MOTHERHOOD IS A RIGHT AND A CHOICE - NOT STATE & CHURCH POLITICS ---- Gathering
in favor of abortion & against the church sermon ---- This morning, MetropolitanDodonis, on a morning show on SKAI, talking about the nationwide sermon of thecoming Anti-abortion Sunday, has engaged in a dangerous cesspool of obscurantismabout almost all issues concerning women & female sexuality. In summary, hestated that no woman "sits down to be raped if she doesn't want to" and of courseshe cannot get pregnant from rape because to get pregnant "the participation ofthe woman is also needed". He pointed out that the prospect of an abortion is upfor discussion in the event that the child's life (not the woman's) is at risk,but always with the advice & consent of the church and he added thatcontraception should be prohibited except in some cases involving health reasons"and not to make love for love's sake." At the altar of television viewing andprojection, the channels invited - not by chance - the specific metropolitan toreopen the debate on the issue of abortions. The reactions from the regime do notmove us, as we know very well that they are not interested in life (see refugeesin Evros with the death of the child). The result is that in one way or anotherit opens up a reconciliation of opinions about something that should beself-evident. The fact that they invited him, while a few days ago it waspublished that the Holy Synod itself invites them to talk about abortions intheir sermons, is a typical example of the prevailing situation. The only reasonthey condemn his statements is because he deviated from what they approve of soas not to create much of a backlash. This, combined with the movements in the USAand Poland recently, create a tension and a visibility, as they know that theyalways find supporters.In October 2021, the Polish Government proceeded with an almost total ban onabortion, banning abortion even in case of severe malformation of the fetusarguing that it was against the constitution, something that had already beenattempted since 2016 and finally succeeded within the lockdown period and of thebans due to the spread of covid-19. Eventually almost all abortions were banned -with exceptions only in cases of rape, incest, or where the mother's health wasat risk. Immediately, a large number of male and female protesters took to thestreets and clashes with the police were inevitable. In fact, anarchist women inPoznan symbolically occupied an old hospital and called it an "abortion clinic".In response, the state proceeded to break up the gathering and make arrests, andfor many days afterwards, demonstrations & clashes with the police forces were adaily occurrence. Just a few months ago in the U.S. the Supreme Court overturnedthe landmark federal abortion law that established a constitutional right toabortion in 1973. Since it was overturned, about half of the states are expectedto outlaw or severely restrict abortion in some other individuals and companiesthat provide contraception can be prosecuted.In a time where the state-capitalist-patriarchal system attacks with all meansand in every field of social life, in a daily life where we count every daymurdered, abused, raped women, acquittals of rapists & child rapists, traffickingrings with cover-up and help the cops, innocent torturers & murderers. Thejudicial mechanisms of "justice", a class and patriarchal justice, that are thereto prosecute and imprison every fighter and fighter, that condemn thousands ofthe poor and marginalized to imprisonment in prison graves, are part of a systemthat promotes social cannibalism , patriarchal and in general authoritarianviolence, protecting the powerful and their crimes, terrorizing and throwing intothe fire of cannibalism all who dare to resist.The right to abortion is contested in the midst of a universal effort torestructure the state-capitalist system that struggles to maintain its power bypromoting conservatism and disciplining at all levels of social life with the aimof returning to the basic principles of the system: the nuclear family andnational homogeneity. The nuclear family as a structure adopted by this system,on the contrary and through the dissolution of collective and community life, isa useful tool for it, as for its very existence and also for its perpetuation itis constantly looking for new workers and at the same time it is fed by theshrinking of social bonds of solidarity. Abortion is the enemy of capitalism andmilitarism. The narrative about the "morality" of abortions as well as the accessitself mainly concerns women of the plebeian strata, for whom behind theglorification of women's role as mothers, their return to the private sphere andtheir transformation into reproductive machines, with the primary purpose ofcreating workers and soldiers to serve the needs of the state-capitalist system.The church only as a helper could function in this effort, and its medievalobscurantism again spreads like a threat and a curse over women and societystruggling for freedom.Patriarchy and the roles it imposes are an integral part of the hierarchicalorganization of society by the state and capital. In modern conditions it is alsopart of the social cannibalism that promotes the political and economic bosses toremain the same in the fireproof: a war of all against all, in which the mutualslaughter of the poor is promoted and at the same time fascist, nationalist,intolerant reserves of the system are built, targeting whoever is considered"weak" based on the imposed social and class hierarchy. If the discussion wasabout abortion and women's safety, then we should include sex education from anearly age, contraception, free access to care and health for all of us and ofcourse the cultivation of consciousness in the direction of conscious and healthymotherhood , which only appears as an option. The purpose of all these measuresis the conservatization of social life resulting in a return to the basicprinciples of the state capitalist system: the nuclear family and nationalhomogeneity. Thus, the moral warfare and disciplining of women is a structurewith purely political stakes, which not only degrades a woman's life on anindividual level, but uses women as harbingers of an extreme subjugation toconservative ideologies.We as anarchists and women activists consider the right to safe abortionsindisputable. We fight for a free and conscious motherhood, because we want tohave children if we wish, whenever we choose and under whatever conditions wedecide, refusing to surrender our bodies to the parliaments of any government orreligion. We organize and collectivize as women against all that oppresses us,aiming to spread the questioning of the limits placed on the role of women andthe ideas of those who oppose the patriarchy and the control of our bodies, sothat we can strike another blow in the world of power, defining our very lives.FREE & FREE ABORTIONS FOR ALLMEETING, THURSDAY 08/09, at 19:00 CHAMBERFree Women / Collective for social anarchism "Black & Red",member of the Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivitieshttp://apo.squathost.com/sigkentrosi-iper-ton-amvloseon-enantia-sto-ekklisiastiko-kirigma-eleftheres-ginekes-mavrokokkino/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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