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Monday, October 3, 2011

Would Bringing Back Post-Natal Abortions Fit with Your Ideology?

Recently I found an image on Reddit of Pro-Lifers with signs that only confirm my deepest fears of how far right can the right wing nutcases go. They held signs that said : KILL WOMEN, NOT BABIES, and DEATH PENALTY 4 WOMAN WHO ABORT. I can only imagine this going one step further before the line is crossed, and I cannot imagine it going any further than this (and fear if it does) :

KILL INFANTS THE MOMENT THEY LEAVE THE WOMB, SO THEY CAN NEVER HAVE AN ABORTION.

Does that fit with the right wing ideology? Should we bring back the arts of abortion from the 13th Century? That is, bringing back post-natal abortions? It should fit with the right wing religious's ideology, since apparently the moment anything comes out of the vaginal canal, then it can just go die!

If life is sacred, then why is Capital Punishment still an option? Can we not think of the Death Penalty as a post-natal abortion? Essentially, we can think of Ted Bundy being aborted during the 176th trimester.

While all of this may seem satirical and humorous, it really shouldn't be funny, because this is how far right these religious conservatives are. I was recently informed of another thing about South Carolina, my home state, that makes me ashamed I am from there. In 1944, the State of South Caroline executed the youngest person ever executed in the United States. George Stinney (an African American) was 14 years old when he was convicted of murdering two white girls. He was executed 81 days following the murders. In fact, he was so small that he had to sit on phone books to have the electrode reach his head, and the adult-sized mask fell off during his convulsions, so the crowd had to watch the dying face of a 14 year old child being executed. He was aborted in his 66th trimester.

I can no longer defend the South. I'm embarrassed to say I was born there.

So let's understand the ultra-right wing's ideology : abortion is bad, but executions are cool. Then post-natal abortion is perfect! At least we won't have to bring back alleyway abortions and risk the lives of thousands of women with coat hangers again! The moment that baby's head starts poking out, just stab it in the head, just like we used to do Pre-Enlightenment. Returning to the good old days... ahh, yes, the Golden Days. The days when women were oppressed, daddy beat his kids and wife, black people were not considered actual people, animals had to stand trail, and we didn't have TV. Maybe we can bring back stoning people to death!

Women can still live and babies can still die! Hooray loopholes!

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