The United States is regressing quickly under the burden of its plutocratic elites. Public health and the rights of women are under onslaught by ignorant religious ideologues who espouse intensely anti-woman rhetoric that undermines the ideals of civilized society. You would think that idiocy on this scale would quickly be quashed and laughed out of the public sphere. Wrong – its becoming the common parlance…
“The nationwide assault on reproductive and abortion rights that effects everyone with sexual health needs (so, that’s everyone, pretty much!) and has come to be known as “The War on Women” may claim its first state as a victim soon. In Mississippi, the final abortion clinic left is fighting for its survival. Bloomberg reports:
Beginning July 1, all abortion-clinic physicians must have admitting privileges at a local hospital under a law passed by the Republican-led Legislature and signed by Republican Governor Phil Bryant in April. At the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state’s sole remaining clinic providing elective abortions, none of the three physicians who perform the procedure has been granted those privileges.
“Mississippi may become the first U.S. state without a dedicated abortion clinic if the Jackson facility fails to come into compliance. That would mark the most visible victory for the anti-abortion movement, which has fought to abolish the procedure in the face of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing a woman’s right to have one.”
The Republicans in Mississippi are busy legislating themselves back into the stone-age. I sincerely hope that Canada will not follow their foolish example.
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June 26, 2012 at 8:04 am
writerdood
The polarization of America’s underwear has long held a magnetic attraction to those who would like to impose their own values on everyone else. But while religious minded individuals of the typical persuasion frequently view the determination of Hell as a destination according to a fairly common litmus test, abortion as a sin isn’t their primary motivation for attempting to eliminate it as an option – rather it is their mental perception that it is murder that drives them to prevent it.
Those of us who do not see it as murder see the other side – the destiny of an unwanted child, the destiny of a mother too soon, the affect and the burden placed on society, the prevention of drug-addicted, diseased, and mentally handicapped children.
There is no middle ground. There cannot be middle ground. The majority of America supports the right to choose, but it ins’t a large majority. It’s small enough that one can easily see where the right to life crowd possesses pockets of intense strength. Those pockets overlap the bible belt and the red states like pins in a map. If they can’t change federal law, then they’ll find other ways. This is one of them. There will be others, and this battle will never end.
I do not hate them for trying to prevent murder. If I believed as they did, then I would join them. But even though I do not share their beliefs, I have little passion in the other direction. Were it put to a vote, I would always choose individual choice and individual freedom. But that is true of most issues. And so, perhaps, this should be an issue left to the states. Those who do not agree can move – and perhaps should.
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June 30, 2012 at 3:20 pm
The Arbourist
rather it is their mental perception that it is murder that drives them to prevent it.
Expecting sense from the religiously deluded always leaves one disappointed.
I do not hate them for trying to prevent murder. If I believed as they did, then I would join them.
I do because the anti-choice platform explicitly infringes on the bodily autonomy of women. Others do not get a say, in situations like pregnancy, as to what goes on in my body, ever.
And so, perhaps, this should be an issue left to the states. Those who do not agree can move – and perhaps should.
Not all people are gifted with the economic means of changing to states where their rights exist. Are you advocating for a system that, in some states, you are considered less of a autonomous person that others?
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July 2, 2012 at 7:46 am
writerdood
“Not all people are gifted with the economic means of changing to states where their rights exist. Are you advocating for a system that, in some states, you are considered less of a autonomous person that others?”
Not really, no. I’m simply looking at the perception on both sides. Sometimes I think that if the red states want to impose their own fascist ideas and legal restrictions on their own people, we should let them convert their little kingdoms into Hell simply so that people can clearly see what it is they’re trying to do. But that’s selfish, and you are correct, not everyone can migrate out of it. Letting it fester in the middle of this country would ultimately be a bad thing for society in general, and therefore the battle must continue. Still, I weary of it, and do wish they’d shut up and go away.
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July 2, 2012 at 11:01 am
The Arbourist
Thank you for the clarification. I was not trying for a “gotcha” but was unsure of how to construe your original comment. Dealing with Fail does become tiresome and it does wear you down. That I can understand; I go through a similar process myself while trying to explain the simple concept that women are people too.
Still, I weary of it, and do wish they’d shut up and go away.
Absolutely. :)
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