre nicht-medizinischen Verallgemeinerungen \u00fcber “die Frauen” stie\u00dfen mir wie alle solche unangenem auf (Gr\u00fc\u00dfe von einer Mittf\u00fcnfzigerin, die wei\u00dfe, kurze Haare saucool findet, siehe Jamie Lee Curtis). Doch ich bekam einige Informationen aus Jen Gunter’s Menopause Manifesto<\/i><\/a> aufgefrischt, werde meinen Termin bei einer weiteren Gyn\u00e4kologin n\u00e4chste Woche mit konkreteren Fragen und Bitten antreten. Und ich lernte, dass der Facharzt Gyn\u00e4kologie keineswegs tieferes Wissen \u00fcber Hormone umfasst, dass Gyn\u00e4kolog*innen wohl nur f\u00fcr die Fortpflanzungsfunktion des weiblichen K\u00f6rpers ausgebildet werden.<\/p>\n
W\u00e4hrend meiner Sporteinheit ging drau\u00dfen ein weiteres Gewitter mit Hagel und heftigem Regen herunter, ich sah die Spuren beim Verlassen der Sporthalle, musste tiefen Pf\u00fctzen ausweichen. In fortgesetztem Regen ging ich nach Hause und wurde mittelnass.<\/p>\n
Herr Kaltmamsell servierte zum Abendessen Kartoffel-K\u00e4se-Brei Aligot<\/a> mit gebratenen Paprikaschoten und gr\u00fcnem Spargel aus der Pfanne – ganz wunderbar. Nachtisch Osterschokolade, im Fernsehen lie\u00dfen wir Twelve Monkeys<\/i> laufen, Brad Pitt und Bruce Willis in H\u00f6chstform. Aber an einem Arbeitstagabend habe ich nicht die Ruhe f\u00fcr einen ganzen Spielfilm, ich ging gewohnt fr\u00fch ins Bett.<\/p>\n \u00a7<\/p>\n Laurie Penny ver\u00f6ffentlicht ein Kapitel aus ihrem Buch Sexual Revolution<\/i> zur kostenlosen Lekt\u00fcre, weil die dort gesammelten Fakten (f\u00fcr alle f\u00fchrt sie Quellen an, in den Ausschnitten unten habe ich die Fu\u00dfnoten entfernt) und Gedanken zur Abtreibungsdebatte erschreckend akutell und relevant geworden sind. Every year, in Great Britain, 10,000 people are treated for post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of giving birth, and tens of thousands more are injured in the process of delivery. One study found that several months after enduring labour, 29 per cent of women had fractures in their pubic bones and 41 per cent had tearing and severe damage to their pelvic floor muscles. For human beings, pregnancy and childbirth are dangerous, risky, exhausting, terrifying and painful. Even with modern medical advances, about one woman in 10,000 still dies in childbirth, and many more will be permanently and seriously injured. Women frequently emerge from pregnancy and childbirth with permanent nerve damage, lifelong pain or PTSD. In context, that\u2019s about the same risk an American soldier takes on when he or she signs up for a tour of duty in a foreign war. Pregnancy and childbirth are brutal. And forcing them on anyone against their will is barbaric.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (…)<\/p>\n As the debate about a woman\u2019s \u2018right to choose\u2019 to terminate pregnancy rages around the Global North, as sadistic restrictions on abortion access continue to be written into law by all-male committees around the world, the physical realities of pregnancy and birth are almost never discussed.<\/p>\n The public conversation around abortion still centres on the question of whether a fetus has human rights, whether a fetus can feel pain, whether a fetus is a person. The question of whether a foetus is a person is unanswerable by science. The question of whether a woman is a person, however, is not up for debate \u2013 and it is female personhood and female pain that ought to decide the issue. Sometimes, though, men get together in a room to decide otherwise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (…)<\/p>\n Criminalising abortion makes female sexual agency a crime. That is what it is designed to do. It is very much the point. Give the Tony Tinderholts of this world some credit for candor: they\u2019ve openly said that what they care about isn\u2019t protecting babies but punishing sluts who think they can just have sex without social consequences. Consequences that could well include dying alone and in pain after a botched home abortion, or feeling your flesh tear and your bones break as you shove out nine pounds of raw, screaming need, delivered at gunpoint in the shadow of the electric chair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (…)<\/p>\n Making abortion illegal doesn\u2019t stop it from happening. Conservatives know that full well. In nations where abortion access is restricted, they don\u2019t have fewer dead babies \u2013 but they have a lot more dead women. Around the world, 5 to 13 per cent of maternal mortality results from unsafe abortion. The point is to send a clear message that uppity hussies have been having their own way for far too long, and that there should be consequences. The point has never been that babies matter. The point is that women don\u2019t<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a7<\/p>\n Apropos: Hier eine rechtliche Einordnung des Entscheidungvorschlags des US Supreme Court zum Recht auf Abtreibung in den USA im Verfassungsblog. Autorin Sarah Katharina Stein ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut f\u00fcr \u00d6ffentliches Recht, Abt. 1: Europa- und V\u00f6lkerrecht an der Universit\u00e4t Freiburg.
\n“Do women have a Right to Life?”<\/a><\/p>\n
\n“Das Ende von Roe v. Wade”.<\/a><\/p>\n