This is NOT politics.

[love_katz]

18. Bang on, excellent points.

I will attempt to copy and paste so I can quote you directly, and include my commentary:

It's an invasion of your body. (It is your body, right?) It's also an assault on your autonomy and your privacy and your emotional wellbeing." Exactly...that is what they are aiming to do: assault our bodies, assault our privacy, and assault our emotional well-being. That is precisely what their aim.

Why don't those pols just come out and say getting knocked up makes you government property? You're no longer an adult--you're a pregnancy! Not that they give a damn about your baby or how it makes it to term. They just want you to pay, I suspect, for the shame you deserve for being a sexually active woman."

Again, exactly! That IS their aim: to make any pregnant or possibly pregnant woman (right wing fundy fanatic) government property. Notice that government interference is A-O.K. as long as it involves forcing other people to goose-step to their religious beliefs. It is ALL ABOUT COERCEION, not the (so-called) right-to-life vs. the right to choose. The entire issue has NOTHING to do with the (so-called) sanctity of life. The issue is that some people believe that they are religiously superior to everyone else, and therefore have the divine right to dictate to other people, even if we believe differently than they do.

"Not that they give a damn about your baby...", again, absolutely right! They only pretend to care about fetuses because they can use it as a bludgeon to control the lives, bodies, and destinies of women. The fetus is a pretext, nothing more.

And the truest line you wrote: "They just want you to pay,...for the shame you deserve for being a sexually active woman." That's it. Bottom line: this is about woman-hating, it is an effort to gain dictatorial power over the female (majority!) population, it is hatred of any sexuality that isn't shame-based and doesn't result in a pregnancy. And, further, it is about creating more cannon fodder for their wars (where are these people who are shouting about the sanctity of life now?), and more low-wage (slave) labor for the wealthy. I wish the women who support these pieces of excrement would notice that the people who are promoting these vile legal restrictions only use the social issues as a red herring, to garner more votes for politicians who only serve people who are so wealthy that sucking up every bit of wealth in the world would not satisfy them.

And no one in the corporate owned bile-spewing media ever asks, "what about the quality of life for the living woman, why does her life and welfare not matter at all?"

tblue! Great post.