Reply #63: You are preaching to the choir here.... [View All]

You're honesty and sheer bravery is admirable... the issue of abortion is so volatile, let alone late-term abortion, that even though I personally know women who have had it done, I can't imagine writing about it on a message board, even one that is supposedly populated by Progressives such a DU, for fear that if I hear anyone bash these women for their choice I would have an aneurysm because I get so angry knowing that the people doing the bashing haven't the slightest clue what these women have gone through.

I don't care if a woman has an abortion for so-called "trivial" reasons....it's not like she goes skipping to Planned Parenthood to get one done. I would argue that no woman does.

Frankly, I'm sick of this debate. Like I said in a previous post, I've concluded women just need to put their foot down and tell these bastards how it is.....as long as a fetus depends on a woman's body for their survival, the woman's right trump the fetus's, point blank. It may sound harsh, but that's how it is. Deal with it.

It takes care of the whole late term abortion debate, in that it bans abortions of fetuses who are viable outside the womb....other than that, a woman's right to her life and her body trumps that of anything or anyone growing inside her womb.

As for whether the fetus is a life, or just the potential for life, or if it has a soul is a question for religion, be it Christianity or atheism. And yet once again, someone else's need to do God's work by "saving the babies" trumps a woman's control over her own life, or, rather, protects her from the burden of facing the consequences of her own sins. Talk about denying someone agency....this should be and in my eyes the ultimate insult to women.

So I say, just fuck it. No one is going to tell me what to do with my body. Of course, with this brings a whole new understanding of the whole Madonna/Hoar dichotomy, but I really believe I'm better off being labeled a FemNazi than to be circumscribed in the itty bitty circle of what it is to be a "real woman," but I digress.....

Sorry for the rant...this is just pissing me off to no end.....