Pinoy Pie

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /02 April) — Abortion debates under neoliberalism deprive women of moral agency by isolating their choices from structural conditions, while simultaneously absolving corporations of moral responsibility for environmental toxics that cause involuntary abortions. This moral asymmetry reflects neoliberalism’s broader logic: individualizing responsibility while depoliticizing systemic harm. When abortion enters public debate, women are cast as moral actors whose choices must be scrutinized, defended, or condemned. Yet the countless involuntary abortions caused by toxic chemicals released into the environment by corporations rarely enter the moral conversation at all. Miscarriages induced by pollutants are treated as unfortunate accidents, technical failures of regulation, or medical events stripped of ethical weight. This silence is not accidental—it reflects the logic of neoliberalism, which individualizes responsibility while depoliticizing systemic harm. Under th...