A particular context as universal struggle

Only with abortion rights, women & society can be free at all.

‘Free abortion on demand is not the ultimate goal... It is but the most basic necessity, without which the political fight cannot even begin,’ writes Beauvoir (Manifesto... 1971).

Beauvoir knew that only with abortion rights, women & society can be free at all.

Social breakthroughs occur when a universal dimension in a particular struggle is directly experienced as universal.

‘Why shouldn't women also vote? Why shouldn't conditions at the workplace also be of public political concern? And so on," writes Zizek in ‘Violence’.

A properly universal dimension like the women's rights fight for proper health care including abortion care is directly experienced as universal in those individuals who lack a proper place, who are coming from a particular place.

The particular is where universality comes into being.

People ‘coerced into breeding’ are not free, to use J. Dean's words.

To be pro-abortion rights ‘is one of the necessary foundations of the fight ahead,’ writes Anna Girling.

‘In the US, no one can force you to wear a mask, but states can force you to be pregnant for nine months,’ writes J. Dean to put the false pretense of freedom into perspective.

So the particular is directly experienced as universal: Why shouldn't women also vote etc:

A particular context becomes the site of universal struggle.

Only with abortion rights, women & society can be free at all.

Only without deportation threats against some, democracies function through equality.

Only without lawlessness in the police we can speak.