South Dakota: WTF?
Feb. 23rd, 2006 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyAbortion seems to be the big thing on everyone's LJs today, and why am I not surprised? Yeah, we know that reproductive choice is under attack all over the place, especially in the US, but this is a particularly nasty one: it makes no exception for cases where the mother's health is in jeopardy. I don't know enough about how these things work in the US to determine whether this law will pass or not, but from the article it looks likely that it will and that it will have ripple effects in other parts of the country.
Yuck.
It ought to go without saying that the so-called pro-life movement is not about preserving the sanctity or quality of anyone's life. This is obvious because if they actually cared about the ZOMG baybeees!!one!!, there are a few things that they could promote that everyone would agree on, like pragmatic and extensive sex education in schools, better access to effective methods of birth control, anti-discrimination laws that would help pregnant women in the workplace, and more support for poor mothers.
There was a post at Pandagon I meant to link to awhile ago, since it really drove the point home. Here's a really tragic story: A woman wanted a baby and got pregnant. She miscarried, but for whatever reason didn't expel the fetus. Her obstetrician thought that a good punishment for her sexual indiscretion was that she should carry the dead and rotting fetus until it came out on its own, heath hazards be damned.
Folks, this is the future. I'm almost too angry for words. Almost.
Yuck.
It ought to go without saying that the so-called pro-life movement is not about preserving the sanctity or quality of anyone's life. This is obvious because if they actually cared about the ZOMG baybeees!!one!!, there are a few things that they could promote that everyone would agree on, like pragmatic and extensive sex education in schools, better access to effective methods of birth control, anti-discrimination laws that would help pregnant women in the workplace, and more support for poor mothers.
There was a post at Pandagon I meant to link to awhile ago, since it really drove the point home. Here's a really tragic story: A woman wanted a baby and got pregnant. She miscarried, but for whatever reason didn't expel the fetus. Her obstetrician thought that a good punishment for her sexual indiscretion was that she should carry the dead and rotting fetus until it came out on its own, heath hazards be damned.
Folks, this is the future. I'm almost too angry for words. Almost.
