{"id":1180,"date":"2005-01-22T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/22\/politics-abortion\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:45","slug":"politics-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/22\/politics-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics \u2013 Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodness gracious, I got a right wing comment<\/a> on my blog. <\/p>\n

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I’ve heard it said by leftists that men have no right to have an opinion about abortion. Well, then, what about women unwilling to engage in the procreative act with a man?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Abortion is a constitutional right, but I’ll still address this issue by Issue<\/p>\n

Anti-choice people do not care about fetuses<\/h3>\n

If anti-choice people thought a fetus was a person, then they would never make an exception in case of rape or incest or anything. That wouldn\u2019t matter. A person is a person. When someone miscarried, they would mourn it like a dead child. They don\u2019t. They would have a ritual to name a fetus or otherwise celebrate its conception. This would be a religious celebration. I know of no such Christian celebration.
\nMore than half of conceptions are never born. Is the afterlife overrun with the souls of those who never made it past a few cells?
\nA fetus, therefore, is only a person when a woman is pregnant by having consensual sex. Pregnancy is thus imposed upon women, if unwanted, as punishment. Women need to keep their bodies under control. If they do something they shouldn\u2019t have, a person may be thrust upon them. If they were attacked or did not consent, then it\u2019s not morally a person. Obviously, this has more to do with controlling women\u2019s sexuality than with fetal people.<\/p>\n

Controlling Women\u2019s Sexuality Directly Effects me<\/h3>\n

If the only allowable sex is in marriage between a man and a woman, well, my life sucks then. Men are just not cute. I appreciate that people have different religious views than I do, but hopefully this is not a theocracy and what I do that doesn\u2019t negatively effect any other person<\/b> is my own business.<\/p>\n

Just cuz I\u2019m a dyke doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019ll never be pregnant<\/h3>\n

I read a few years ago that there was a gaybe-boom going on. Artificial insemination is all the rage. You can do it at home with a willing donor and a turkey baster. (It’s not the<\/em> procreative act, but it’s certainly one of them.) I\u2019ve been thinking about having kids. It\u2019s terrible to contemplate, but something could go horribly wrong. I can\u2019t say for certain that I\u2019ll never have an abortion.
\nI can\u2019t say for certain that I will never date (or whatever) a boy. I mean, people change their minds.
\nWomen sometimes get raped. A small percentage of raped women get pregnant from it. Less than half of reported<\/em> rapes get prosecuted. If women don\u2019t want to report that they\u2019ve been raped and, when they do, half the time prosecutors don\u2019t think there\u2019s enough evidence to take it to court, how is an exception for rape supposed to work? Weeks later, when she realizes that she\u2019s pregnant, the victim comes forward and says what happened and there\u2019s no evidence? That\u2019s supposed to be in a court hearing? Or would we take her at her word?
\nOr if she does report it, but the DA decides it\u2019s a case of he-said-she-said. If there\u2019s not enough evidence to convict a rapist, then how could there be enough evidence to terminate a person. Except that a fetus isn\u2019t a person, or the circumstances wouldn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

People can have opinions on any damn thing they want<\/h3>\n

I have opinions on lots of things. I have an opinion on how Russia ought to handle its oil companies. I formed it by reading the BBC\u2019s news feed. I could blog about it here and probably only Marek<\/a> would care. But I have an opinion.
\nI have zero voice in the matter though. I\u2019m not a Russian. I don\u2019t get to vote in Russia. I will never be in a capacity where I make a decision about a Russian oil company.
\nPro-choice<\/em> means I think women should be empowered to chose how they live their lives and make their own decisions about sex and procreation. If somebody wants to have a baby, great! If somebody wants to terminate, she can do that too. Birth control, fabulous. Dating girls, awesome. Women should control their own bodies. I\u2019m a person, so I get an opinion. I\u2019m a person so I get to control my own body. We live in a free society, so I don\u2019t get to control anybody else\u2019s body. How is that not clear?<\/p>\n

Roe Vs Wade Established the idea of a constitutional right to privacy<\/h3>\n

Pregnancies end all the time. Sometimes by accident. Sometimes on purpose. How it happened is between a woman and her doctor. That’s the descision. I like having a right to privacy and in this era of spyware, homeland security and gigantic data-mining operations, I really don’t want to lose that right. Everyone, possibly preggers or not, has an interest in whether that right stays or gets chucked out. (I would make a joke about babies and bathwater, but it’s in terrible taste.) since it’s clear that anti-choice peopel don’t really care about fetuses, I wonder how much of their politics has to do with maintaining heteronormativity and male domination and how much has to do with the idea of destroying constitutionally-protected privacy rights.<\/p>\n

I am a lousy speller<\/h3>\n

It\u2019s always good to point out a misspelling in a flame, because it shows that you have much better spell checking software than I do. Also, I got an A in spelling when I was in 8th grade, but I failed typing. I hope this is somehow consoling. <\/p>\n

Please go counter-protest tomorrow<\/h2>\n

10 AM Powell and Market. I would be there if I could.
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Goodness gracious, I got a right wing comment on my blog. I’ve heard it said by leftists that men have no right to have an opinion about abortion. Well, then, what about women unwilling to engage in the procreative act with a man? Abortion is a constitutional right, but I’ll still address this issue by … Continue reading Politics \u2013 Abortion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3430,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}