"Oh, snap!"

Via Feministe, Jill asks: "How much time in jail should a woman face for abortion?"

"If women are so infantile that our bad acts toward fetuses must be punished with counseling or left to God, does that apply when our bad acts are directed at born people? If I kill my next-door neighbor, can I simply say that because of my tiny lady-brain and tinier lady-morals, I just didn’t know any better? Can I get counseling or some smiting instead of jail time?"

The questions go on from there, naturally:

"If life starts at conception, and from the moment of fertilization an egg is a full-fledged human being with the same rights as you or I, what do we do about calculating the death rate? The miscarriage rate? What do we do about all those embryos in fertility clinics? Do we force women to implant them and carry them to term?"

"What about pregnant women engaging in behaviors that are risky for the fetus? Can she be prosecuted for child abuse or negligence if she, say, drinks coffee while she’s pregnant? If she eats tuna? If she smokes? What about if she goes skiing? What if she didn’t know she was pregnant, but should have known, and she does something risky — like goes binge drinking every night and survives off of Cheetos? Willful blindness? Neglect? What if she miscarries, and perhaps you can attribute it to something she did — negligent homicide?"

This is the happy stuff I love to wake up to.

I am so in hearts with Jill.

Jill at Feministe asks: "How much time in jail should a woman face for abortion?"

So far, at 51 comments, one pro-lifer has tried to respond (at comment 18): "For example, couldn't a state pass a law prohibiting physicians (or anyone else) from providing a woman with abortion and then provide punish (loss of license, fine, or jail time) to the individual providing the abortion and not make the woman a criminal at all."

The immediate analogy that a bunch of people draw: Great, so I can go hire a hitman to kill someone, and I don't have to worry about being thrown in jail.  Y/N?

Ahahaha, beautiful.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

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Oh right, LJ.  Random things time.

- My goodness, my "piercing" is doing amazingly well.  It did not love the H2Ocean stuff - kept getting red and annoyed - so I grudgingly picked up some antibacterial soap (I don't usually let that crap in the house) and washed my ear, and now I've just been doing it rrroughly once a week.  (Or rather, when I remember to bring the dispenser with me into the shower.  Same diff.)  No redness, no soreness, no cruft, woo!

- I took the 53-question personality test, and compared to Jan '06, I'm slightly more E, balanced in N/S, slightly more F, and somewhat more P.  Shock.  Once I get past the idea that more F == more bad, maybe that'll change moar.

- The part where TextPad allows me to open multiple docs in one app is dangerous.  A week later, I have three apps open with like 12 docs each, and I have no idea.  I need to start commenting my... uh... random note docs.  Yes.

- Dunno.