"...my posessions are causing me suspicion, but there's no proof."

[ebonlock]

So Sixpence None the Richer have done a cover of "Don't Dream it's Over". They took what was a lovely ballad and sucked all the life and emotion out of it. Rather like Whitney Houston's cover of "Colors of the Wind". I just sighed when I heard it this morning and have been playing the Crowded House original in my mind ever since.

The songs of my youth are being "covered" now, I feel so ancient.

And my computer at work is misbehaving again. If I had a baseball bat I'd beat the thing down to its component parts, and then I'd stomp on those for good measure. The system is either "ok" or it's dropping network for no goddman reason at all. And even ok is starting to piss me off. I'm sure some people would label it "quirky", to me it's more "If you don't cut this shit out I'm going to heave you out the nearest window!".

Grrr.

And what was one of the first things I read this morning? Here's a little hint:
Chipping Away at Roe

Well, looks like the fundies are getting what they want after all. Excuse me while I find a nice quiet, secluded place to vomit.

There, much better.

I could spend the morning posting links here, begging you all to read up on the subject, sign petitions, do something...but I'm just too heartsick to do it. I'll wail to the heavens tomorrow, today I need to think about what this means to me, what it means to my future. It scares me, I won't deny that, it sickens me, it makes me angry too.

I grew up knowing my body and my reproductive organs were my own, to do with as I saw fit. That may no longer be entirely true. I can't be trusted, apparently, with my body's own ability to create life.

It's just one procedure, many will say, but it opens the door, and what's beyond that door should terrify every woman of childbearing age. And if you don't think about this, don't educate yourself, don't work against what may be coming, then you will have no one to blame but yourself when you lose the right to choose.

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[mallen.livejournal.com]

From the article:

That means that for all the sound and fury, the law could have no practical impact. Even some on the right wonder why abortion opponents have spent so much energy on it. Mark Crutcher, of the anti-abortion group Life Dynamics, says the partial-birth fight has allowed politicians to take a public stand without any real consequences. “Bush gets to play pro-life without having to do anything pro-life,” he says.

D&X accounted for 0.17% of all procedures last year. This law will pass, it will be signed. It will be challenged in court. It will be struck down.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't make gestures like contacting your Congresscritter (Anna Eshoo -- she will already vote against this anyway), but it doesn't sound like the beginning of the end of legal abortion as we know it.

[centerfire.livejournal.com]

Testify.

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

D&X accounted for 0.17% of all procedures last year. This law will pass, it will be signed. It will be challenged in court. It will be struck down.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't make gestures like contacting your Congresscritter (Anna Eshoo -- she will already vote against this anyway), but it doesn't sound like the beginning of the end of legal abortion as we know it.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but I think the proponents of the law are pretty clear that they see this as a major victory against abortion as a whole. They are at least up front about their goals where this is concerned, and I'm taking that into consideration.

[mallen.livejournal.com]

They are at least up front about their goals where this is concerned, and I'm taking that into consideration.

I don't think this particular policy point has ever been "veiled" by the anti-choice folks. Yes, they're happy. Yay for us, look what we did, but again, they're all mostly cheering because they haven't had much to cheer about since 1974.

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

A good feint still hurts if it's ignored. I suspect this still applies if you swing ideology instead of steel.

If I assume that the actual motions for this law are obviously futile, I would guess that the proponents are trying to convince people that it's a major victory. Social truth does not correspond to actual truth, but it still can be effective in furthering one's goals--especially when there are so many people out there who won't (for whatever reason) think for themselves.

I do believe it's my turn to say, "Testify" *G*

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the law might technically amount to nothing, but it's still being passed, and still making people think more about abortion, and like the article also said, "gaining points with the public could be the biggest win of all." If we estimate roughly half the country is male, and the majority of them don't favor abortion (because they just can't understand, there's nothing comparable in male physiology; they may not be strongly against, but they won't fight for it), and then add in all the devout Christians, male and female, and well. Doesn't look so good for us if such things are ever put to a vote of some sort, especially given the current political climate. Like E said, this opens a door. Starts things in motion, gives them at least a nominal victory, in that they got something passed. And if the judicial system ever gets as stacked as congress has, well. Again, doesn't look so good.

My body, my choice. Why in god's name would anyone want a child brought into the world by a mother who doesn't want it?

[mallen.livejournal.com]

If we estimate roughly half the country is male, and the majority of them don't favor abortion (because they just can't understand, there's nothing comparable in male physiology; they may not be strongly against, but they won't fight for it)

Hey, I resemble that remark.

I can sum up my philosophy about abortion in three words: legal, safe, infrequent. If push came to shove -- and I mean a real sea change on abortion -- I'd be willing to do what I could to effect change back to where we are now.

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I can sum up my philosophy about abortion in three words: legal, safe, infrequent. If push came to shove -- and I mean a real sea change on abortion -- I'd be willing to do what I could to effect change back to where we are now.

I'm going to hold you to that, dear };)