I know I have written a lot about abortion lately, but it seems to be a big issue in the American election, so it is hard to avoid thinking about it. Just so there is no misunderstanding I have no conception of how anyone, especially men, but anyone, thinks they have the right to tell another person (in this case women in general) what to do with their bodies. I can conceive of people having differing beliefs about many things and good on 'em, if we all thought the same it would be very boring, but more importantly, we need to have these discussions so that we can consider positions, arguments, religious dogma, philosophy, science and all of our own pre and mis conceptions so that after we have thought about all of these matters, we have some idea of what the right thing to do is in any situation. "Do the right thing" (Spike Lee) has been the one and only important lesson I have tried to give to my children and they are, all six of them, people who do try to do that.
This post was inspired directly by the brilliant Rachel Maddow on her cable TV program this week.
So let me get this straight. The so called pro-lifers are mostly alright with abortion in certain extreme cases. At least that is what I understand them to be saying. The foetus is a person from the moment of conception, but it is alright to "murder" (that is by necessity their characterization of the act) these persons if the mother was raped, it was incest, or the mother might be in danger of losing her life. Conclusion: anti-abortionists of this type are pro-murder.
This is nothing new and many people have pointed out the inconsistency in the pro-life argument. But as I have said before, this position requires conservatives to advocate controlling other peoples' lives and decisions, which is also a very inconsistent position, as they generally are supposedly opposed to government involvement in your life. As in opposing universal health care on the grounds that it forces us to use certain providers of care, or as in the case of Obama-care, to buy insurance. They rave about the death of freedom, blah, blah, blah.
But not many people have given much thought or consideration to the Soviet style system that will be needed to monitor and decide who will be entitled to an abortion. We will have to have fucking commisars running around saying yes or no based on very little information or evidence. This is because convictions for rape or incest will never happen until after the babies are already born and even though the pro-lifers are admitted murderers, I doubt if they will agree to offing live babies in their cribs.
And in the case of the mother's life, again they cannot wait until she is dead to agree to kill the "baby."
It is a ridiculous position to hold in the first place, but to actually consider legislating this kind of thing is only something the Canadian and American Taliban could come up with. They are terrorists who should be feared. Their religions give them carte blanche to advocate anything including genocide, murder, and totalitarianism. Be afraid. If you are, you will do everything possible to exclude them from positions of power. Stephen Harper is the Canadian prime minister. Be very afraid.
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