Pro life? More like anti choice!
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:
Portland independent media center
I am so proud to read my daughter’s thoughts. She is right on the money - a lot of Pro-lifers are not for quality of life; they are for keeping women in bondage and forcing their religious beliefs on others.
Keep up the good writing - Rant On Daughter!
I agree completely. For instance the Pro-life group always suggests “Give your unwanted child to a family that can’t have one” yet these same people usually choose to adopt from a foreign country rather than taking in the children living in foster care and orphanages. I’d say the more “christian” thing to do would be to provide a home to the children who most direly need a good home, but then the “christians” that advertise their “god following nobility” tend to be a bit on the hypocritical side. Jesus would slap them stupid if he actually stood in front of them.
Oh well, hypocrisy aside Christians did make good lion fodder once upon a time
I’ll bring marshmallows.
Hopefully the next figurehead I mean President will actually lead us out of the dark age of Christian science we’re in and back into an age of enlightenment.
I’m sure that the way things are now that at least Torquemada is looking
downup upon us all with glee in his malevolent eye as he guesses which of us will l get thrown in the fire firsti agree that the choice needs to be left there for the women and i really dont think that anyone especially a man should control that kind of thing its b.s.