In Texas, "A" is a Scarlet Letter They Hang Around the Necks of Women Seeking Abortion. Human rights are women’s rights. No woman is free who is prohibited from controlling her own body. And I may suffer significant blowback for posting this article. I don’t care. Let someone take me to court for “aiding and abetting” pregnant women seeking abortions. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I let fear sideline me in this fight.
Also: neurological development of the fetus at 18 weeks can *look* like there's a brain inside the skull, but that's an illusion. Nerve cells have multiplied inside the head so as to inflate it like a balloon, but they have no effective inter-connectivity and are thus utterly devoid of even the abstract possibility of functioning like a brain. Beginning some time around wk 18 (as I recall) the fetus begins flushing these out, and *REAL* nerve cells begin multiplying in the space left behind. This process is not completed until around wk 23, when there is at last something that at least might function as a brain. I'm not sure if it tells us anything that this is right around the time of the earliest possibility of viability.
I've heard different versions of this story, but the one my mother told me was that she had two late term abortions (carrying them to term would have killed her and the fetus) BEFORE she had me.
"[I]t’s not life they’re trying to protect; it’s control over women’s reproductive freedom."
Exactly. It's about the power of socially conservative white men who can't get laid themselves and are determined to punish women for having sex for ANY purpose other than procreation. Missionary position. 60 seconds. Four pumps and a grunt. Wham, bam, get the &$^# outta my bedroom. Wait nine months...and there you go.
It's sad, really. Republicans who call themselves "Christians" could do so much good for families and those in need. Instead, it's about cruelty...and make no mistake, the cruelty IS the point, because if you can make someone suffer you have control over them. And for Republicans, it's all about exercising control.
There are FAR too many people in Texas who have their noses WAY too far up in other people's business. For a party that claims to be about "small government," it appears that what they want is government small enough to cram into a woman's vagina.
Almost 50 years after Roe v. Wade...and it feels as if we're back where we started. The bullies are winning because they continue to fight...and because Donald Trump appointed pro-life justices to the Supreme Court, just as he said he would.
At the risk of making it sound as if America is turning into a Margaret Atwood novel, I do fear that this country may well be taking a turn towards becoming very Gideon-like...and once we begin heading down that road, it will be difficult to turn back.
Heartfelt and beautifuly scribed. This deserves a worldwide readership. Brava, Stacey! X
Also: neurological development of the fetus at 18 weeks can *look* like there's a brain inside the skull, but that's an illusion. Nerve cells have multiplied inside the head so as to inflate it like a balloon, but they have no effective inter-connectivity and are thus utterly devoid of even the abstract possibility of functioning like a brain. Beginning some time around wk 18 (as I recall) the fetus begins flushing these out, and *REAL* nerve cells begin multiplying in the space left behind. This process is not completed until around wk 23, when there is at last something that at least might function as a brain. I'm not sure if it tells us anything that this is right around the time of the earliest possibility of viability.
I've heard different versions of this story, but the one my mother told me was that she had two late term abortions (carrying them to term would have killed her and the fetus) BEFORE she had me.
Brava!
"[I]t’s not life they’re trying to protect; it’s control over women’s reproductive freedom."
Exactly. It's about the power of socially conservative white men who can't get laid themselves and are determined to punish women for having sex for ANY purpose other than procreation. Missionary position. 60 seconds. Four pumps and a grunt. Wham, bam, get the &$^# outta my bedroom. Wait nine months...and there you go.
It's sad, really. Republicans who call themselves "Christians" could do so much good for families and those in need. Instead, it's about cruelty...and make no mistake, the cruelty IS the point, because if you can make someone suffer you have control over them. And for Republicans, it's all about exercising control.
There are FAR too many people in Texas who have their noses WAY too far up in other people's business. For a party that claims to be about "small government," it appears that what they want is government small enough to cram into a woman's vagina.
Almost 50 years after Roe v. Wade...and it feels as if we're back where we started. The bullies are winning because they continue to fight...and because Donald Trump appointed pro-life justices to the Supreme Court, just as he said he would.
At the risk of making it sound as if America is turning into a Margaret Atwood novel, I do fear that this country may well be taking a turn towards becoming very Gideon-like...and once we begin heading down that road, it will be difficult to turn back.
This just in: SILENCE = DEATH