Crying Rape
It's not pretty when it happens
Crying Rape
It really is amazing the length to which some people (spelled “w-o-m-e-n”) will go to when they want to make a point.
We saw that a few weeks ago when Planned Parenthood threw its hissyfit about (temporarily) losing funding from the Susan J. Komen foundation and blamed it on right-wing politics.
We saw it a short time later when reproductive-rights advocates (that should cover the pro-abortion, pro-contraception, anti-celibacy triumvirate) attacked the Catholic Church for asserting its First Amendment rights in refusing to subsidize birth control for its employees.
And we saw it last week in Virginia, when the ladies and their commiserating gents rose up in anger at the prospect of a law which required pre-abortion ultrasounds. Only they didn’t talk about “pre abortion ultrasounds.” They used a word that puts an end to every debate, every discussion, every good faith attempt to arrive at some legitimate common ground.
Yes, the women who were so angry that the State of Virginia would force them to undergo a procedure which may or may not have been medically necessary but which violated their right to erect a no-trespass zone around the uterus made sure to redefine it as ‘rape’ because the proposed act would be conducted against the woman’s will.
I understand that reasonable minds disagree on whether a woman should be forced to undergo an ultrasound before obtaining an abortion. I happen to think that a state is fully justified in forcing a mother to face the reality of what she is doing and acknowledge that the thing in her body is not simply a mass of indistinguishable, fungible cells but, rather, incipient humanity. Yes, she probably already knows what it is. But given the choice between annoying the woman, and the possibility that a life might be saved, I'd err on the side of life.
Clearly, not everyone agrees with me.
But what I don’t like is the hyperbole employed by reproductive-rights activists who think that shock tactics are fine as long as they come from their side of the fence. God forbid Rick Santorum should give a dignified funeral to his son Gabriel, who died only two hours after being born to loving parents. That’s sick and scary.
But calling legislators rapists because we disagree with them? That’s perfectly normal.
- Project much, Plumber? You fell off your soap box and landed on your prodigious posterior.
— sophistry 
Comment removed.- Hamblin, I have done better than your suggestion. I have spoken over the years with many women, and with people in the medical profession, particularly those in the OR. My statement represents what they have come to understand.
Even you are capable of understanding hyperbole vs reality.— PlumberJoe - Comment removed.
- Not sure what the OR has to do with abortions, PJ. Don't mix apples and oranges. Don't act like you know what you're talking about because you "talked to some doctors." That has nothing to do with this issue, and you know it.— sophistry
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- Hamblin, there is no fawning over your immaturity here. Learn to argue with intelligent statements. Save your name calling and talking points for you personal audience. Use facts. Avoid universal condemnation, such as- all liberals show that a lobotomy is irreversible. In a word, impress us with you intelligence that you keep so well hidden beneath your non sequitur.— PlumberJoe
- Stop trying to distract readers from your own glaring stupidity, Plumber. I guess maybe everyone really DOES need to go to college.— sophistry
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- "Someone's meds are wearing off."
Hamblin, try a little harder, next time.— PlumberJoe - Hamblin and sophy, you cannot deny that abortion is traumatic. Or can you??? Perhaps I give you credit where none is due.
A woman's body is not solely her own to do with as she chooses. Once pregnant, there is a new life that she is responsible for. She can end that life before term. She can be a mother until her child is ready to leave the nest, or kick him out at age, nominally 18. But to simply zap that life while still inside her "belly" is more than a flip of the coin or an OH SH?T, look what has happened.
Try to understand the complexities of life.— PlumberJoe - Of course abortion is traumatic. You, as a man who has nothing to do with the issue, have no right to try to make it MORE traumatic. It may be traumatic, but sometimes it is necessary. What if the man who knocked up the poor woman will not help her? What if she was raped? You are also ignoring the fact that a fetus smaller than a peanut, literally, has no consciousness. It is without language, without literacy and is far below the age of majority, The woman whose uterus is unwittingly housing that blob of tissue can have it vacuumed out if she wishes. That is her right to be self determining.— sophistry
- Ultimately, lest you forget, Plumber and CF (No Facts), the entire abortion issue is about PRIVACY. It is none of you g-d business what other women do. If you don't like abortion, then don't have one (works for me) and don't torture and abuse the women who feel the operation is essential for them.— sophistry
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- Exactly. A man can never know. It might be nice if a man tried to wrap his brain around this very complicated issue, but the bottom line is that it is not a man's body; it is not his decision. — sophistry
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