Thursday, February 23, 2006
Save The Children, and Screw The Mothers
Remember that bill I mentioned earlier passed by the House in South Dakota, which would ban almost all forms of abortion in the states? Well, it just passed the Senate. Now, it heads back to the House for second approval, and then on to the Governor.
There's little chance that the bill will survive anything more than a stiff breeze from the Supreme Court. After all, the people who drafted it claim that they're using the bill to wait for someone to directly challenge it, at which point they'll take it to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade will be overturned, and unborn fetuses and fluffy bunnies will frolic in a sunny field while loose women die of justly-deserved sepsis brought on by rusty coathangers in back alleys. Even with a court stacked in favor of conservative leanings, the bill's just too controlling to be considered:
Republican Sen. Stan Adelstein of Rapid City had tried to amend the bill to include an exception for abortions for victims of rape. The amendment lost 14-21.
“To require a woman who has been savaged to carry the brutal attack result is a continued savagery unworthy of South Dakota,” he said.
Republican Sen. Lee Schoenbeck of Watertown objected.
Rape should be punished severely, he said, but the amendment is unfair to “some equally innocent souls who have no chance to stand and defend themselves.”
The Senate also defeated a proposed amendment to insert an exception to allow an abortion to protect the health of a pregnant woman. That was offered by Republican Sen. David Knudson. It failed on a 13-22 vote.
Yes, it doesn't matter whether your baby's birth is going to cause massive internal damage that may very well kill you, because life is precious.
The pro-life movement is, in a good number of cases, no longer about life; it's about control. It's about telling people what they can and cannot do, what recourses they can't take in the face of a horrible accident or worse. This bill is just another example of the attempted grasp on women's rights. Here's hoping that it goes no farther than South Dakota, and at best, not even there.
There's little chance that the bill will survive anything more than a stiff breeze from the Supreme Court. After all, the people who drafted it claim that they're using the bill to wait for someone to directly challenge it, at which point they'll take it to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade will be overturned, and unborn fetuses and fluffy bunnies will frolic in a sunny field while loose women die of justly-deserved sepsis brought on by rusty coathangers in back alleys. Even with a court stacked in favor of conservative leanings, the bill's just too controlling to be considered:
Republican Sen. Stan Adelstein of Rapid City had tried to amend the bill to include an exception for abortions for victims of rape. The amendment lost 14-21.
“To require a woman who has been savaged to carry the brutal attack result is a continued savagery unworthy of South Dakota,” he said.
Republican Sen. Lee Schoenbeck of Watertown objected.
Rape should be punished severely, he said, but the amendment is unfair to “some equally innocent souls who have no chance to stand and defend themselves.”
The Senate also defeated a proposed amendment to insert an exception to allow an abortion to protect the health of a pregnant woman. That was offered by Republican Sen. David Knudson. It failed on a 13-22 vote.
Yes, it doesn't matter whether your baby's birth is going to cause massive internal damage that may very well kill you, because life is precious.
The pro-life movement is, in a good number of cases, no longer about life; it's about control. It's about telling people what they can and cannot do, what recourses they can't take in the face of a horrible accident or worse. This bill is just another example of the attempted grasp on women's rights. Here's hoping that it goes no farther than South Dakota, and at best, not even there.
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What these stupid fucks can't begin to imagine is the number of suicides they're going to see as a result of this. Because a teen girl, all whacked out on pregnancy hormones and unable to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, particularly one that results from rape, is not exactly going to go happily marching off to the nearest adoption agency, you know? Do they not get that if the mother dies, the baby dies ANYWAY? Twice as many people die? Have they passed second grade math?
Sorry. Hot-button issue for me (as a former teen girl, and the mom of a future teen girl)(and, you know, a mostly decent and quasi-intelligent human being).
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Sorry. Hot-button issue for me (as a former teen girl, and the mom of a future teen girl)(and, you know, a mostly decent and quasi-intelligent human being).
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