Get Your Hands Off My Uterus!!!

You know, I really don’t understand the whole abortion rights issue. Yes, I’m aware that I’m insensitive, closed-minded, stupid, and quite possibly a Bible-thumper because of this, but I honestly don’t understand why some women get so insanely infuriated over this.

What prompted my pondering of this was the fact that I heard a few tidbits of “speeches” that were given at yesterday’s Pro-Choice rally/march/whatever-you-want-to-call-it (which was actually more of a rally for anyone who hates Bush in order to make their numbers appear to be larger).

One woman was yelling about how conservatives DO want small government. In fact, she said, they want government so small that it will fit in “your” uterus (not quite sure how to take that, or if I should get grossed out over it).

Another woman was a little beyond the yelling stage. She was screaming at the top of her lungs, “Get your hands off of my uterus!!!” The hate and rage in her voice made her sound more like someone who was confronting a priest who raped her rather than someone who is simply a Pro-Choice activist.

Anyhow, the main thing that I caught, and found rather strange, was how they kept referring to the issue as “reproductive health.”

First, I think that’s just a politically correct way of saying something in order to make people feel better about it. It’s like calling a garbage man a “sanitation engineer” or a cashier a “sales associate.” Calling abortion “reproductive health” is simply an attempt to distance the term as far as possible with anything that could make it be seen as murder, like the Pro-Lifer’s call it.

Second, and this is what I found rather amusing, is that the term “reproductive health” is something given to a procedure intended to stop the reproductive process. The whole point of having an abortion is to keep a woman from reproducing and stopping the reproductive process once it’s started.

So yeah, I was mildly amused by the highlights that I caught from their little march yesterday, and I’m just as convinced as ever that marches like that really do nothing to change people’s minds or change any public policy.

Just as a side-note here, let me beat anyone to the punch who wants to start sticking me with the people who bomb abortion clinics. Just because I don’t understand why some women are so pissed off about this doesn’t make me a Pro-Lifer, because I’m not. Nor am I Pro-Choice. To be honest, I really don’t care either way. It doesn’t affect me, so I honestly don’t care if it’s legal or outlawed.

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“You spoonfed us Saturday morning mouthfuls of maggots
and lies, disguised in your sugary breakfast cereals.
These plates you made us clean were filled with your fears.
These things have hardened in our soft, pink bellies.
We are what you have made us.
We have grown up watching your television.
We are a symptom of your Christian America,
the biggest Satan of all.
This is your world in which we grow.
And we will grow to hate you.”
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Marilyn Manson