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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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I positioned myself to l<strong>is</strong>ten to the speakers. It was notlong before an attractive African American woman in her latetwenties addressed the crowd. She d<strong>is</strong>played a femin<strong>is</strong>t confidencetypical of her generation. Unlike the other speakers, she did notlapse into vulgarity. Her comments were direct and personal.Standing on a makeshift platform, she shared thecircumstance that surrounded her abortion. As I l<strong>is</strong>tened, I wassurpr<strong>is</strong>ed by what I heard. In the end her justification for abortionwas not that it <strong>is</strong> a private matter between a woman and her doctor.Abortion <strong>is</strong> a private matter between a woman and her goddess. “Iprayed to my goddess and my god, she explained.” 16 I learned thatday that for women influenced by femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality, abortion <strong>is</strong>not just a political right. It <strong>is</strong> a religious.Practicing witch and author, Starhawk, in the book The16Tamara, untitled (speech, Refuse and Res<strong>is</strong>t! Rally, Washington,D.C., January 22, 1998).94

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