The Antisocial Socialist

So by now you all know about Mississippi and Kentucky trying to ban abortion.

As the USians have taught us, life begins at conception...and ends at birth. It seems that our new government now wants to start locking up 12-year-olds and automatically trying 14-year-olds as adults.

Hey, I have an idea. Why not just arrest them the second they pop out? That'll send a good law-and-order message, and I'm sure they're guilty of something.

Abortion 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.

Dear Livejournal,



I am going into hibernation for the entire winter.

See you in March.

Love,

sabotabby

P.S. Can someone please feed my cat?

P.P.S. There are two memes that seem to be making the rounds today, so I thought I should combine them.

( chop chop )

You know what else I don't get? One of the lifeguards at the JCC had her hair dyed bright indigo. It looked fabulous, and I told her as much. But you'd think she must do a lot of swimming, and every time I dye my hair, the chlorine in the pool bleaches it to something ugly. So I wonder if she possibly dyed it today and just hasn't been swimming yet, or whether there is some secret way to not end up with shitty hair after swimming. Does anyone know?

On a more serious note, a 19-year-old Texan was sentenced to 40 years in prison for helping his 16-year-old girlfriend have an abortion. Did everyone else hear about this and just not say anything? WTF?