Deal With the Devil

This is what I have in mind...

I think it would be appropriate and beneficial to the welfare of the country, if Democrats and Republicans can forge an agreement regarding the upcoming 2012 Presidential election.

If Mitt Romney wins, Democrats have to agree not to go berserk that a rich, white Mormon  born in Michigan is the president. They further agree not to say they hope Romney fails like Rush Limbaugh did after Obama was elected. They must also take a vow not to oppose everything Romney does regardless of whether they're in favor of it or not.

If Obama wins, Republicans must let him do his job, fill presidential appointments (like naming the new postmaster of Irving, North Dakota without blocking it), and let bills pass in the Senate with a simple majority instead of filibustering every piece of legislation that comes before them. The also have to shut up about Obama being an anti-American socialist Muslim from Kenya.

Blunt Talk About Abortion

BLUNT TALK ABOUT ABORTION

        No sane person views abortion as just another birth control method.

No sane person wants to go through an abortion.

Proponents of pro-choice do not glorify abortion any more than proponents of pro-life glorify genocide.

So other than an adherence to fanatical, religious-based, self-righteous opinion, why would any proponent of pro-life feel it necessary to dictate to another human being what they can and cannot do with their own bodies? What business is it of theirs? Who, specifically, gave them the right to tell other people how to live? Who gave them the right to judge other people?

Well…  Just ask them and they’ll tell you:  it was gentle Jesus, meek and mild. He gave them those rights. Him and his book…

Anthropomorphism can only go so far. Sure, you can attribute human qualities to the character of Jesus in the New Testament—scriptures claim He was both God and man; however, the qualities and characteristics the rabid interventionists of the pro-life crowd attribute to Jesus are no more biblically valid than is the Mars Rover. Jesus never spoke a word about abortion nor did He ever speak a word about the moment life begins or of the much-touted pro-life credo of the “sanctity of life.”

Abortion isn’t mentioned in the Bible because the ignorant desert-wandering tribes it was written for had no conception of the female reproductive system and would have no more idea of how to perform an abortion than a Neanderthal would have of how to fly a Boeing 757.

And nowhere in scripture is it written, “By the way, if we forgot to mention it, just go ahead and make something up.”

Because that’s exactly what they’re doing when they climb their pedestals of arrogance and attempt to force everyone to abide by what they imagine to be “God’s will.” They’re making it up. But they’re also sinning. They’re blaspheming. Oh, they don’t realize it because in their narrow, concentrated hatred of anything smacking of personal freedom, they believe they’re striking a blow for “decency,” but what they’re actually doing is blaspheming.

You’d go to hell for that. 

You see, they’re claiming to know the mind of God. They’re dictating to others on His behalf. They’re taking the name of God in vain. That’s blasphemy, regardless of the motives behind it and if abortion is a black and white issue without a shade of gray, then so is blasphemy.

Pro-lifers are obsessed with fetuses, but not so much with people. From the moment a zygote is formed by the fertilization of an egg, pro-lifers are all about the fetus and the sanctity of life. Once the fetus emerges and becomes a child, these same pro-lifers lose interest quickly. Before it was a human, they were fixated with protecting it; but the minute it sucks in its first breath, they’re finished.

Neo-natal care? You’re on your own, kid. Now that we can see you, you’re not that cute after all.

Tax dollars for WIC? Nope.  That’s socialism and welfare. Women, infants, and children—you’re on your own.

Crack baby? Piss off—your mother’s a whore.

Day care? Head Start? Look…we’re like the airlines, okay? We got you here safely. That’s all you get.

 But come see us again when you’re 18 and can join the military. Then we’ll sing the Star Spangled Banner and beat our chests about how wonderful our young men and women in uniform are, but between the ages of birth to the age of 18, you can go fuck yourselves.

For people who pride themselves on being compassionate, you don’t see a lot of it in pro-lifers, at least not any genuine compassion. You do see a lot of hatred, sanctimony, and pomposity, but no genuine compassion. You also see that sense of moral superiority all phony Christians display along with their well-rehearsed “camouflaged look of disdain.” It wouldn’t be Christian to openly show disdain, so they work on acting as if they’re trying so hard not to be judgmental…hiding it just enough so you can still see it, but you just know they’re stifling it as best they can to save your miserable, heathen feelings. Watching one of these performances is mesmerizing.

They do not want anyone having an abortion for any reason.

And again, no sane person would use abortion as a method of birth control. It’s too expensive, it’s too time-consuming, and it’s too risky. It’s a medical procedure. Using abortion as a method of birth control would be like being catheterized because it’s more convenient than walking to the bathroom.

But picture these scenarios: 

A couple who were overjoyed a few weeks ago when the home pregnancy test showed positive rush to the hospital, the wife cramping and in obvious agony. An ultrasound shows the fetus is implanted in one of her fallopian tubes—not in her uterus where it should be. The wife is in very real danger. But rather than terminate the pregnancy immediately, the doctor puts the wife in a room, dopes her up, and lets her wait out the pain, watching for either the fetus’s heart to stop beating or for the wife’s fallopian tube to rupture.

*A girl arrives in the emergency room in lower abdominal agony and with heavy bleeding. An intern determines that she is having a miscarriage. Instead of treating her, the intern calls for a gynecologist who forces the young woman to submit to an examination whether she wants one or not to determine whether the miscarriage is a common, natural event or whether it’s a crime scene.

*During divorce hearings, a man described as a “one-man-cult” who claimed all his actions, which included taking two of his daughters as brides were “guided by God” is arrested when his sobbing, battered, and bruised 13 and 15-year-old-daughters testify that he raped them both while their mother was visiting a sick relative three months prior to the trial hearing. Charges against the man include incest, assault, forcible confinement, corrupting the morals of children, and rape. Both girls are pregnant.

*An attractive, 40ish, vehemently pro-life mother of three, whose husband works for the city planning commission, is leaving the Bell Hill Baptist Church late one evening after volunteering to assist the church secretary by stuffing envelopes announcing the annual bake sale. As she reaches her car and fumbles for her keys, a mentally disabled, syphilitic, homeless man appears out of nowhere, grabs her around the throat, forces her to the ground, shoves a filthy rag into her mouth, tears off her skirt, and violently rapes her.

*An older couple, their two children grown, educated, and married with families of their own, are making love one evening and the condom breaks. They hope for the best, but the woman misses her next period. A positive pregnancy test results in a follow-up gynecologist visit and the woman is pregnant. Subsequent tests indicate the likelihood of the child having severe Down’s Syndrome is extremely high.  

What did these people do wrong? What exactly is it that would bring the pro-life cause screaming down on their heads demanding that they let nature take its course? An ectopic pregnancy, a natural miscarriage in progress, incest, rape, and an accidental, unwanted pregnancy…

And the pro-lifers say, “Nope. Have the kid. We don’t care if you die or suffer. We don’t care if it’s your own father’s child. We don’t care that you’ll remember that rape each time you look at the baby. We don’t care if your condom broke and you’re bringing a child you can’t afford or can’t care for into the world.  We just don’t care.  We cared before they were born. We cared so much before they were born that we’d do anything to force you to have that kid. But we don’t care now.”

Where is the logic in this line of thought? Where is the logic in demanding that other people—not you, but other people—do what you want them to do because you believe God is anti-abortion? Medical estimates are that 30% to 50% of the pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage. Among abortionists, God appears quite prolific.

The entire right-to-life movement is a farce. A ploy. A smoke-and-mirrors parlor trick. These people aren’t pro-life, they’re anti-woman. Even the women who are pro-life are anti-woman. Their express purpose in championing this sick, twisted, backward philosophy is to “keep women in their place.”

The pro-life men in this country are scared to death by any woman who has the audacity to believe she’s her own woman in control of her own destiny and her own body. These men like the fact that their Bible has put them in charge. Even the wimpiest little Casper Milquetoast in the country can walk into church and hear God command, “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent!” and brother, do they ever love that.

Pro-life women are also scared to death by any woman who has the audacity to believe she controls her own body—and they also want women under the control of men. By women, they mean other women.  The ones who aren’t them.

The bottom line, the ultimate bottom line of this entire debate, once it is stripped of all the false trappings used to attempt to make it appear legitimate, is this: If men could get pregnant, an abortion would be easier to get than a pack of cigarettes.