Since everyone else on the internet is talking about it...

[vixenesque93]

I understand that some people don't like abortion, I understand why they don't. No one likes it. No one goes skipping to the clinic saying "whee! I'm aborting my fetus today!". And even if they do...I don't give a fuck. Have an abortion. Have several. It's none of my business or the government's.

And even though it doesn't affect me personally, I'm still pro-choice. And while I don't understand later-term abortion when it's not a life-or-death issue, I can't bring myself to openly be against it. It's between the woman, her doctor, and her conscience.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18cnd-scotus.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The justices ruled, 5 to 4, that a law passed by Congress in 2003 and signed by President Bush does not violate the Constitution by imposing an undue burden on a woman’s right to end a pregnancy. The majority said its ruling reflects the government’s “legitimate, substantial interest in preserving and promoting fetal life.”

Um...it may have been awhile since I took American History, but I thought upholding the rights of the (already-born) people was supposed to take precedence. Like, say, the right of the mother to live. Just a hunch.

President Bush called the ruling “an affirmation of the progress we have made over the past six years in protecting human dignity and upholding the sanctity of life.”


I damn near snorted my coffee out at this one. Protecting human dignity? Good one, Bushie.

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[quetz.livejournal.com]

Because Dubya cares so much about human dignity. As long as it's the dignity of a soon-to-be American citizen with an age of less than zero. Once they're born, they're expected to be responsible, just like he was.

[clayshaper.livejournal.com]

I'm still just amazed at the masses of people who scream about how every baby has the right to be born... and then spend the rest of the day sneering at "welfare moms" or "crackwhores with kids" or just IGNORE the millions of kids who are in foster care or institutions, who NEED HOMES... you never see those rabid pro-life people with a household full of handicapped or emotionally damaged children born when a woman had no choice, (sometimes money, sometimes she felt she couldn't make the choice, or even didn't WANT to!)... they're too busy thinking of cutsie little fetuses, with perfect halos... once they're born? screw 'em.

[vixenesque93.livejournal.com]

Well, the primary goal of Feminists for Life is to create a society that is more welcoming and supportive of young single mothers (apparently college women are at greatest risk of abortion because university campuses aren't geared towards parents). The idea is that abortion is this great evil created by men to avoid their responsibilities, and that "women deserve better than abortion".

They might have a point, and they are right in that a lot of the earliest feminists were against abortion (but come on people, context!. Abortion used to be riskier than it is now).

But they just don't understand that some women don't want to be mothers, ever. It's the assumption that women are too silly to know what they want that bothers the living shit outta me.

[bigby2k.livejournal.com]

Riiggghhtttt!

This from a man that slaughtered over 130 people when he was governor of Texas!