{"id":1635,"date":"2012-03-16T19:37:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T23:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2012-03-16T19:37:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T23:37:43","slug":"worthwhile-reads-i-am-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/03\/worthwhile-reads-i-am-a-woman.html","title":{"rendered":"Worthwhile Reads: I Am a Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>There was an interesting article on Huffington Post today called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/soraya-chemaly\/womens-reproductive-rights_b_1345214.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">10 Reasons the Rest of the World Thinks the U.S. is Nuts<\/a>.\u201d The author focuses on recent rollbacks or women\u2019s rights, and I thought this part was particularly well put:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I am a woman and I have these human rights<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>The right to life.<br>\nThe right to privacy.<br>\nThe right to freedom.<br>\nThe right to bodily integrity.<br>\nThe right to decide when and how I reproduce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rhetoric of the day has become caught up in \u201creligious liberty\u201d and \u201csaving babies.\u201d We need to reclaim this rhetoric and once again make this conversation about <em>women\u2019s rights as humans<\/em>. 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