The Supreme Court has decided that outlawing so-called partial birth abortions is a good thing. Justice Kennedy reasoned that banning the procedure was good for women, because it would protect them from a procedure they might not fully understand in advance and would probably come to regret. Thank god (and that would be the Catholic god of the five male justices who voted for this law) that we weak-minded and flaky women have big strong men to make the important decisions for us. Let's finally legislate a woman's place under the Constitution as being one with no ability or right to think for herself.
The POTUS declared victory: "The Supreme Court’s decision is an affirmation of the progress we have made over the past six years in protecting human dignity and upholding the sanctity of life. We will continue to work for the day when every child is welcomed in life and protected in law." Of course, he left out a lot. "...protecting human dignity and upholding the sanctity of life..." would be the life of a fetus, but not the life of a fully formed woman. And no doubt he forgot the word HEALTHY, he means every HEALTHY child. Well, no matter, if someone has an unhealthy child, that's god's will, right? But if it's born four months early, the doctors will be required to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars making heroic efforts to circumvent god's will that the child die. I don't get it. But that's ok, I'm one of those stupid women the Supreme conservatives are going to protect from myself now, and I no longer have to worry my little head about such things.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
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Just in case there are some people who might not understand the implications (*) of this procedure, let's outlaw it altogether.
ReplyDelete(*) ie, Eternal Damnation!
This is neither the first nor is it the last exercise in fundamentalist monomania on the part of this administration.
Sad to be mistaken for an All-American man in times like these.
I'm waiting for Ahnuld to call these five Supremes 'girly men' for their squeamishness.
ReplyDeleteI don't know anyone who thinks abortion is a good thing, including myself. But I am not prepared to make decisions, nevermind legislate them, for anyone else on this issue. Of course, fundies and thumpers don't share my pov.
I'll rant right along side you on this one, I want to look back and figure out how far we've come:
ReplyDeleteWomen took a stand to abolish slavery, then realized the injustices against themselves. Women fought for the right to vote, coeducation and equality in the work force. When women found their voices, equal rights rang out of their mouths with a refusal to accept anything less. My goodness not too long ago a woman, Mrs. Woolly I believe wrote on her studies of how woman are as smart as men! What a stir.
A woman's personal choice regarding her body is her's alone. Keep the lawmakers out of it. We have fought for laws to protect our rights and end up with a few that degrade our efforts.
What do women have to do to prove we know what we are doing? Have the words of Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree) perished from mens minds? "And ain't I a woman?"
The ARROGANCE! You MAY not fully understand the implications, so you are denied the option. My decision protects you from the possibility of your making a poor decision by revoking your ability to decice.
ReplyDeleteIf the bridge were not there, people would not jump off it. Take down the bridge.
Wahhhhhhhh..... Wahhhhhhhh....
ReplyDeletePlease... O Powerful One from Ovaltown.....
I'm in the land of way too many a bridge over shallow waters.