Abortion and the full humanity of women: nearly there

Jo Wainer

doi:10.1071/SH07063

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Abortion and the full humanity of women: nearly there

Jo Wainer

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Gender and Medicine Research Unit, Monash University Faculty of Medicine,
Nursing and Health Sciences, Melbourne, Vic. 3168, Australia.
Email: jo.wainer@med.monash.edu.au

Sexual Health 4(4) 219-221 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH07063
Submitted: 13 August 2007 Accepted: 11 September 2007 Published: 28 September 2007

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^* ^*“This understanding of women is that it essentialises them: women have fundamentally different natures because of their sex, and the biological fact of that sex is more important than their personhood. Time and again, that complementarity was assigned a value such that the difference women embody physically and substantively (compared to men, whose maleness is the standard for comparison in all realms) is not merely different; it is a nature subordinate, “less than,” deficient.” From Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s preparation for the Papacy: How “The Vatican’s ‘Enforcer’ ran the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1979–2005.” Catholics for a Free Choice, www.catholicsforchoice.org; accessed 5 September 2007.