Getting Guys & God out of the crotches of womankind [View all]

[SoCalDem]

Number ONE of the list of "things for women to do", should be this one thing.

#1. Get men (especially Godly-men) out of the reproduction-regulation business.

For a very long time, people were enraged at how the Chinese government stepped into birth regulation with their one-child policy, and at the callous way they overstepped moral boundaries by forcing abortions/abandonment of so many children. What our very own zealots are doing (trying to do) is not all that much different. They do it with the same vigor and determination, and they do it by poking around in the female reproduction organs of every female in America.

Birth control, pregnancy, pregnancy termination, sterilization, family size and all other strictly "womanly" things should be left to :
1) the woman
2) the woman and her doctor
3) the woman and her significant other
4) see 1,2,3 above

People who should NEVER be "in the driver's seat":

Her congressperson
Her senator
The Supreme Court (or any other court)
Her Boss
Random sign-carrying zealots who want to "change her mind"
Her local newspaper


Medical procedures that are safe and legal, as well as medications that are safe and legal, should be available (and affordable) to any and all who want them.

Once declared "safe and legal", they should remain so UNTIL proof-positive that they are no longer safe. Their legality should NOT be subject the the whims and vicissitudes of political zealots who crop up from time to time.

TOO MUCH TIME is wasted throughout our history as the same things get re-legislated over and over. Imagine if every few years prohibition was put forth to re-legislate. (or any other long-ago legislation).

Religion seems to be an important part of many people's lives, and it should be their OWN business. If their religion says they should be fruitful to the nth degree (see the Duggar Family), then that should be their own personal choice, and no one else's place to regulate.

Likewise, if a Catholic woman (according to statistics, 99% of them ) wants to use birth control, it should not be the business of our legislature to "protect her soul". That should be between her and her own god...not our national government.

Here's hoping that more women get elected this time around, and they can get back to doing important things in congress...like:

jobs
upside down home loans
college debt
getting hungry people fed
getting homeless people housed
income inequity
ending that idiotic war
stabilizing the energy needs v cost for the nation
learning to ignore Iran a little more
resisting the urge to join in fights that do not concern us