Demotion of Women to Non-Persons Fails. For Now.
Posted: November 9, 2011 Filed under: abortion rights, birth control, Civil Rights, fundamentalist Christians, Human Rights, Reproductive Rights, Surreality, Women's Rights 15 CommentsGood for Mississippi for voting that garbage down.
But it’s a bit flabbergasting that a question of basic rights is being voted on at all. What’s next? A vote on keeping slaves?
Because, you know, the right to your own life is fairly basic. It’s why you can kill someone in self-defense.
Except, apparently, if you make the mistake of living while female. Think about ectopic pregnancy for a minute. It occurs when the fertilized egg starts to develop outside the womb. It has a very high fatality rate without treatment, higher than most forms of untreated plague, for instance. According to our Christian Taliban, if someone saves your life in that case, they’ve committed murder. In their minds, it’s like removing the feeding tube from a dependent patient.
Women are feeding tubes to them. And we, in all seriousness, go around voting on whether women are more than that or not.
Cry, the not-so-beloved country.
Crossposted to Acid Test
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Having experienced both an ectopic pregnancy and gone through IVF (post ectopic) I find these laws extremely repressive and on the road to the enslavement of women. I have never had an abortion, but do support the right of women to have that option (reproductive care) and to make that decision on what is best for them. I don’t think women are infantile, and am against the idea of ‘the family decision’, the idea that the family will make the decision, because in the end it is the women’s life and not the ‘family’s’ and often it is the women’s fertility that is also at stake.
Thanks quixote for doing this post as you are a man that is fully aware of living in a world that has women, women who are full human beings and who deserve life, liberty, justice and the right to make decisions with respect to their bodies.
BTW, my ectopic burst, bled out, as when I went in they (medical staff wouldn’t believe me, as I am rather stoic…in regards to pain) and as a consequence I lost my L-tube/ovary and required a c-section/extensive surgery to repair everything and save my life.
And the world is better for it. Terrible what you went through. Were you able to have any kids after that, or did you have kids before that horrible ordeal?
Hillary 2012
so sad.wv.hope you are alright now.
Minx had one too, WV. These “personhood” laws are beyond barbaric. It’s The Handmaid’s Tale come to life.
Wow WV, what a horrible experience, I know how painful it can be…and when I think that we could have been forced into with some ridiculous criminal charge…it just pisses me off.
Thank you all…
Rock, yes, I did via IVF in Australia were it was covered and I as a ‘foreigner’ paid less one gran. In the states one IVF treatment was out of reach and not covered. Funny, the GOP keeps telling us we can’t afford Universal Health Care but every other Western country does have it for their citizens.
I am a strong believer, that a women’s reproductive health is HERS and HERS alone…never mind this ‘paternalistic’ view via the ‘family decision’…we are not infantile we can think for ourselves. When your life is on the line, it is your life and yours alone. Yes, people can offer advise, support, but it is your decision.
Minxoff Minx,
In retrospect I think I could have been in shock, they kept telling me it was so painful I would be screaming, while I continued to bleed internally… I must say the one thing that still gives me nightmares is the treatment of Magnesium sulfate for Eclampsia after a successful IVF… It wouldn’t surprise me if we find that the CIA uses Magnesium sulfate for interrogations.
Oh…I had those Magnesium Sulfate IV treatments too…with both my kids, they used it to keep me from going into full labor. That is awful shit! It is like torture.
Quixote’s a man?
quixote’s icon thingy is another fighter of windmills. It is not a photograph. 😀
Nothing to do with your icon, quixote. WV said you were a man above, which is contrary to how I generally read you.
I agree Thursday’s Child, Quixote is a real man…real men aren’t afraid of women, or afraid of women having rights. Got that man thing down.
Another I can’t believe it:
Bryan Longworth of Personhood Florida saying you just can’t buy a good slave today………..and
Haley Barbour, saying it was a BLUNDER to let the voters of Mississippi decid the issue………
I can’t fugging believe it.
FAINTED…