Mike Pouraryan
The law is doubly bad. First with it's condescending tone towards women, assuming that we are too ignorant to know exactly what pregnant means. Secondly it is another step towards the "life begins at conception" tripe, which is only one step away from "sperm are people too". Oddly enough the latter has more Biblical basis in that masturbation is a sin, however that would require laws telling men what to do with their own bodies and sexualities. Something that would never happen. Zuzu hits the nail in the head about what this is really about.
It's quite clear that this is an issue of control -- meaning, that the people making these laws do not want women to have it. They are certainly uncomfortable with the idea that women exercise moral agency and have power to run their own lives in a way that other people -- their husbands, say -- would not approve of. So they create these elaborate fictions in which women are simple creatures, ignorant of the consequences of their actions ("consequences" being a term that nearly always pops up in conversations with forced-birthers who try to convince you that really, they have no wish to control women, it's all about the innocent babies, who are SO NOT a punishment for having sex) and heedless of the function of their reproductive organs. Why, it's a simple matter of educating them about the proper moral position -- and then they'd see the light! And if we have to lie to them, so much the better. It's for their own good, the poor dears.
Which is why it bothers me when others say abortion or Roe v. wade is a nonissue. This is much more than just abortion, it is even more than just reproductive rights. It is about controlling half of the population, it is about telling them what they can and cannot do with their own bodies, it is about attempting to silence them by limiting their options and forcing them to be what they are told to be. And when that happens the economy is affected, health care for everyone is affected, many areas that seem not in tune with women's reproductive rights are affected when the women who should be there are gone due to unpreventable pregnancies.
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Today one man demanded I show tolerance toward his desire to control my uterus and another man told me that by being pro-choice I am an advocate of 'racial hygeine'.
When are they going to leave us alone?
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