What next? Tampax Funerals?
There is an attempt underway in several states to undermine Roe vs. Wade by amending constitutions to grant human status--"personhood"-- to embryos.
Before I start my rant, I acknowledge that many nice and honorable people think abortion should be illegal in America. I disagree with these people and, from recent polls, a clear majority of Americans do too. So, the following is not meant as a personal attack on any folks holding the minority view...just certain religious crazies.
From the Los Angeles Times: DENVER -- Antiabortion activists in several states are promoting constitutional amendments that would define life as beginning at conception, which could effectively outlaw all abortions and some birth control methods.
The campaigns to grant "personhood" to fertilized eggs, giving them the same legal protections as human beings, come as the nation in January marks the 35th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. [..]"
Before or after it attaches to the uterus? And how will we know when?
How will we know the true birthday? Will all our birthdays be updated?
When will we give these little jelly blobs social security numbers? Make them tax deductions?
Gosh, pity the poor census takers.....
We'll need additional law enforcement to investigate every miscarriage. I read that half of all pregnancies end of their own accord ...we'll need extra cops to sort that out.
BTW--how do these crazies explain "god" making it possible for a woman's body to abort naturally... out of innate knowledge of physical abnormalities, etc.?
Will the state want to send used tampons and feminine pads off to labs for inspections just to make sure no little person was imbedded? If they find one, will they want to give it a name, conception date and death certificate...and a decent burial?
Seriously. if these "forced pregnancy" crazies really feel that life begins at conception, then why is the early miscarried "child" not treated as a human? There is no burial, no funeral, and since there is no baptism, no admittance into heaven. A medical worker told me the remains are burned in the hospital furnace.
If a fertilized egg is a person with all Constitutional rights, wouldn't that mean a pregnant woman would have her diet and drinking habits monitored by the state, in order to protect the little clump of cells... I mean, PERSON, within her?
Every woman is born with millions of follicles that can turn into eggs. Wouldn't 'pre-eggs' be considered 'life' too if they all have an equal capacity to turn into eggs and then embryos?
Why stop at eggs? Aren't sperm people too? Every love making session would bring a holocaust....
How long before these crazies try to outlaw contraception ...because, after all, doesn't contraception prevent a "potential" human from realization? It would mean no more IUDs, because IUDs make the uterus inhospitable to fertilized eggs.
And if this becomes law, does it mean that if a woman has an ectopic pregnancy, she must die because her fertilized egg, which implanted in her fallopian tube, has a "right to life"... even if it kills both of them in the process?
Well...I guess the poor crazies have to come up with some cause to froth over... they don't have Terry Shiavo to protect from gay flag burners anymore.
