"Under Attack by Aubrey Hirsch" - The Audacity.
https://audacity.substack.com/p/under-attack-by-aubrey-hirsch
"What sort of motherhood is this? My mother's focus seemed to be on preserving unborn children rather than on caring for her already born children, a position advocated in a right-wing magazine, The New American , which carries this ad in its September 1997 issue: 'ABORTION: AMERICA'S GREATEST CRIME. Human life is a precious gift from God. A country that legalizes the wholesale slaughter of its unborn children will surely one day have to answer to the Lord' (p. 28).
"Yet my mother did care for her children, to the best of her ability. Tragically, however, my mother did not have the opportunity to examine her belief in sacrificial motherhood or the actions that her belief enabled. Rather than saying no to the demands of her children or friends, my mother would give and give and give until resentment set in, at which time she withdrew in angry silence. Yet, as Jessica Benjamin argues in The Bonds of Love , a mother's right to establish boundaries is rarely put forward as a model of her children's mental health, let alone of her own."
~ B. Daly
"WILLA v9 - ‘Weeping for the Mother:’ A Feminist Daughter Calls for Change in the Public Schooling of Girls"| Virginia Tech Scholarly Communication University Libraries
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