Lysistrata and the women of Greece make a vow to withhold sex from their husbands until the men agree to end the disastrous wars between Athens and Sparta.
The play Lysistrata connects to our Pro-Choice Abortion Law in many ways. First and foremost, the play is about women taking control of their bodies and what they do with them, just like the law we are proposing. Lysistrata proposes an idea to her fellow women that in order to “compel [their] husbands to make peace, [they] must refrain…from the male altogether.” Our law proposes that people who are pregnant should be allowed to make their own decisions about whether they want to keep the child or not, which is giving them power of their bodies, just like in the play. The proposed law will take the power away from men who are trying to control women’s bodies, just as in Lysistrata. In the play, the women take control of sex and war away from the men, and try to get a fair say in what they are also being affected by. Lysistrata tells the Magistrate that the women “propose to administer the treasury [them]selves,” and when he disagrees, she points out that the women “administer the budget of household expenses.” This is the same as in our law: the people who are pregnant should be the ones making the decisions about the pregnancy. Finally, we are making a law and putting it on an informational website to convince people to not only agree with us, but to pass the law we proposed. In that way, we are also similar to Lysistrata and the women in the play. They “refrain from the male altogether” in order to persuade the men to do what they want: end the war and come home.
The play Lysistrata connects to our Pro-Choice Abortion Law in many ways. First and foremost, the play is about women taking control of their bodies and what they do with them, just like the law we are proposing. Lysistrata proposes an idea to her fellow women that in order to “compel [their] husbands to make peace, [they] must refrain…from the male altogether.” Our law proposes that people who are pregnant should be allowed to make their own decisions about whether they want to keep the child or not, which is giving them power of their bodies, just like in the play. The proposed law will take the power away from men who are trying to control women’s bodies, just as in Lysistrata. In the play, the women take control of sex and war away from the men, and try to get a fair say in what they are also being affected by. Lysistrata tells the Magistrate that the women “propose to administer the treasury [them]selves,” and when he disagrees, she points out that the women “administer the budget of household expenses.” This is the same as in our law: the people who are pregnant should be the ones making the decisions about the pregnancy. Finally, we are making a law and putting it on an informational website to convince people to not only agree with us, but to pass the law we proposed. In that way, we are also similar to Lysistrata and the women in the play. They “refrain from the male altogether” in order to persuade the men to do what they want: end the war and come home.