Joey

here’s the deal. you get printed and swabbed in 2015 for boostin cars. you go down for a few, and get out and switch to boostin people. hurtin em, beatin em, rapin em. you aren’t clean on one of the jobs and they get a blood/semen partial from the victim. they run it. your name pops up as a probable.

PROBABLE.

PROBABLE CAUSE.

that is enough for a warrant to get another swab, and get accurate, real time, first person data AGAIN on your felony past.

its just like a line up when someone robs a liquor store and you say he was a tall white man in blue sneakers with a hoodie.

they round up about 5-10 individuals and ask for a visual ID.

only this shit works 10 million times better.

how is that bad?

seriously?

how is that bad?

Well, first of all, (putting aside the rather pronounced creep-o factor), this post deals with the birth control pill–not surgical abortion. Would you consider all women who use the birth control pill to be “murderers” who deserve to be punished violently, as you suggest? That is millions upon millions of women you’re talking about here.

Abortion and birth control are very touchy subjects, and I sympathize with people who feel uncomfortable with one, or the other, or both. However, I will never be able to understand how people who call themselves “pro-life” can justify threatening violence against women who are making decisions about the right thing to do with their own bodies.

Of course, usually a “pro-life” person will turn around and claim that violence against an “innocent” (ie: unborn person) is murder, whereas violence against a woman who makes a decision to have an abortion is some form of justice.

HOWEVER, we have to keep in mind that women who use the birth control pill or women who have abortions (NOT the same thing, mind you!!!) are, well, people. They are human beings, with lives–not potential lives. I do not consider a fetus a “person” in that same sense–potential for life is not the same thing as life. (Have you ever heard Monty Python’s song “Every Sperm is Sacred”? It’s sort of like that!)

Of course, a “pro-lifer” would respond to that with the rather predictable and not particularly effective retort: “Well, would you have liked YOUR mother to have an abortion?”

However, had my mother decided to have an abortion, I would never have existed in the first place. That question is just as inane as, “Would you have liked it if your parents had headaches on the night of your conception?” Of course I am glad that I was conceived and carried to term. (I rather like myself, and I think it is pretty cool to exist!)

But, had I not been conceived, or had I not been carried to term, well, my life would never have happened. I would not have been murdered–I just never would have come into existence.

If potential lives were always the same as actual lives, then every moment that we’re not copulating is murder! (Quick everyone: save a life! Have some of “the sex” this instant!)

Perhaps I sound rather flippant–but in all seriousness, people who are pro-choice are not cold-hearted murderers. We are not trying to commit genocide, nor are we against babies. (If you saw me watching Huggies commercials, you would see how much I dig them!)

But, we do believe that no person should be forced to use their bodies for something that they do not want to do. Women’s bodies are their own, not the state’s. Having babies can be a wonderful and beautiful thing–as long as the woman is actively consenting in that practice. If she does not want babies now, or yet, or ever, then she should not be forced to do so. That makes motherhood into some sort of creepy slavery . . . and that is not good for anyone.

Oh, and if you were serious about wanting to reduce the number of abortions, how about joining us in subsidizing sex ed classes, making sure there is freely available and inexpensive birth control for anyone engaging in sexual activity, subsidized pre-natal care, paid maternity leave for all women, and insurance for all of our citizens, particularly children?

That might be more productive than veiled threats against college student bloggers, and it would certainly be less, well, creepy.