Abortion Rant

I’m tired of tip toeing around other people’s superstitions disguised as religious beliefs.

I'm tired of watching woefully ignorant members of Congress pretend that their mythology is a substitute for good medical practice, good science and common sense.

The right to believe anyway one wishes is guaranteed by the US Constitution.
The ability of one group of Americans to deny medical care to another is prohibited.

Abortion is a medical procedure not a political football.
There are indications for the performance of this procedure that are based on sound science and compassion.

The same rigor used by a surgeon in deciding to perform an appendectomy is exercised before performing an abortion. There have to be firm indications that such a procedure would benefit the patient.

You could make the same arguments against performing an appendectomy that the maudlin fetus lovers make regarding abortion.

God intended this vestigial organ to become inflamed and you should just suck it up and bear it like a real woman.

You are a divine miracle of the process of fertilization, gestation and birth. It is not up to you to dispose of your appendix.

If you are going to walk around with an appendix, expect to pay the price.

The same group of people that get all teary eyed about the fate of someone else’s fetus don’t bat an eye about a social agenda that ignores the inevitable fall out from an unjust economic system.

They are unmoved if the elderly, the young, the infirm and the unfortunate are left to die prematurely on the streets without basic human needs.

They seem unaffected by the protracted tragedy of failed foreign policy and useless wars in which hundreds of thousands of innocent people are murdered and for which their own sons and daughters lives are forfeit.

One of more interesting explanations I have seen for the contradictory set of beliefs held by those who claim Jesus as their OB-GYN is that these people are suffering from unresolved psychological conflicts regarding their own potential for violence and destruction.

Loving a fetus that you will never see, carry or care for is an effortless way to think of yourself as a kind person, especially if you are concerned that you may not be quite as Christ like as you would like.
Forcing others to comply to your own uncomfortable beliefs and behaviors enables you to avoid scrutinizing those beliefs and makes your own misery easier to bear.

Contrary to the misguided and misapplied beliefs of some, humans were not found under a cabbage leaf 4000 years ago.
We have an ancient heritage that exists within a web of life.

The fact that we share 50% of our genetic make up with a banana shows how wide ranging and deep our genetic heritage is.

If Terminix were successful in eradicating all of the termites world wide, it is unlikely that anything, let alone humans would survive.
Termites have a critical role to play in maintaining the oxygen level in the atmostphere. Too much and the atmostphere could ignite, too little and there would be mass extinctions.

I digress. Back to sex.

Different animal species have evolved regulatory mechanisms for keeping their populations in balance with their environment and otherwise avoiding unwanted pregnancies.

For instance, some animals won’t breed if they don’t hold a territory.
Wild mares don’t ovulate when the range is poor.
Most species won't breed if they are in poor health or conditions are adverse to the survival of the young.

Reproduction is timed to correspond to abundant food supply and favorable weather, neither of which are being provided by the current administration.

Our primate heritage does not limit sexual activity to procreation.
There are a whole host of individual and group strategies that involve sex.

Many have tried mightily to pull up that part of humanity's roots out of its native soil by rationing, punishing, shaming and otherwise dictating sexual behavior.

They have all failed spectacularly; many with tragic results.

Humans don’t have the pre-programmed population strategies that many other species have evolved.
We have big brains and protracted childhoods that allow us to learn how to survive and succeed.

We are dependent on using our accumulated knowledge and cognitive ability to care for ourselves and our offspring while maintaining a balance with our environment.
Failing to use our most powerful evolutionary advantage; our ability think and adapt to varying conditions of life is not religion, it's a suicide pact.

It is time for us to put our collective foot down regarding the oppressive attempts of individuals and groups to interfere with our ability to think and decide for ourselves what is consistent with our own welfare and the welfare of those who depend upon us.

Reproductive decisions are not a subject for public debate, they are agonizing private decisions one makes (hopefully) with the help and support of medical professionals. They are non negotiable.

If the fetus fetishists are feeling lonely and betrayed by the loss of the ability to harass others over the disposal their eggs and sperm, they might try re-directing their tender mercies toward the all ready born.

They might expand their "culture of life" to include the 20,000,000 children who are growing up in ever deepening poverty because they were manipulated by unscrupulous bag men and their own inner demons to vote for the worst bunch of hardened thieves, liars and war mongers in living memory.

CarolDW