Slippery Slope? We’re flying down it
Posted by: lux in Women, tags: abortion, rant, WomenSo the Senate passed an “Unborn Victims of Violence Act” today. This heinous piece of legislation defines an “unborn child” as any child in utero, which it says “means a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.” In other words, from the moment sperm meets egg.
This is some scary stuff for people who believe that a woman should have the right to control her own life and her own reproductive system. If it’s a crime for a 3rd party to harm a fetus, it’s a pretty small step to making it a crime for the mother herself to harm said fetus. And once that’s the case, then is it that big a step to having the government control what a woman can and can’t do, or eat, or drink? Whether she can get on an airplane, or even drive a car while pregnant?
Hell, let’s just send all women who become pregnant off to special pregnancy camps, where they can stay for 40 weeks and incubate, only doing exactly what the government thinks is good for them during that time. Never mind the woman’s rights. It’s all about the fetus.
Think it could never happen in America?
Just wait. If Bush is re-elected, I’ll lay good odds that Roe v Wade goes down during his 2nd term.
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That religious zealot needs to be elected out of office. This is why there is such a thing as separation of church and state. Doesn’t look like anyone has informed him.
I’m hoping we get the chance to not only get him out of office, but also to prevent anymore of this from happening (along with all federal protections he is taking away [like removing sexual orientation from the reasons you can't be fired list]).
A while ago I had to support a friend in her decision. Not only did I have to protect her from the protesters outside the clinic holding their little placards and espousing unintelligable and ascinine sayings (”A mother … her child” “A father supports his woman” - that one was particularly ironic), but I had to do it while being positive and non-biasing so that I would not influence her one way or another. I can’t pretend to know how she *felt*, never mind what she was thinking. What she did share of her feelings were things I wanted to tell her were unnessary; overbearing guilt, shame and fear. Our choices need to be made without social stigma, or we won’t make the right ones to begin with. Yes, we weren’t out to lunch, but ****, this is her body, her life, her future, and her security~! How dare anyone make someone ashamed of that. No one is lining up to tell people to stop making job choices, school choices, etc, and then shaming them when they do make that choice. I’ve never seen this as anything but a war against women that want to be in control of their lives, no matter how they feel or what they do(n’t do).
Following your slope chere, I would have also had to go to jail as an accomplice along with my friend, who probably would have been legally considered a “host.”
I’m rambling I know…but such faulty logic always makes me think…If the woman is a host, is the fetus a parasite? How is that logical!?! How did something so natural and sometimes profound turn so ugly?
He’s not a religious zealot, he’s a charlatan of one. I’m not sure which is worse.
As for the base issue — you have to give them credit for the disguise. Increasing the criminal penalty for harming an unborn child during an act of violence against a mother is a GOOD thing. Assault a pregnant woman, killing the child, and treat it like murder — most people would support that concept. And then you realize what they’re REALLY doing is attempting to put a legal protection on the fetus. Sneaky.
And let’s make a little prediction. Imagine it’s October. Imagine what the Republicans will be saying about every Democrat who voted No on this legislation.
Welcome to dirty politics. Again.