Confessions of a Would-Be Teenage Clinic Bomber, Part II, or

[bellatrys]

Averting the Sin Cooties is All That Matters

Sorry, conventionalists, I'm going back to my old Victorian letter-writer/typist's style of using underlining for primary emphasis because it's just too distracting for me to use bold for primary emphasis all the time and italics don't always show up well. Links are burnt-orange and usually bolded in my

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[fledgist]

Years ago, Bruce Page wrote, "trust your poets, and be wary of your politicians." I can only think of one poet right now, Auden

Auden

[julifolo]

Thanks for posting that. Every now and then I encounter Auden, and it's always worthwhile.

[sajia]

Don't, don't feel guilty. I feel guilty that in the last seven years I lived in Canada (I'm a citizen) I hardly took part in any activism, and recently I've been too busy hustling to support my artistry to actually do anything. Which reminds me, I need to send in my vote as soon as possible.
Thinking that you are responsible for everything wrong that happens in the world is another form of madness. It was that madness that lead me to my bipolar breakdowns in 2000 and 2002. Enlightened self-interest ( the kind that recognizes that making other people happy makes me happy too) has something to be said for it.
I rage against Obama's asshatry everyday, but as someone said, the left could have done a better job of organizing itself against the birthers. I'm not even sure a decent far left party won't sell us out. 8 years of terror has worn us all out - and at least I never had to worry about food and shelter or being arrested.

[hrafn]

Wow.

I think I'm too gobsmacked at the moment for a more thoughtful response. Not that it's really surprising, and yet-

[violaswamp]

This is fascinating, and to me it explains the fetishization of innocence you often see among pro-lifers. Nobody is as innocent as a fetus, of course, because a fetus can't do or even think anything. That's why abortion is not only murder but far worse than anything else. That's why the Church excommunicated the mother who helped her daughter, a nine-year-old rape victim pregnant with twins, get an abortion, but not the stepfather who raped her. The death penalty, torture, war--all of those things are bad but are not an offense against Innocence, that blessed mindless agency-less state. Those things are done to actual human beings who can think and fight and disobey, while abortion is done by a guilty daughter of Eve to a helpless baby. So, ultimately, you don't have to contaminate yourself by caring about the other things so much when you have abortion and its perfect victims to champion.

[lyorn]

Innocence in this is only not having a voice. A fetus cannot disagree with them and demands nothing of anyone but their mother.

The moment the fetus becomes a baby it's noisy and smelly and wants things and needs things, creates medical costs, blocks the streets in its pram, creates a public nuisance by wanting to be breast-fed, and it gets only worse from there.

[nenya_kanadka]

Ooh, *this* really rings true.

[hagsrus]

I'm so glad you're continuing the story -- I found the first part most interesting.

Hugs from a fellow Slacktivist fan!