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One of my greatest fears, potentially possibly ready to spring to life as law:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/mississippi-personhood-birth-control-abortion
I don't understand this. There is no sensible logic here. Someone please explain why the fuck this would be a good idea. Without using the words "god" or "religion" or "morality" or the phrase "it's a life". And if nobody can explain it without one or more of those words, do they understand how damaging and dangerous it could get? Look, I understand personal moral views and shit. But this? NO. Just... omigods NO. I can't even. I can't. I don't care if you are "pro-life" or "anti-choice" or whatever the hell the kids are calling it these days. Go ahead and say that abortion is murder. Whatever. You do NOT have the right to tell a person how to use their own body. You do NOT put a potential possible existence on a higher pedestal than the actual real existence of a person, especially when that person has to go through nine or more months of grueling, painful, agonizing, damaging physical and mental changes especially when they don't fucking want it. I am so fucking sick of the phrase "Well, if you don't want the baby, just give it up for adoption." People who use that phrase seem to be unaware of how intense those nine months are. I'm tokophobic and the mere concept of being pregnant makes me shake and spasm. Will I want a child in the future at some point? Maybe. I don't know. I don't want one now. But I sure as hell don't want a pregnancy. Ever. I have made up my mind about that. The fact that Mississippi politicians are willing to vote to make sure that fertile women might be seen as less important than a fertilized egg makes me feel very ill. No uterus should be "property" of a government.
You know what, I am emotional and ranting, so I'll shut up.
I can't right now. No. I am hoping desperately that this does not pass in November.
My soapbox has broken, so I will leave now. If you want to comment and defend this bill, go ahead. But seriously, if you use any sort of moral, ethical, or religious reasoning to tell me why a fucking fertilized egg should be called a person, I will merely smile like a deranged Cheshire Cat.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/mississippi-personhood-birth-control-abortion
I don't understand this. There is no sensible logic here. Someone please explain why the fuck this would be a good idea. Without using the words "god" or "religion" or "morality" or the phrase "it's a life". And if nobody can explain it without one or more of those words, do they understand how damaging and dangerous it could get? Look, I understand personal moral views and shit. But this? NO. Just... omigods NO. I can't even. I can't. I don't care if you are "pro-life" or "anti-choice" or whatever the hell the kids are calling it these days. Go ahead and say that abortion is murder. Whatever. You do NOT have the right to tell a person how to use their own body. You do NOT put a potential possible existence on a higher pedestal than the actual real existence of a person, especially when that person has to go through nine or more months of grueling, painful, agonizing, damaging physical and mental changes especially when they don't fucking want it. I am so fucking sick of the phrase "Well, if you don't want the baby, just give it up for adoption." People who use that phrase seem to be unaware of how intense those nine months are. I'm tokophobic and the mere concept of being pregnant makes me shake and spasm. Will I want a child in the future at some point? Maybe. I don't know. I don't want one now. But I sure as hell don't want a pregnancy. Ever. I have made up my mind about that. The fact that Mississippi politicians are willing to vote to make sure that fertile women might be seen as less important than a fertilized egg makes me feel very ill. No uterus should be "property" of a government.
You know what, I am emotional and ranting, so I'll shut up.
I can't right now. No. I am hoping desperately that this does not pass in November.
My soapbox has broken, so I will leave now. If you want to comment and defend this bill, go ahead. But seriously, if you use any sort of moral, ethical, or religious reasoning to tell me why a fucking fertilized egg should be called a person, I will merely smile like a deranged Cheshire Cat.
