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Mish ([identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] hsapiens 2006-02-21 08:06 pm (UTC)

Don't worry. I am still pro-choice.

Actually, I'm willing to accept that people of good conscience can disagree on this topic. I'm virulently pro-choice but I can respect someone who isn't, so long as it's a thought-out and logical viewpoint rather than about punishing women for having sex. I won't ever agree with her/him, but I can respect her/him. (I want a gender-neutral 3rd person singular pronoun, damnit.)

What upsets me the most is the confirmation process. We knew he was likely to be anti-choice but somehow the process has come to nominees disingenuously declaring that they've never so much as considered a landmark, touch-stone legal decision that's still being argued 30-odd years later. That's true for both sides of the debate. I just don't see how a confirmation process can have any meaning if none is exchanged during questioning.

I really do believe that the time has come for those who want to safeguard a right to unfettered medical care - as well as things like privacy of one's phone and e-mail conversations and whom one wishes to marry - to push for an amendment stating it. Not that I for a minute believe the right to privacy isn't implicit in the 4th and 9th amendments but it seems that "strict constructionism" means "it has to say it in precisely those words if I don't personally agree with the issue."

how sad and serious an affair abortion really is

Any unwanted pregnancy, however it happens, signals a failure to me. Be that education, instilling self-respect, crime prevention, putting someone innocent in jail for rape and leaving a rapist on the street, WHATEVER the reason...it seems to me that an unwanted pregnancy is the end result of a number of other failures.

I've always bought Franklin's(?) maxim: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I agree that the place to attack this problem, if one is serious, is at the source rather than the end.

My hope is that there is a big backlash to all this.

I have given up hope for any such thing. The Repugs have made no secret that this was their agenda and the people continue to vote for them. I'm used to feeling as if I come from another planet when it comes to politics.

No, I suspect the first time many judgmental people will feel the bite will be someone they know and love dies from a botched abortion. And they didn't even know she was pregnant or in trouble.

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