More anti-woman batshit fuckery

[veronica_rich]

I have a friend who tries very hard to get me to be reasonable about the GOP, who means well and tries to convince me that people are not their parties and that being a particular party member does not indicate what kind of person one is. She may be right - after all, there are Democrats who agree with the measure the GOP initially proposed to redefine what it means to be raped in this country - but considering I see more Republicans behind bullshit such as this, I really have a difficult time remaining objective.

(Incidentally, I wrote to my Congressman about H.R. 3, explaining that "forcible rape" has always been tough to define under law - that's why it hasn't been thus far - and that rape victims already have a hard time proving their allegations even with visible bruises and injuries sometimes. I got a canned reply that was politely phrased but might as well have said "I don't care. Eat shit and die, woman.")

Their newest shiny anti-woman proposal (phrasing courtesy of Daily Kos, I can't take credit - it's also called it the "Let Women Die Bill," which admittedly has more zing) is H.R. 358, a measure pushing to make it legal for doctors to let pregnant women die rather than administering an abortion or referring them to a doctor who has no moral objections to performing one. Frankly, I don't know many physicians who would refuse to perform an abortion to save a dying woman - it's just part of their oath and their mindset to NOT let the more viable patient die - but all it would take is one.

I am getting really tired of living in a nation ruled by mythology (not to mention romanticism and unrealistic expectations of parenthood and gender roles). We're no better than ancient people who cowered every time lightning struck, that they had angered Zeus or offended Thor in some manner.

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[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Reagan himself was pretty well brain-damaged by the time he was in office, what with the Alzheimer's setting in. His advisors did a great deal of the damage (notice how a Bush and a Rumsfeld and Cheney has been behind most of our nation's bad decisions for the last 40 years?), though, in his name. Did you see where Reagan's son was pointing out that Palin, who was praising Ronnie-baby to the heavens, has little in common with his father fiscally or otherwise? It was pretty entertaining. It's like Worse and Worser, and the GOP has no sane choices.