Currently the Pro-Choice movement, under the doctrine of political correctness, has shifted it's banner to "Reproductive Rights" While pro-choice is broad, ambiguious, and selfishly individualistic "reproductive rights" has given the movement a banner in which to say in a more specific way that their is no choice on this topic...it's a "right" and we as a collection of individuals are entitled to it, End Of Story! While the movement has focused in on it's priniciples it has allowed individuals to become blended into a larger collective and individual responsibility and consequences dissappear into this collective. It's "we" not "me"! It's easier to live with the consequences and responsibility (or lack there of) in a collective type unit. I guess that is true with any movement that does not have accountability on an individual level. Part of this "Reproductive Rights" movement involves a group that you wouldn't normally see in the headlines because of it's marginalized nature. While this movement is not new it has gained legitimacy inside the "reporductive rights" movement. The movement is a collective of sex workers! While I am not apposed to helping sex workers in the name of Christ with the intent purpose of seeing a redemptive work in their life I just don't give any credence to the principles in this movement if that's not obvious by now. The alarming thing is many do! The following is a post by Audacia Ray's blog on RHRealityCheck.org. Audacia Ray is a professor of sexuality at Rutgers University, author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration, and a U.S. advocate for sex workers rights. Audacia's post is an account of her trip to see what the movement was like in India. Here is a quote and then a link to the post...it's a great read!
Today, one of the organization’s largest projects is a collective of 5,000 sex workers that manages a peer HIV prevention education and condom distribution program in Sangli. This collective also advocates to ensure equal access to health services and end violence and discrimination against sex workers. While many organizations train and bring in people from outside the community to help and support people in need (the social work model), SANGRAM operates under the principle that the only way to empower people is to provide them with the tools they need to claim their rights and facilitate change.
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