Hi! I have opinions!
Nov. 14th, 2007 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nonethefewerOh boy. Oh boy oh boy.
The Colorado Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for an anti-abortion group to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person.
All I can think of to say here is that while I realise that there could be some nonvocal majority of pro-lifers who aren't inherently hateful of women, I haven't seen them. And I don't mean "Abortion is sad, and I'd prefer that they don't happen" - I think that, and personally, I'm all for better sex education. No, I mean the folk who really think abortion - hell, even miscarriages - should be illegal.
Pro-lifers hate women. I have not yet seen evidence that this isn't the case.
If approved by voters, the measure would give fertilized eggs the state constitutional protections of inalienable rights, justice and due process.
- What exactly does this mean? I want examples - how would this new law affect fertilised eggs? What sorts of rights? Let's go, people.
- Should... should someone remind them about the facts of life, perhaps? And how menstruation is not just aboutfilthy hoors unfertilised eggs? Fertilised eggs that fail to implant also come out, you know. What do they suggest? What are their plans of action?
- Someone elsewhere brought up an interesting note: Come, let us consider the 14th Amendment, section 1, first sentence - "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Fertilised eggs aren't born yet. So what happens then? Are they immigrants until they're born? Will the mothers have to get special pre-birth visas for their unborn babies?
In conclusion:
"How much time in jail should a woman face for abortion?"
The Colorado Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for an anti-abortion group to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person.
All I can think of to say here is that while I realise that there could be some nonvocal majority of pro-lifers who aren't inherently hateful of women, I haven't seen them. And I don't mean "Abortion is sad, and I'd prefer that they don't happen" - I think that, and personally, I'm all for better sex education. No, I mean the folk who really think abortion - hell, even miscarriages - should be illegal.
Pro-lifers hate women. I have not yet seen evidence that this isn't the case.
If approved by voters, the measure would give fertilized eggs the state constitutional protections of inalienable rights, justice and due process.
- What exactly does this mean? I want examples - how would this new law affect fertilised eggs? What sorts of rights? Let's go, people.
- Should... should someone remind them about the facts of life, perhaps? And how menstruation is not just about
- Someone elsewhere brought up an interesting note: Come, let us consider the 14th Amendment, section 1, first sentence - "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Fertilised eggs aren't born yet. So what happens then? Are they immigrants until they're born? Will the mothers have to get special pre-birth visas for their unborn babies?
In conclusion:
"How much time in jail should a woman face for abortion?"
