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Re: Doonesbury this week
Mar. 13th, 2012 09:08 amSo, GBT is taking on the sonogram/ultrasound legislation that's suddenly become popular in the more conservative states that want to ban abortion. And, of course, he's doing it to enormous flak and discontinuation from papers and all that jazz. So, SNAFU.
Anyway, I loved this "blowback" on his site:
TEN YEARS AGO
Ten years ago I got pregnant by my future ex-husband. He didn’t want children, and we argued for two days before I decided to examine the possibility of termination. I had to travel 150 miles out of state to get out from under a 24-hour waiting period, a decision I made after the receptionist at the local Planned Parenthood looked at me like I was dung when I told her I was there for an abortion consultation. In New York, I asked for and got an intravaginal ultrasound. I’d told the doctor of my great discomfort with what I was considering. We were able to see that what I was carrying was an embryo, that the neural tube had not yet closed, and that there would not be a beating heart for another five to seven days. The ultrasound gave me great peace of mind with respect to my decision not to continue the pregnancy. The proponents of mandatory ultrasound need to consider that it works both ways.
( Ranty rant rant rant )
Anti-abortion laws assume that women can't make their own moral choices, and you know what? That's insulting.
Not to mention, if abortion becomes illegal, this country needs to have a hard look at its values about the rearing of children. If every baby in utero is a miracle, then that supposes that every child is a miracle. If a child is a miracle, then why are there so damned many hungry ones in this country? Why don't we have simpler adoption laws? Why are we constantly cutting education spending? Why do we ask mothers to pay others to raise their kids instead of paying mothers (or fathers) to do so themselves? If children were really as important as these bill makers say, they would be fighting to make this a socialist country, damn it!
*breathes*
But really, what it comes down to is that a woman's body is her own. Period. Let her make the choice, whether it be for or against termination. She's the one who has to deal with it, after all, since society isn't going to.
Oh, and Shiv, here's some hope for you. There is a push against the insanity that's swirling around this country. There is. And not just from flaming liberals like me.
Anyway, I loved this "blowback" on his site:
TEN YEARS AGO
Ten years ago I got pregnant by my future ex-husband. He didn’t want children, and we argued for two days before I decided to examine the possibility of termination. I had to travel 150 miles out of state to get out from under a 24-hour waiting period, a decision I made after the receptionist at the local Planned Parenthood looked at me like I was dung when I told her I was there for an abortion consultation. In New York, I asked for and got an intravaginal ultrasound. I’d told the doctor of my great discomfort with what I was considering. We were able to see that what I was carrying was an embryo, that the neural tube had not yet closed, and that there would not be a beating heart for another five to seven days. The ultrasound gave me great peace of mind with respect to my decision not to continue the pregnancy. The proponents of mandatory ultrasound need to consider that it works both ways.
( Ranty rant rant rant )
Anti-abortion laws assume that women can't make their own moral choices, and you know what? That's insulting.
Not to mention, if abortion becomes illegal, this country needs to have a hard look at its values about the rearing of children. If every baby in utero is a miracle, then that supposes that every child is a miracle. If a child is a miracle, then why are there so damned many hungry ones in this country? Why don't we have simpler adoption laws? Why are we constantly cutting education spending? Why do we ask mothers to pay others to raise their kids instead of paying mothers (or fathers) to do so themselves? If children were really as important as these bill makers say, they would be fighting to make this a socialist country, damn it!
*breathes*
But really, what it comes down to is that a woman's body is her own. Period. Let her make the choice, whether it be for or against termination. She's the one who has to deal with it, after all, since society isn't going to.
Oh, and Shiv, here's some hope for you. There is a push against the insanity that's swirling around this country. There is. And not just from flaming liberals like me.
