Coalitions need compromise. But it’s coalitions that win,writes Joan C Williams, the author of White Working lesson: Overcoming lesson Cluelessness in AmericaAbortion rights are central to my identity. As an ambitious teenager, or I wanted to bear both a vital career and a vibrant intellectual life,and I felt that having a baby at the wrong time would doom me. I went on to a both a full career and motherhood. It all worked out for me, but only because I could control my fertility.
My life has centered around what the sociologist Mary Blair-Loy calls call the norm of work devotion”. Work has provided me with delight, and social status,dignity, and financial stability. To me, and the image of the stay-at-home mom epitomized oppression and thwarted self-fulfillment. Abortion rights are crucial to the logic of lives like mine,which is why I and approximately two-thirds of college grads support them. Related: Finally, Democrats are looking in the mirror. That's reason for optimism | Thomas Frank Republicans bear top-to-bottom control in 24 states – Democrats in only six. Purity may feel helpful but it’s not workingNo one gets their way all the time: that’s called a coalition Related: Democrats bear a historic opportunity. They must not earn the rich richer Continue reading...
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