Political cartoon
collected on: 4/5/09
from: Google Images search- "Abortion Ad"
This is an ad which is related to women's studies because it is making an argument about reproductive rights. It is an anti-abortion ad which vilifies women. It is making women who have an abortion look like bad people. It being an advocate of the opinion that women should not be able to have an abortion which utterly and directly violates their reproductive rights. It is clearly related to the topic of reproductive rights and in turn to the movie "If These Walls Could Talk". Both it and the movie are related to reproductive issues. The ad relates because it advocates the opinion of pro-life. The movie relates because it defends the pro choice side. The movie says that if women don't control their reproductive rights they don't control themselves and that means they aren't free to live a happy healthy life. If they can't have an abortion they are subordinate to men who have total control of their reproductive rights and thus this ad is also related to the subordination of women to men in society. The ad is just an ignorant message made by ignorant people who have no compassion for women and have clearly never taken a women's studies course.
This Ad represents an ignorant perspective about abortion and in that sense it is a big obstacle in the fight for women's rights. But in another light, viewing the ad allows one to make an argument against it and prove the opinion the ad advocates utterly wrong so if the ad is publicly shot down then it could be part of a step forward for women's rights and i hope someone before me has publicly and thoroughly thrashed and refuted this ad.
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