In which I’m shocked and apalled.
South Dakota is now well on its way to actually outlawing abortion:
South Dakota lawmakers yesterday approved the nation’s most far-reaching ban on abortion, setting the stage for new legal challenges that its supporters say they hope lead to an overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The measure, which passed the state Senate 23 to 12, makes it a felony for doctors to perform any abortion, except to save the life of a pregnant woman. The proposal still must be signed by Gov. Mike Rounds (R), who opposes abortion.
– from this article
I absolutely cannot imagine living in a country where abortion is illegal. (I’m starting to suspect that living in a young country founded by religious extremists is not ideal for me.) Too many babies is a Very Bad Idea, period, and nothing, nothing will stop people from making babies. HAS NO ONE LOOKED AT CHINA OR INDIA LATELY?
I’m not happy about the idea of using abortion as birth control, even though I’ve done it twice myself. Of course in a perfect world people wouldn’t get pregnant until they were ready to be parents, but this? Is not a perfect world.
I’m much more unhappy about the idea of people without the appropriate emotional, financial, or social structures having kids they don’t want just because the rubber broke or they were too dumb to use one.
Abortion is not an ideal solution to fertility issues, no. But until we live in a perfect society peopled by intelligent, reflective, self-aware creatures with self-discipline and compassion, it’s a very necessary procedure.
We’ve already got an abundance of children surviving in hideously unacceptable living conditions. Let’s feed, shelter, and soothe those little human beings first, just to prove our own benevolence and compassion to ourselves. Then, once we’ve got that mess straightened out, then we can start forcing each other to bring more of them into the world, eh?
Please, visit Planned Parenthood (or the pro-choice org of your choice) and donate a few bucks for the cause, or write your rep to let them know you do not want that crap happening in your state.
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OK, Mush. First, your site looks awesome. I wish I knew how to do this stuff. Second, your post today is right on. Guess your day off yesterday really fueled your productivity today.
You run WordPress, right? Just go here and browse around, find a theme you like, and upload it to your server. Easy. Let me know if you want me to make you a custom header for it. -m
the new template is lovely. though in my old age i have to make the font larger, but i do that on other sties.
as to the anti-abortion legislation, you can bet that they’re not going to support the mothers of children who end up being born because of their legislation. there’ll be a hue and cry about welfare being paid out and how there are so many fatherless kids…there’s going to be an upsurge of backroom abortionists, more deaths because of them, and any clinics in ohter states near the borders are going to make a whole lot of money
I must say you are cool that you are able to share your political opinion with legitimate reasons
They could go outside of SD and get what they need if they wanted to? I only read one article in the newspaper about it but they cannot even do the abortion if they got raped? I wonder how those mothers who were raped and got pregnant would say to their kids.
You are here on this earth because I was raped? no, that doesn’t sound right. And I hope rapists should definitely support victims until rapists die. But still it doesn’t sound right to me.
Last Sunday, when I went to church, this old single guy with the funny hat told us in the mass something about evil and so on. But I couldn’t help stop thinking his funny hat and weird clothes are more like a crime in my definition.
Cool template!
Damnit. Now I’m ashamed to have been born in South Dakota.
Well said, Mush.