'Bout to Take a Bueller

But before I go...

We covered religion this week – why not abortion? Especially since South Dakota’s elected officials think the time has come to challenge Roe v Wade.

SIDE NOTE: Back in junior high, I used to rail against a woman’s right to choose like a good little Catholic girl. Becky said I didn't make a bit of sense. Of course I didn't. I was twelve. While in high school, a friend had unprotected sex and got pregnant. Suddenly, I saw things differently. Years later, as an escort and peer counselor at a local clinic, I talked to hundreds of women facing the most difficult decision of their lives. Today I remain committed to keeping abortion safe and legal.

There is much room for disagreement on this issue. Left-wing lunatics believe all abortions should be allowed, no matter the fetus' gestation, and any attempt to limit terminations is misogyny. Right-wing fanatics want religious beliefs like "an embryo is a child of God" legislated. They're in favor of banning contraception, termination pills, and all abortions. (I would argue those fanatics also include some men who hate women. Fact of life. Handle it.)

I could go on about my moderate point of view, but this article from William Saletan sums it up beautifully. Here is someone who did his homework and while those who rely strictly on church doctrine won’t bother to read it (Logic? What's that?), the rest of the country is probably more in tune with this way of thinking. Most Americans support legal and safe abortions during the first trimester and some restrictions thereafter. They also support access to birth control and abstinence programs at the same time. I know. I'm so in tune with my fellow peeps.

Excerpt: Maybe, if we spend the next 10 years helping women avoid second-trimester abortions, we won't have to spend the next 20 or 40 years defending them. Maybe the best way to end the assault on Roe is to make it irrelevant.

Please, wingnuts, continue praying, blocking clinics, and vilifying women in pain. Continue to hate on females, scream about bloody fetuses and lobby Congress to outlaw every reproductive aid known to man. Others, keep with irrational arguments that aborting a viable fetus is a protected Constitutional right. Rock on with your bad selves. You help and save no one. At all. Period.

In related news - this guy is fighting for men everywhere. What a trooper! He says he shouldn't have to support a child he never wanted in the first place. Wow. Bio Dad isn't looking so bad right about now.

If a man makes it clear he doesn't want a child, is the woman on her own? Or does a living child have rights, regardless of sperm-donor's intent? I'm asking.

Any so-called pro-lifer who doesn't respond to this story with a similar: "He should have thought about that before he ejaculated inside someone!" is just a walking contradiction. Yes, Bob, I'm talking to you.

Reminds me of what Barney Frank (big fan!) said a while back: "Pro-life conservatives believe life begins at conception and ends at birth."

Go 'head, talk amongst yourselves. I'm done rambling and off to get my veins zapped. These legs don't stay beeyooteeful on their own.