In recent days, two new attacks on "Roe V. Wade" have been launched. In South Dakota , and in Mississippi, efforts are now underway to outlaw abortions. What concerns me most about this issue is the fact that EVERY time that someone appears on T.V. to denounce this "murder", this person IS A MAN! I can't help but be reminded of the judicial concept of "a Jury of one's peers".. Since when are MEN qualified to decide WOMEN'S reproductive and health issues?? If these "laws" eventually "go-to-court", I would suggest that the plaintiffs DEMAND a "Jury-of-their-peers", ENTIRELY COMPRISED OF WOMEN OF "REPRODUCTIVE-AGE"!! When MEN can "get-pregnant", birth-control will be safe, readily available, and FREE. In Mississippi, (a state with FAR too many redundant letters in it's name) MEN have decide to severly restrict ANY abortions.... even those where the life of the woman is in jeopardy, even those as the result of rape or incest!! (It would seems that the concepts of "incest" and "rape" are well-protected traditions in Mississippi!) I have often asked: "How many un-wanted, drug-addicted, inbred, fetal-alcohol-deformed, birth-defected babies have been adopted by these same MEN who seek to impose these pregnancies on some other women??" NO-ONE honestly believes that abortion should be a "first-choice-option" for birth-control. It is too -often used when other methods of birth-control are unavailable or illegal. These same "MEN" have tried to stop the "Morning-after-pill", claiming that "Life begins at conception".Too many people have forgotten the "Old-days"... the days of "back-alleys" and "coat-hangers".... the days when abortions were illegal, but still performed. Making such things "illegal" has NEVER worked; any more than "prohibition" or the "War-On-Drugs" have worked. I see mis-guided fools, spending countless hours in front of "Planned-Parenthood"... singing "Jesus Loves the Little Children", etc., and "protesting" with graphic signs of full-term fetuses. Where is their "compassion" for the 'LIVING"??? REAL, LIVING children are suffering and dying all over the world; Why don't they work for THEM??? The "Religious-Right" has been vehemently attacking embryonic-stem-cell research; attacking science which can treat and possibly CURE the diseases of LIVING, SUFFERING HUMANS!! They contend that these "Blastulas".. (microscopic clusters of cells) are "life".... yet NONE of these could ever survive outside of a human, female womb. These embryos are NO LARGER THAN THE "PERIOD" AT THE END OF THIS SENTANCE!!!..Researchers have recently used embryonic-stem-cells to repair spinal-cord injuries in laboratory mice, and will soon begin trials on humans. Have we forgotten that some of the "Evangelical-Right" are also known as "Christian Scientists"?? Those MORONS who believe that diseases "are God's will"!! and must not be treated!!! Some of these MORONS are the same ones that play-with-poisonous snakes during religious ceremonies... believing that "God will protect them"!!! A recently-sighted bumper-sticker declared: "God save us from your followers!"
- posted by Dave @ 1:07 AM