My feminist kid sister!

My younger sister just came home from a trip to Washington DC with her Confirmation class at temple. I’d been bothering her about it for weeks, mainly because I wanted to know what they were going to be lobbying for. Apparently they let the students choose when they got there, and my sister picked reproductive rights! The kids who were lobbying for repro rights heard speakers on abortion rights, comprehensive sex ed, and emergency contraception availability in hospitals before splitting off into smaller groups. (My sister picked comp. sex ed.)
And then, when I was explaining to my mother how no, you can’t actually just get an abortion in most states (citing waiting periods, consent laws, and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act), and she said “well, I’m pro-choice, but I don’t know about that partial-birth abortion…”…my sister and I teamed up to explain why the ban is a really bad thing (no health exception; anecdote that my sister heard from a speaker at the Hill about how if his wife hadn’t had an abortion to remove an anencephalic fetus, they wouldn’t have the three children they do today; anecdote from that I read on Feministe about a doctor who would rather have let a woman and her twin fetuses all die and keep their consciences clean than perform a selective reduction so that two of the three could live; why would anyone get an abortion that late unless they’d wanted the child and there was a problem?) And lo, she was convinced!
So this is a non-Thursday Thank You to my little sister, for being a cool kid. (Now I will proceed to flood her with feminist blog links.)