Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Abortion legislation in 2011
EARLY this morning I was up listening to MSNBC and I think I heard the news caster doing a commentary on republicans working to put more restrictions and restraints on abortion and a woman's right to choose, even in instances where the mom's life is at danger. I also heard her say that 87% of the counties in the United States have no access to abortion. Republicans have their right to whatever platform they want, but I have to wonder.......why force women to have babies and then work so hard at cutting the social programs that give these babies a fighting chance at any quality of life. In other words, repubs want to force women to have babies and then not assist them in taking care of them. Go figure. The babies are brought up in substandard conditions, given a poor education, enter into a life of crime, become permanent parts of the criminal justice system (which cost the tax payers lots of money) and some go on to be killed by the very institution that forced them into being. I am not necessarily pro-abortion, but I am for a woman's right to choose. It is just always ironic to me the contradictory positions that politicians ultimately hold.
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It has always behooved me that men sit at the forefront and make these decisions for women as though they are the keepers of life. Pisses me off frankly. Whether one believes in abortion or not, that right should not be taken away from her. Especially in the case of rape or incest. It is unbelievably insulting to subject a woman to someones "ideals". We are stooped into believing that "minorties" are the largest population of abortions, when in fact, there are just as many middle class and up profiles that undergo abortion but goes unreported. Just last year I read a report that unwanted pregnacies amongst "minorities" had decreased, so what gives here?
ReplyDeleteAgain, these "purest" ideals are forced because the minority population serves a institutional purpose for the wealthy. It's a subtle form of dictation. More babies makes an ongoing cycle that perputates the inability to rise from poverty. The poverty perputates more crime which is a trillion dollar business in jails being built across the country. Privatize corrections owned by the wealthy. There is certainly a method to the madness.