I feel that after reading all the readings and going over Hawkins’ ecofeminist account on abortion, I feel that I have to agree with her stance. She decided to use our resources and supplies as an example of why the stabilization of our population is necessary. Look at what’s happening in our healthcare system now. We have more people sick than we have resources to take care of them, as well as ourselves. I have many family members who all are still required to go to work, and yet they have to reuse supplies because there isn’t enough for everyone. Now just think of the hospital resources as the food we need to survive. If there are too many people populating the earth, the casualty may be worse than intended if our resource to human ratio isn’t corrected. Hawkin’s states that, “While efforts to diminish consumption and to restructure the global economics scheme can and should be advocated in light of this relation, so can a further slowing of our rate of population increase (Hawkin 692).” Even if we discover new ways of rationing our resources, that’s basically only answering half of the question. The number of resources we need will still be on a constant incline because the population is growing at an increased rate. One thing that we also forget about as well is the way in which our actions are affecting our environment. The excessive amount of harvesting for goods is another factor of our diminishing supplies. As a whole, we have been constantly taking more than we need, just look at our supplies of toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
STORY TIME
So, I was on Instagram on this page called Insider, they have a bunch of different topics like food, fashion, etc. So, I happened to be looking at the news version of this page and found a video of a grocery store manager. He was telling a story about a customer who was trying to make a profit off of the pandemic, but it later came to bite him in the ass. The customer bought thousands of hand sanitizers and toilet paper rolls and was trying to sell them on eBay. I’m not sure if this is the same guy or a different one but a man tried to sell his stuff on eBay when the pandemic just started, and eBay decided that they would not allow anyone to exploit their company in order to make a quick buck. So, the man came back to the grocery store and told them that he wanted to return everything because he wasn’t able to sell it on eBay. The manager decided to teach him a lesson and told him that he can’t return it and he shouldn’t have bought so much. Morale of the story, don’t be this guy, cause Karmas A B**ch.
Now let’s think about our planet, mother nature is the manager an we are the customer. We continuously over harvest our resources and eventually, we won’t be able to take it back when it inconveniences us. We have to try to think about the bigger picture behind the necessities of abortion, not just the surface.
Jessica Valenti discusses how abortion should be looked at in a broader light because it not just about women having the right or convenience to get one; it’s about women having a choice in the way that she wants to live her life. She brings up key underlying aspects which are intertwined with abortions, such as, having the choice on when to become a parent. Valenti argues that having a choice when it comes to parenthood can be beneficial to the way in which women participates in society (Valenti 4). Women had an easier time of achieving their goals when they had access to contraception, which led to an increase in the number of female doctors and lawyers. Having access to these types of contraception can prove to be beneficial to the development of our society.