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A report from Judith Warner's "Domestic Disturbances" column, entitled "Mad Man,' Maddening Times"--on the recent passage of the health care bill, containing the toughest restrictions on women’s access to abortion since Roe v. Wade--made me think of our conversation yesterday. (You'll find a fuller report of some of the dimensions underlying the vote @ Trading Women's Rights for Political Power.) Would you describe this decision as an expression of "patriarchy," or "kyriarchy," or something else....? What does it have to do w/ our discussion of the vulnerability of men--and of all human beings? (Have you heard of the work of Feminists for Life, who argue that a feminist stance of protecting the weak extends to the weakest, the unborn....?)