vlyons
vlyons's JournalMaybe we should threaten to do a Lysistrata
Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired.
The majority of women getting abortions are already mothers
Single mothers, married poor mothers, who can't afford to have another child. Mothers working 2 and 3 jobs, struggling to care for the kids they have. Mothers with no job paid maternity leave, and unable to pay for child care when they go back to work.
WTF are we doing? WTF society are we building? You complain about crime now? Just wait a few years down the road, when these children figure out that stealing, dealing, and prostitution are ways to get by.
Doesn't the world have enough unwanted children already?
Abortions are not going away
Soon instead of safe, clean medical abortions, there will be dangerous and dirty abortions. Republicans are now the "coat hanger" party. Abortions are not going away. Women have been terminating pregnancies for thousands of years by jumping out of windows, falling off horses, starvation, eating poison, and visiting Aunt Coathanger Katie and Cousin Hatpin Hattie.
Unwanted newborn babies will be smothered, thrown in the garbage, buried in the garden or woods, left on church steps, and put in adoption agencies.
You think for-profit prisons are dreadful, just wait until enterprising Republicans open for-profit adoption agencies and for-profit orphanages. Won't those be a booming business?
It's not just an attack on abortion rights, but also an attack on privacy rights,
which impacts gay marriage, inter-racial marriage, sex change operations, and access to contraception. It will take a constitutional amendment to specifically put privacy rights into the constitution. Remember what we did in the 1960s to shut down the Vietnam war? That type of opposition and greater is what is required now.
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