Recently in Week 11 blog Category  Government Hypocrisy    Week
11: Reproductive Liberty  The contradictory state attitudes
exist because the notion of liberty can be construed in
different ways. Roberts emphasizes that the idea of liberty as
understood by government as a negative rights rather than social
justice (295). By adhering to negative liberty, "the government
need not be concerned with social practices that create such
vague injuries as the devaluation of Black mothers" according to
Roberts (295). She then argues that the existing systems of
power privileges more affluent classes of society. For instance,
government can justify placing conditions on welfare regarding
birth control because it still allows welfare mothers to make a
choice; they don't have to take welfare. This still takes a
negative liberty stance, of not hindering an individual's
freedom. This ignoring of social justice in the name of negative
liberty gives the impression that government is leaving women
alone because it gives them a