Featherheads Unite!

Katha Pollitt’s most recent column takes a comprehensive look at what would happen if pro-choicers let Roe go. (A hot topic as of late.)
And of course the inevitable, horrible, negatives (many states outright banning abortion, poor women being affected most acutely, women dying from illegal abortions) far outweigh the potential positive (energizing the movement).
If Roe goes, whoever has political power will determine the most basic, intimate, life-changing and life-threatening decision women–and only women–confront. We will have a country in which the same legislature that can’t prevent some clod from burning a flag will be able to force a woman to bear a child under whatever circumstances it sees fit. It is hard to imagine how that woman would be a free or equal citizen of our constitutional republic.
Like many women, I’m tired of seeing the issues that affect us being considered expendable. The right to control our bodies and lives is not a fringe issue.
All that being said, I have to say there was one part of Pollitt’s column that concerned me. Katha, you know I love you–but what’s this all about?
Overturning Roe would definitely energize prochoicers and wake up the young featherheads who think their rights are safe because they have always had them.

Young featherheads? I understand the frustration people feel when a woman doesn’t understand the importance or recognize the urgency of reproductive rights. However, singling out younger women as the apathetic majority not only does a disservice to those of us who are working our asses off for choice, but also limits the movement. How many young women want to get involved in a cause that has already labeled them as naive and uncaring?