Zoe’s Rants & Randomness

They are trying to take away our freedom.This country was founded on freedom, not God or religion of any kind. Our founding fathers were fleeing the precise kind of oppression and denial of choice that “anti choicers”, it would appear from their actions, are trying to push on our country today. The same freedom that allows them to protest at abortion clinics and scare women out of getting abortions and the birth-control that they have every right to have and in some cases should have (see “they should put birth control in the water”).These “anti choicers” are using the same freedom that they were given by our founding fathers to take away our freedom.

The “anti choicers” and their kind protest at our doctors offices and sometimes our places of worship, our “churches” if you will. How many pro choice rallies do you hear of in comparison to “anti choice” protests. When we do gather we do not stoop to their level and hold protests at their churches and doctors offices. We do not use scare tactics, lies and violence to try to prove our point. I guess we just assume because we have logic on our side that we will prevail. Logic and reason will not stop them all. The worst of these “anti choicers” have bombed our doctors offices on Christmas day and called it “A birthday present to baby Jesus”. They twist and contort the words of the bible in a feeble attempt “justify” their actions. Christians and other religions or faiths that follow the bible tend to be good peace loving people. Its the few bad apples that are making the whole group look bad.

Logic will fail in the face of ignorance. As we have all seen in the past to many years with the so called leader of our country. We have all seen it whether we want to admit it or not. In an article on the subject the New Yorker stated March 13, “The Bush Administration has been relentless in its opposition to any drug, vaccine, or initiative that could be interpreted as lessening the risks associated with premarital sex”. Does it bother anyone else that the “leader” of our country is allowing his own religious beliefs to cloud or rather blind his judgment, ignoring the truth of logic and science. Biology and religion do not mix. Faith in God will not protect you from a virus nor a bacteria. By using an abstinence (or faith) based sexual health system we are going straight back to the dark ages (which I might add is what we called it the last time the church ruled the world) where women were property and magic “cured” disease.

We the pro choicers need to be heard louder than the “anti choicers”. We have a challenge in front of us, yes but what is worth getting that comes easy. If the “anti choicers” succeed in taking away or freedom too choose what we want to with our bodies and outlaw abortions. I ask you: What is next, our freedom of speech or religion?

The “anti choicers” are succeeding in their quest to take away our freedom of choice. Despite recent national polls indicating that a majority of Americans do not want abortion to be outlawed, lawmakers in at least five states — Georgia, Indiana, Ohio, South Dakota and Tennessee — have offered bills that seek to ban all abortions, except when the woman’s life is in danger. On March 6, 2006 South Dakota’s Republican governor, Mike Rounds, signed into law a bill banning almost all abortions in the state. The bill makes it illegal for doctors to perform an abortion under any circumstance other than to save the life of a woman. Women in sparsely populated South Dakota currently obtain about 800 abortions a year. Under the new law women will be forced to take time off of school and work and spend money traveling out of state. These expenses and hardships are added to the price of abortion in the United States, putting the ability of women to control their own bodies and their own lives further out of reach for many poor women. National Lawyers Guild (NLG) President Michael Avery said, “The legislators and the governor of South Dakota have violated their oath of office to uphold the Constitution.

In closing I have no bones to pic with most people. Its the war mongers, the so called “right” Fundamentalist Christians. Those who are so blinded by hate and or their own beliefs that feel the need to force their own beliefs on others that I take issue with. I understand that there are true pro lifers. People who don’t believe in abortion and at the same time know that using lies, scare tactics and violence to get their point across is wrong and in some cases hypocritical. Although I do not agree with pro lifers either I wish them no ill will. If you do your thing and let me and my people do ours then you are good people. It is impossible to force someone to truly agree with you.

Peace,

Zoe

Relevant links for more information:

Stateline.org

Portland independent media center

I was awoken last sat. morning at aprox. 9-9:30 to (not my norm. "alarm" my roommates crazy rat terriers barking at nothing) a screaming child. I looked out my 2nd story window. I can see about 2 houses away from my bedroom window and I could see no children, screaming or not. Therefore that child could be heard in at least a 2 BLOCK radius! Did I mention that this went on for almost an hour! I would have assumed that the child was badly injured or something had their "parent" ( it was very clear to me, my fiance and our roomates that they did not know the meaning of the word) not screamed at them to come inside and be quiet about 10 min. in. This was their only effort to quiet their child. I am not approving of or by any means advocating physically disciplining your children; however parents can carry their screaming children inside, out of a movie theater,outside when in a store, ect.

It feels like the closer we (my fiance cris and I) get to being parents the more we can't stand the way most people "parent" (if it can even be called that). I have decided that this is the reason the our country, dare I say our world, is going to hell in a handbasket. I can't name more than a handful of my intelligent friends who are in relationships that want to breed. Our problem is that more stupid people (that should not even be thinking about breeding) than intelligent people are breeding.

I have decided to start convincing all of my intelligent friends to breed. I strongly advocate birthcontrol and adoption. There are many choices, so if you are not ready to have and parent children please, for the sake of our future use them!

I cant stand those "pro life" people when they protest at abortion clinics! I think they should change their name to anti-choice.How would those people like it if I organised a pro choice rally and went to their doctors offices? I wouldn't ever do such a thing and stoop to their level. Although I wonder if it might get the point across that thats exatly what they are doing.

I could say more about this particular subject but its a bit of a tangent so I will save it for another post on a later date.

I'll be ranting about things that piss me off or else just posting various tidbits of randomness as I see fit. If you disagree that's fine since that's the way our country works. Just don't try and outlaw me voicing my ideas