The pond thought for a moment about whether it should bother with the Oreo today … it's hard to make light of abortion … though some do try …
But then the Oreo began with an outright lie ...
But then the Oreo began with an outright lie ...
Abortion is a form of liberation?
The pond isn't aware of anyone who thinks of the painful choice of having an abortion as a form of liberation.
Would anyone who has had a remotely close contact with anyone who is thinking about, or has had an abortion, couch it in that light?
Would anyone who has had a remotely close contact with anyone who is thinking about, or has had an abortion, couch it in that light?
It's difficult, but then it's also difficult to have a child, have it snatched away by the Catholic church, return home in shame and guilt, only to have the child return to remind you of the choice you made some sixty years before …
The pond has been close to a number of people who have walked down sundry paths - it tended to happen in a town like Tamworth, where, in the old days, ignorance of matters sexual was cultivated like a field of thistles or Paterson's curse …
It's why, instead of the usual bemused tolerance that the pond extends to the likes of the Oreo, this day it takes on a form of angry contempt …
Who is this woman blathering on about allegedly fair-minded folk ignoring inconvenient truths about abortion?
Has she ever had a liberating abortion? Does she know anyone who has experienced undiluted liberation, as opposed to the sort of mixed emotions which go with the human condition?
It is of course up to women to make their own decisions and their own choices, and the last thing they need is this sort of hectoring, prattish carry-on by a self-congratulatory delusional …
What's the bet the Catholics will be cited? You know, that bunch of men sworn never again to have a fuck with a woman … but instead to spend their lives fucking with Christ ...
She's quoting Donald Trump? The man with three wives whose personal lawyer Michael Cohen got involved in paying out $1.6 million to facilitate and keep quite an abortion for a Playboy model?
There's much more, and active links at the Graudian here, but don't get the pond started on the deep hypocrisy of the Donald and Republicans, or we could be Broidying away the day ...
NY Times here ...
About the only thing that could get the pond more agitated is if the Oreo dragged in a reference to the Nazis ...
Oh she did, she did go the Nazi route …
Well the pond isn't going to go there, and isn't even going to wish an unwanted pregnancy on the Oreo so that she might experience the realities of lives lived …
Instead, the pond would like to end on a lighter note …because hypocrisy at least provides a goodly source of hugely humour …
Oreo: "The question of how to balance women's rights with the rights of the child..."
ReplyDeleteSeems like the Oreo thinks foetus=child - hence her concentration on when the foetus "feels pain". But the missing point here is obvious: the role and the importance of "society's rights". Does "society" in fact have any rights here ? Even just to permit or prohibit abortions and under what conditions ? If the woman, and potentially her partner if she has one, does not want to incur the life-long pain and trouble of providing for a 'disabled' person - which is quite likely to need to be continued after her (and partner's) death - can this be transferred to 'society" right from birth onwards ? Is this a fair price to put onto "society" for its claim to determine the right, or otherwise, to legal abortion ?
DP: "What's the bet the Catholics will be cited? You know, that bunch of men sworn never again to have a fuck with a woman … but instead to spend their lives fucking with Christ ..."
Ah yes, DP, and those Catholics who established and operated the church run "home for unmarried mothers" in Tuam, Ireland where up to 800 children ranging from newborns to 3yos were abused to death and then dumped in a septic tank. So now we know what the real morality of the Catholic Church is: 'illegitimacy' is a crime that justifies the death penalty.
[ See, for instance: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/ireland-dead-babies-found-in-sewer-may-prompt-inquiry-widening/8330504 ]
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDelete“Evidence that late-term abortion’s are being used to selectively target foetuses with disabilities has outraged US Republican politicians.”
The same Republicans who want to slash the healthcare, education and welfare programs that profoundly disabled children and adults will need for the rest of their lives.
Same old story - every life is sacred until your born, then you had better hope that you end up “a total superstar” otherwise don’t expect the state to be there to help you out.
DiddyWrote
Jeremy Bentham on the suffering of non-human animals: "the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?... The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes..." So the Oreo has become vegetarian?
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