I’m afraid
Merely because I had the bad luck to be born with a uterus instead of a penis.
Granted, having a penis would make me potentially stupid at any point on any day simply because an attractive uterus carrier wiggled their butt at me, or made sure I got a good look at their boobs, but at least if you’ve got a penis, a doctor cannot force decisions upon you.
And God doesn’t punish you for an abortion. And no one is trying to tell a doctor they can’t see you because of your skin color.
There are not words in the English language to tell you how disgusted, and terrified, I am of the actions taken by third-party individuals to make sure they had their way.
Here are the articles I read today that had me shaking my head and researching a way to buy a private island for cheap where no one could tell me how to handle my own body.
A FL doctor forces woman to bed rest. Because the valid concern of taking care of her two toddlers and making sure there was enough money in the house to put food on the table and make sure the power stays on, didn’t matter.
Woman arrested for admitting she thought of an abortion earlier in pregnancy. She’s pregnant with her third child, unemployed, and headed for divorce. I can see why she was thinking of abortion or adoption. She probably has to do creative math just to afford food for the kids she does have, and having a third child would only make things harder.
As for her falling down the stairs being an attempt at feticide… my last pregnancy was hell at times; I’d get so light headed and dizzy that if I didn’t lay down right away, I would fall down. I couldn’t get up suddenly, turn around suddenly, or even bend over to fast without risking passing out. And I lived in a second floor walk up, so the whole going up and down stairs thing was really a lot of fun for me.
How is providing reproductive health services a bad thing? I can’t even think of a smart-ass comment for this stupidity. My soul is retching because people this narrow-minded are in positions of power. Women, no matter color creed or height, should never be turned away from access to health services, whether its birth control or an abortion.
And, God does visit the sins of the mother upon the child. Now, I thought the Bible verse was ’sins of the father’, but don’t quote me on it. It’s been a long time since I read my Bible. That aside, the undiluted idiocy Bob Marshall is spewing on those statements is epic. And, if that was how God ran things, then why do some parents have a first born with disabilities? And who is to say that they even *think* the child is disabled? To a parent, their child is their child, no matter what.
And what about women like me, who didn’t abort their first born but the God who punishes abortions also made the mother miscarry? And more than one time, what about second or third or fourth miscarriages/stillbirths? Does God punish those, when He could just as easily be blamed as the reason for them?
Now, I’m not saying that all abortions are valid. I’ve known too many females who use abortion as a form of birth control versus using a condom, but I’m not going to deny someone an abortion either. It’s their choice to make, not mine. I don’t want to make decisions for their uterus anymore than I want them making decisions for mine.
