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So three, maybe four states, are certain they can outlaw a medical procedure.
I'm curious to see how they plan to enforce it. Really. I'm old enough to remember the world before Roe v. Wade, and I have a mother who was a medical professional since 1942. They patched up the women who presented after the illegal abortions they obtained - if they were done improperly, of course - they had entire wards devoted to the problem.
You heard more about the victims than anyone who actually did the procedures, of course.
I grew up with the idea that if I didn't want to be faced with the issue of abortion, I needed to not get in the position of desiring one.
I was the girl who sat on the edge of the theater seat if a boy put his arm around me.
I never dated. I never attended a school dance, a prom or a party. Of any kind.
I learned to wear makeup in theater arts class - and it was stage makeup. Street makeup? No. To this day, I don't wear *anything* on a daily basis, not even lip gloss.
I lost my virginity at 24, married the fellow at 25 and had no other sex partners until my current husband.
When it came time to be certified by DCFS for adoption, they had concerns about us because they didn't think we were "intimate" correctly and sent us to therapy.
Careful doesn't begin to cut it.
And no, I've never thought anyone had to do what I did to be "moral." It was what I decided to do - a personal choice.
I also know that there is more than one reason to terminate a pregnancy - some of them entire valid for the safety of the woman, and the possibility of future children down the road.
So. You want to make it illegal.
Roll the clock back.
Okay.
Put back all the homes for wayward teens and unwed mothers. Put back the reasonable adoption statues that would allow placements. Make money available for public adoption agencies to house, feed and care for women who want to place their children, but don't want to deal with a private agency that has an agenda. They existed. They don't, anymore. Make it possible for women to complete pregnancies safely - make it illegal to evict, starve or refuse health care to a pregnant woman. Make it illegal to fire one.
C'mon. This is just the start, huh? Let's make the whole abortion industry die of starvation. C'mon.
What.
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You make it such a crime to have a working female gender. It makes you kind of want to have your tits removed and your zorch sewn shut. Paying me 25% less over a lifetime wasn't enough, huh?
I'm curious to see how they plan to enforce it. Really. I'm old enough to remember the world before Roe v. Wade, and I have a mother who was a medical professional since 1942. They patched up the women who presented after the illegal abortions they obtained - if they were done improperly, of course - they had entire wards devoted to the problem.
You heard more about the victims than anyone who actually did the procedures, of course.
I grew up with the idea that if I didn't want to be faced with the issue of abortion, I needed to not get in the position of desiring one.
I was the girl who sat on the edge of the theater seat if a boy put his arm around me.
I never dated. I never attended a school dance, a prom or a party. Of any kind.
I learned to wear makeup in theater arts class - and it was stage makeup. Street makeup? No. To this day, I don't wear *anything* on a daily basis, not even lip gloss.
I lost my virginity at 24, married the fellow at 25 and had no other sex partners until my current husband.
When it came time to be certified by DCFS for adoption, they had concerns about us because they didn't think we were "intimate" correctly and sent us to therapy.
Careful doesn't begin to cut it.
And no, I've never thought anyone had to do what I did to be "moral." It was what I decided to do - a personal choice.
I also know that there is more than one reason to terminate a pregnancy - some of them entire valid for the safety of the woman, and the possibility of future children down the road.
So. You want to make it illegal.
Roll the clock back.
Okay.
Put back all the homes for wayward teens and unwed mothers. Put back the reasonable adoption statues that would allow placements. Make money available for public adoption agencies to house, feed and care for women who want to place their children, but don't want to deal with a private agency that has an agenda. They existed. They don't, anymore. Make it possible for women to complete pregnancies safely - make it illegal to evict, starve or refuse health care to a pregnant woman. Make it illegal to fire one.
C'mon. This is just the start, huh? Let's make the whole abortion industry die of starvation. C'mon.
What.
..
You make it such a crime to have a working female gender. It makes you kind of want to have your tits removed and your zorch sewn shut. Paying me 25% less over a lifetime wasn't enough, huh?
Re: All kinds of sadness here...
Yanno. The ones "prettier than them, sluttier than them, stupider than them..." The list is endless.
Bad Things happen to Other People.
In this case, it's not just the men doing it to us.
We got a lot of women doing to themselves as well.
Think about it a moment. Who can actually get pregnant? 50% of the world? Not really. Women can only get pregnant reliably for about 20 years of a 70-100 year lifespan. And not all of those between say, 13 and 33 are fertile to begin with.
So there are a LOT more people who can't get pregnant, than those who can.
I'd like to discount the envy factor here, but I'm also afraid I can't.
Re: All kinds of sadness here...
That said, I still can't really understand it and it scares me because that line of thinking is so ignorant and so destructive. It frightens me such thinking is used in the creation of laws that govern the health of ALL women.
I guess it's just more evidence of the deep, true ignorance in this country, and the way people have been trained to cut off their empathy and find an enemy in almost everything.