Protecting the Right to Choose

January 22 marks the 35 anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortions in the United States. This is something to be celebrated and protected especially with the skyrocketing number of pro-life(ie anti-abortion) whacktivists just dying to yank away a woman’s right to choose. Frighteningly, pro-life members easily stand to outnumber those who are pro-choice for the simple fact that pro-life populate more rapidly because they give birth to EVERY baby they conceive unless the baby is miscarried or dies at birth while pro-choice proponents actually think and consider whether or not they should bring another child into the world.

What literally makes me quiver though is this movement of conservative evangelical Christians known as Quiverfull. Members believe it’s their duty to fak like rabbits or whichever animal faks the most and churn out as many babies as the woman’s body is capable of popping out in order to populate God’s army. WHAT THE FAK is that about we ask? Women participants are literally mass production baby factories spitting out a new ‘soldier’ yearly if ‘God blesses her with another pregnancy.’ Bad enough if these hell-bent nuts had babies at the average national rate but they’re on a mission to fak their way towards the majority share of the population and if they succeed those of us with our heads screwed on straight will be screwed because they will make sure no one has the right to abort as much as a baseball game for rain.

In a 2006 article in The Nation, one Quiverfull mother had 14 kids by the ripe old age of 39. Now there is an overachiever, and surely she’ll gladly shoot a few more out the ole birthing canal should she be so blessed before menopause thankfully steps in to stop the fakin madness. Thank you Mother Nature at least for that much intervention! These warped puppies definitely a cause for concern given their ability to outnumber those of us able to exercise some responsible discretion when it comes to the trivial matter of procreation because we’ve both feet firmly planted on the ground. However, in the nutty kingdom of ‘God’s army’ feet not on the ground but permanently in the air with all the faking, grunting, and birthing going on. then again, we can'

While these an extreme example, the growth of the pro-life movement – especially via this type of extremist behavior and their ultimate mission to do whatever it takes to get their point across – does pose a serious threat to the current status of legalized abortions. Those dead-set against abortion to the point of pro-life whacktivism shove their noses wherever they can trying to change what is right now still a choice. Whether through peaceful, yet still annoyingly intrusive methods of protest or through more violent means taken by anti-abortion terrorist organizations, such as the Army of God, that engages in very Christian activities such as bombing abortion clinics, there is a very serious threat to a woman’s right to choose whether or not she’s having the baby she’s conceived. Just because we can choose today does not mean we can sit back and think it’s safe to assume we can choose tomorrow or next year. Like all other rights in the U.S. we can’t assume they’re safe but rather must take on a protective stand before this pro-life surge manages to get its way and have abortion outlawed via the permeation of government with like-minded religious individuals who seem to have forgotten separation of church and state means you leave your religious beliefs at the door when you occupy a public office.

Already we’re seeing a strong lean to the right with conservatives very much pushing the anti-abortion method. An article in the Huffington Post exposed funding of $6 million in federal grants awarded to pregnancy clinics that promote misinformation on abortions in a way to scare women away from them. Some clinics list such nonsense as ‘fear of punishment from God’ as a possible risk of abortion as if there’s medical proof to back such a crazy statement yet the federal government funds such clinics to promote what must be an agreeable message in this administration’s eyes. The funding funneled to these clinics is disproportionate to the number of patients received but it's obvious why they receive such large sums of money: these particular clinics are singing the song with lyrics written by the Christian right government. I’m sorry to say but it’s no oversight or misunderstanding. Some of the clinics outwardly label themselves as ‘faith-based’ while others do not admit it but the truth is in the pudding as it’s said or within the BS they’re peddling on their information pages or in this case misinformation pages. The US government is standing behind them with millions of dollars in funding so go ahead and tell me anti-abortion is not the position of this government sneaking money to clinics that promote the message it wants broadcast as the ‘right way to live.’ This another example of religious interference in what is constitutionally deemed a secular society and yet another example of how this administration is in serious violation of the US Constitution. Make this example number, I’ve lost fakin count already.

I do not understand why these pro-life whacktivists – government officials included - believe they have any business in my or any other woman’s womb when I didn’t invite them in or ask for their thoughts on whether or not I plan or want to become a parent. Again, we have a group of people – mostly with a very religious core – attempting to force their ways on everyone else. I do not insist that those I do not deem fit parental material to have abortions or be sterilized. I realize I don’t have the right to impose my dream world on others. I strongly believe some people have no business having kids – like Britney Spears for instance – but if she wants to have children, that is her right. I feel sorry for her kids or kids birthed into family situations such as hers but that is her right. If the trailer trash hillbilly mother wants to pop out every illegitimate child she’s impregnated with because she can’t keep her legs together or master the concept of birth control, well as much as we don’t need more stupid rednecks in the world, it’s not my business to hold her down and force an abortion on her even if I think this is the proper course of action. I actually believe it’d be nice if people needed to prove the ability to responsibly raise a child before their bodies would grant them the ability to make one but that’s beyond my reach, and all I can do is hope for the best for those kids that come into the world with 2 faked up parents and not much more hope than the overused vagina they crawled from after 9 months in captivity.

See this is what we’re really against here: people attempting to force their ways on others. We’re not religious. That is obvious but we do not believe we have the right to make people stop believing in a god or force or whatever they pray to if that is what they want to do. Feel free to go to church if that is your thing. BUT please don’t tell us we’re going to hell because we do not and do not hold your beliefs. Don’t go around killing in the name of some being because others do not share your beliefs. That is what faks us off because forcing your beliefs/ways on others is fakin dead wrong as far as we’re concerned. Our position on abortion is the same.

We are pro-choice with choice being the operative word. This is a democratic society for a reason. It is not an ultimatum but a CHOICE to do as you please depending on your situation, beliefs, and whatever else may enter into the DECISION which is ONLY yours/your partner’s to make. It is no one else’s business, and in the end, the mother and/or father(if he is around) must do what feels right for them. If you’re like us and not religious, the decision is based on personal factors that only the 2 people involved can sort such as: can we afford this baby, do we want this baby, how will we care for this baby? This just a sampling of potential questions for discussion before mom even starts to show she’s carrying a baby. These important questions to consider regardless of your beliefs because they’re realistic questions to ask when in the position of bringing another life into the world.

There are choices. If you’re very religious or not even religious but simply feel abortion is wrong, then guess what? No one is forcing you to abort your baby. Isn’t that a fantastic thing? Don’t people who feel differently deserve the same choice? Something as important as another life shouldn’t be forced upon or ripped from anyone. No one should ever be forced to have or give up a baby against her will. This decision to choose what is best for you must remain a RIGHT in this country and not dictated by these lunatics who think they know better than the parents who’ll have and raise the child.

Where the fak will the baby pushers be if the parents are unfit and abuse or neglect the child? Will they swoop in like guardian angels and provide for that baby if the birth parents don’t want to and just had the kid because abortion became illegal in America? What if the parents can’t afford to have the baby? Will God provide? Will that be the argument because all of my friends with kids claim there is no option to put the baby’s tab on the God account when you need diapers or medical attention even if you believe in God. Believer or non-believer, if you cannot provide for your child, that’s a serious question and how is it better to bring that child into the world and completely fak them up right at birth because you’re a fak-up with no business parenting a goldfish yet you couldn’t have an abortion because the pro-life whacktivists got their way making abortion illegal again.

This is something for which we say: WHAT THE FAK because we don’t understand the logic behind these anti-abortion faks who think they have the right to tell a woman/couple what she/they are to do with a baby conceived. I love the assortment of bumper stickers I see on a daily basis which clearly indicates the driver is a pro-life whacktivist who also proudly sports one of our favorites: the Jesus fish or some other religious nonsense. Some include: “it’s a child, not a choice;” “have you hugged your choice today;” “choice = a mother’s right to kill her child;” and “abortion linked to breast cancer.” Ah yes, there’s a great example of the misinformation peddled by the pro-life movement to scare women away from having an abortion! Is that a choice? Abortion or breast cancer? That sounds like a choice to me. What the FAK is that?

WTF has a few suggestions for some pro-choice stickers:

"Abortion kills – so does religion: Are we even yet?”

“If you’re stupid and you're pregnant, abortion's your only shot at smart this lifetime. Don't you want to be smart just once?”

We simply don’t understand this hypocrisy either. Could someone please explain to me how killing babies in the womb is not ok but killing babies/children/adults in wars is ok because most of the pro-life population supports these wars and their religiwhack poster president W. Ok to kill in the name of illegal, unjustified war but let’s just not kill a fetus because THAT would be wrong and against God’s plan. Does God’s plan say: Go forth and bomb the shit out of wherever you choose but those deaths don’t count? Isn’t a death a death? What about the nutties that bomb abortion clinics and kill people other than the doctors they target as evil sinners who kill babies? Killing the doctors is wrong but justified in their warped minds; however, what about the people who die just because they happen to be in the wrong place at the time the bomb goes off – people like the UPS guy dropping off some packages or a kid riding a bicycle on the bordering sidewalk? Were they responsible for the abortions performed within? Isn’t that innocent life lost? Oh wait, the whacks call that collateral damage because God told them to stop abortion at any cost. Ok to kill others as long as you save some babies?

I recently watched this HBO documentary ‘Soldiers in the Army of God’ which examines the movement of the aforementioned loonies – and what a movement it is. This film featured a slew of backwoods redneck types from places like rural Georgia or Tennessee and could’ve easily been misconstrued as the heehaw gang. One of the anti-abortion militia uses his sprawling country estate(ie rundown shack situated in big field in the middle of nowhere) to display huge signs featuring pictures of what an aborted baby looks like in his feeble attempt to turn people off from abortions. If you saw the film, you’d probably agree a more effective deterrent would be to post their own pictures as men you’d be obligated to fak if you had an abortion as punishment because the members featured in the film were most definitely the most repulsive group of men I’d ever seen collectively in one place. ‘Soldiers in the Army of God’ AKA the ‘Can’t Get Laid to Save Their Lives Even If They Were the Last Men on Earth Club.’ Let's put it this way: there is no amount of alcohol capable of giving any of them the slightest chance of a fak. Not the least bit surprising that these ugly faks are so gung-ho about taking away a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion because they’re not all that thrilled with the fact that women also have the right NOT to choose to fak them since NO woman in her right or half-cocked or completely drunken mind would let any of these human repellants within 100 feet of them. It’s as if they get some sort of rise out of shoving their noses into women’s wombs because they’re not welcome anywhere near their vaginas. The psychology makes complete sense. Women are free to choose and women don’t choose them therefore they desperately want to limit her rights to choose whether or not she has babies.

One of the group’s main members is a guy who talked about circumcising himself – while in prison mind you - after God told him to do so. Pray tell, am I to take life advice from this model citizen Mr. Self-Circumcision? Shall I seek medical advice from a heroin junkie too or ask a blind man if I look pretty today? I don’t intend any offense to the blind but cite it as a ludicrous example to illustrate the degree of lunacy behind the arguments of such a group.

It’s about as moronic to ask a blind person for their opinion on your appearance as it is to entrust such a life-altering decision to a bunch of nutjobs with such respectable credentials but we’re to listen to them and their opinions and pass laws based on it? I think not, and hopefully enough sane people in this country will agree and leave the laws as they are. As a woman who can make her own choices, I must say to those who think I cannot and insist upon ‘helping me’: FAK OFF!

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