Comments | bandgeek: People ... disgust me.

bandgeek

People ... disgust me.

Jan 07, 2005 09:53

Do you live in Virginia? Are you a human?

Read this.

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In other news, I have no other news. Nothing exciting going on here.

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clarice January 7 2005, 18:05:27 UTC

I keep thinking that the US can't get any worse. But, apparently, it can.

bandgeek January 8 2005, 01:36:01 UTC

Shh! You'll jinx it even more ...

revena January 7 2005, 18:44:23 UTC

Wow. That is just horrible. I read _The Handmaid's Tale_ for the first time right around the time when legislation was going through to prevent "partial birth" (stupid term) abortions. It totally freaked me out, because as much as the book is fiction, I could see how easy it would be in our country to reduce the rights of women to such an extent that all we could do is serve as breeding machines. This article is definitely gonna be feeding my paranoia for a while...

bandgeek January 8 2005, 01:39:27 UTC

Well, let's just hope that the affected 50% of the population won't take this one sitting down ...

thisficklemob January 7 2005, 21:03:48 UTC

AAARRRGGHH!!!

You know what is most collosally stupid about this? I mean, aside from all the completely self-evident collosal stupidity.

It is possible to miscarry without ever having known you were pregnant.It happens all the time. Women skip a period, go, hey, maybe I'm pregnant. Then they get their next period as scheduled, maybe a little heavier, and go, ok, maybe not. I remember reading (wish I knew where) that as many as half of all conceptions are spontaneously aborted, i.e., miscarried, often due to genetic abnormalities, and often before a woman even knows conception has occurred ( ... )

thisficklemob January 7 2005, 21:05:01 UTC

I meant colossal, obviously.

thisficklemob January 7 2005, 21:14:11 UTC

And the DailyKos entry covers all this. I was just overwhelmed with crankiness and responded right off. *sigh*

Makes me want to get one of those "Keep your laws off my body" t-shirts. And a pitchfork, for poking the bums of the ignorant menfolk when they try to legislate their ignorance of and disdain for the female anatomy into law.

I still think the mass-reporting of miscarriages should be a form of civil protest if this bill becomes law. (Which I seriously doubt.)

bandgeek January 8 2005, 01:48:05 UTC

Better yet, perhaps I should call in every month and report my not-pregnantness -- so they don't have to come to my house and stand watch over my uterus.

Really, though, as the article says, it's just another attempt at creating a precedent for the personhood of a fetus.

Unfortunately, my power is limited here, as I don't live in Virginia ...

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