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Carol Stabile / Meredith W. Michaels Blog: The Erasure of the Feminine Identity

It’s difficult to imagine a time long before we had high-resolution photos of the inside of the human body, detailed layouts of neurotransmitters shooting chemicals and creating feelings, and even the development of a fetus, where our only ability to study the body was to cut one open or use our imagination. Growing up in the twenty-first century, it feels as though we’ve always known of the intricacies of the body, how every muscle and cell work together to produce action, thought, and feeling. However, examining these articles opens the door to the idea that all we think we know has been dictated by studies and research centers around the globe, and our concept of the body and daily regimes have been vastly impacted as well. Similar to the first moon landing and the first images of space, our concept of unknown territory is entirely dictated what we are shown to believe.

With these unknowns comes the seeming duty of society to place upon them barriers, limitations, and requirements, the majority of which favor the unborn and uncreated as opposed the living breathing individual mother. These studies often have the additional detrimental impact of removing the individualism from a mother entirely, simplifying her to a mere carrier for the fetus, a symbiotic host raising an organism.

In Meredith Michaels’ “Fetal Galaxies: Some Questions About What We See” the author does well to outline the battle between maternal and fetal rights, and the perspectives of both sides. Where the pro-life organizations took the moral, religious, and abstract grounding, the pro-choice movement took stance in the ownership of the body and individual. Micheals makes an interesting point in comparing the entire argument to Descartes views of reality, saying “...some things were more real than other things; reality admits of degrees...In the context of contentions over abortion, the question is: who is more real, the women or the fetuses?”  The entire argument becomes a push for women away from the patriarchal implications of maternity, and towards individualism with a choice over the actions of their bodies. When viewing the images of protestors on the sides of roads or in front of planned parenthoods, it seems an almost paradox with how the pro-life argument is presenting itself.

It’s as if these groups are unable to decide whether to pursue the moral high ground of saving the life of an unborn child, the moral and righteous pathway, or to dispel shame and disgust on the mothers for the murder of unborn fetus. It’s boggling that these protests are supporting the same cause, and each feels that they are completely in the right. Like the changing antics of protestors, so to do the policies surrounding abortion rights change as the fetus develops. As Carol Stabile writes: “The body has become a battleground for women. It is the erasure of the female as an individual but rather as an organism.” Until we can recognize women the same as we do our men as individuals with the ability to choose what is right and wrong for their bodies, the battle will continue with no real ground being made.

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