Healthcare & Abortion

Thursday, November 12, 2009

I have A.D.D. - Advanced Democratic Disillusionment.
The point of the republicans’ “party of no” attitude towards healthcare was illuminated at 5:00 this morning as I was watching the pundits and their guests.
I could not sleep.
Still coughing my head off.
The republicans, who have tried to overturn Roe v Wade, found a way to practically eliminate abortion services for women:
1. They are demanding that no public funds are used to fund abortion services. OK. Religious people who pat taxes and have a problem with their tax dollars being spent on abortion have a point. But don’t stop me from paying for one on my own…
2. Hospitals that accept federal funding would be prevented from providing abortion services. That means clinics as well… like planned parenthood…
3. Women who want to use their own money (no public money, their own, EARNED money) would not be able to use their own money to purchase an insurance policy which included abortion services.
This pretty much ends abortions in the united states.
So, where do women go to get an abortion if they need one?
Are we back to the dirty alleys, questionable ‘doctors’ or trips to mexico (yuck)?
Is this where we want women to turn when they are stuck either with:
1. An unwanted pregnancy due to rape or incest,
2. An unwanted pregnancy due to a - heavens forbid - a mistake?
It might be argued that I have no standing, as I have already gone through menopause and obviously will never need another abortion.
Let me tell you this: any woman who has had an abortion does not make the decision lightly. An abortion, while a simple procedure, is NOT easy.
It’s not comfortable.
It’s not fun.
And, at some point, I feel that MEN ought not to have anything to say in terms of legislating abortion or not.
I’ve said this for over 30 years: if men had to give birth through the heads of their penises, we would have better, SAFER birth control and LEGAL abortion services.
Hands down.
Certainly, the government has subsidies for Viagra - so we know it’s important to the government and our legislators that men can get it up. I mean, you can get Viagra on welfare!!!
But women, who are left with the results of that ‘getting it up’, have no recourse.
Deal with it.
The unspoken message here is that birth control is STILL a woman’s responsibility, for, of course, men are SUPPOSED to spread their seed and forgo the consequences.
Deal with it.
This new kink in the healthcare reform bill is being pushed by the same Washington DC “Family” at C street, the same place Mark Foley (and other men of questionable morals, as it has been revealed) lived: he sexually harassed the pages, left in disgrace - and now we know that being a GAY legislator is more acceptable and more tolerated by republicans than being a women needing reproductive services.
And, is this not a separation of church and state issue, when the religious right feels they have the higher ground to perpetrate this disgusting and backwards healthcare bill on the statement they are doing “Gods work?”
In addition, what will we do with all these unwanted children?
Who will take care of them?
The states?
The church?
I remember in the early days, I walked women into clinics through throngs of shouting - MEN - protesting abortions, holding signs of abortion waste, doing their best to guilt women into keeping these pregnancies.
I remember MEN promising these women that GOD will take care of these children, that they will help…(for a couple of months…and then you’re on your own, baby.)
I remember making a mistake and needing an abortion.
I remember my RELIEF after having it, albeit a painful procedure, and being thankful that I could have one; even though I had to drive 2 hours one way to get it.
WHY do our legislators want to keep women cuckolded this way?
Every seed is NOT sacred.
It’s narcissistic to think so.
Tom McClasky of the Family Life Council, stated that he was “uncomfortable with the social engineering” of the health care reform bill.
I submit that social engineering occurs when a part of our society is not allowed to determine their own destiny, but instead are burdened by the same society that perceives them as less than their counterparts, and creates legislation to that end.
They’re setting the women’s equality back 40 years.
Yeah, we’ve come a long way, baby. A long, circular way.