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stoney321's post for today about the bill that just passed in Utah. If I'm reading it right, and the interpretations given at Jezebel and elsewhere are correct, they are attempting to penalize women who have miscarriages -- even in the first trimester when one in five pregnancies spontaneously end. The idea is that anyone who was seen as being "reckless" -- and isn't that a BROAD term -- might have been trying to cause an abortion which is murder of an unborn child. The only hope that this won't become law is a veto by the governor.
Look. I really wish abortion didn't exist because we lived in a perfect world where rape and incest never happened, where teenaged girls weren't so frightened of their parents that they can't tell them they're pregnant, where everyone who's pregnant but isn't ready for motherhood is automatically matched up with a couple who want to adopt, but we don't.
Women have to be allowed to take care of their own health choices -- that includes the mental health choice that "I don't want to be a mother" -- and those choices need to be respected.
I've known two women who've miscarried -- I've probably known many more, but these were two where due to circumstances I knew about it -- one was devastated and one was relieved. They are both valid human emotions in the situation. What neither of them needed was the government trying to determine whether this physical, and in one case emotional, blow should be prosecuted.
stoney321's post for today about the bill that just passed in Utah. If I'm reading it right, and the interpretations given at Jezebel and elsewhere are correct, they are attempting to penalize women who have miscarriages -- even in the first trimester when one in five pregnancies spontaneously end. The idea is that anyone who was seen as being "reckless" -- and isn't that a BROAD term -- might have been trying to cause an abortion which is murder of an unborn child. The only hope that this won't become law is a veto by the governor.Look. I really wish abortion didn't exist because we lived in a perfect world where rape and incest never happened, where teenaged girls weren't so frightened of their parents that they can't tell them they're pregnant, where everyone who's pregnant but isn't ready for motherhood is automatically matched up with a couple who want to adopt, but we don't.
Women have to be allowed to take care of their own health choices -- that includes the mental health choice that "I don't want to be a mother" -- and those choices need to be respected.
I've known two women who've miscarried -- I've probably known many more, but these were two where due to circumstances I knew about it -- one was devastated and one was relieved. They are both valid human emotions in the situation. What neither of them needed was the government trying to determine whether this physical, and in one case emotional, blow should be prosecuted.
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Date: 2010-02-28 06:50 pm (UTC)Plus, this so-called "rights of the unborn" is a smoke screen and they know it. If they were so concerned about unborn children, they'd be rallying about the rights *after* the children are born. Since they aren't, it's proof that they're interested only in controlling women and shoving them back in the kitchen and whore house.