"...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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[technocowboy.livejournal.com]

And keep in mind that there are other ways aside from invasive procedures to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. Nobody should be told what they can and cannot do with their body. There are so many things that I could say, and want to say, but you know what? I'm a guy. I'll never have to make the case for or against abortion for myself. Each woman should be able to make that decision for herself.

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

And keep in mind that there are other ways aside from invasive procedures to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. Nobody should be told what they can and cannot do with their body. There are so many things that I could say, and want to say, but you know what? I'm a guy. I'll never have to make the case for or against abortion for myself. Each woman should be able to make that decision for herself.

Bless you, dear, that's kind of what I was hoping to hear from at least one of the guys commenting on this post. This whole thing may not seem frightening to most folks, hey, it's just a single procedure done quite infrequently; but listen to what the people who are behind this law really want. They see this as a stepping stone to undoing Roe v. Wade, I'm not saying this, they are.

There is an agenda at work here, that goes far beyond a single procedure, and it's an agenda that scares the piss out of me.

[tamago.livejournal.com]

What galls me is that most of the people I hear campaigning against abortion also seem to be vehemently opposed to birth control.

I found out yesterday that a woman I knew in high school is pregnant with her fifth child. What makes people think that huge families like that are a good idea in the modern age?

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

What galls me is that most of the people I hear campaigning against abortion also seem to be vehemently opposed to birth control.

Not just birth control, but sex education too, lest we forget. Sadly these folks didn't seem to catch onto the concept that the "Just say no" campaign on drugs didn't work. Abstinence, it's what's for dinner.

[tamago.livejournal.com]

Beef- It's what made America BIG.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

I'm a guy. I'll never have to make the case for or against abortion for myself. Each woman should be able to make that decision for herself.

One of the oddest conversations I ever had involved my (then) 60 year old staunchly Republican father saying much the same thing. For him, it's a woman's issue and something men have no right mucking with. OTOH, simply *because* it's a "female thing", I doubt very much he even pays attention to abortion laws, or that he would make any kind of a political stand should the the right to choose be taken away.