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Women, your country has betrayed you
Thursday, April 19, 2007 @ 9:51 AM
I am disgusted. I am outraged. I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. How did this happen? How did we allow this?
The Supreme Court decided that the life of a woman is not worth as much as the potential life of a pregnancy she carries into the second trimester.
ATTENTION WOMEN: You are not citizens. You are baby machines.
Hypothetical. Let's say you got pregnant on purpose because you wanted to have a child. You're happy and you start buying baby clothes. Then in your second trimester, something goes wrong. Your doctor tells you that your health, maybe even your life is in danger from your pregnancy. You are heartbroken. But instead of you and your doctor getting to decide if you should terminate your pregnancy, a bunch of right-wing motherfucking 50's-throwbacks who should have been castrated instead of elected made a law that says you don't get to decide. Your doctor doesn't get to help you decide. They've decided for you. Two cronies appointed to the bench by the greatest enemy to women and choice that the White House has probably ever seen tipped the judicial scale and upheld that law. They've decided for you. They've decided that it would be better for a child to grow up without a mother than for a woman to terminate her second-trimester pregnancy. Congratulations, and welcome to hell.
There have always been limits on abortion, but exceptions have to be made for the safety of the mother. If the mother dies before the fetus is viable, then by the logic of the pro-life movement, aren't two lives lost? Who wins then? Seriously, you anti-woman, anti-sex, anti-choice fucking assholes, I am asking you. Who wins?
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