by Basketcasemama

Created on: February 19, 2007   Last Updated: May 01, 2007

It stuns me whenever I read articles indicating that one politician or another has taken the stance that Roe vs. Wade should be overturned. Please do not think this indicates that I'm necessarily pro-abortion. I'm not. What is irksome is that in most cases the person taking this stance is male. Frankly, I do not feel that any man has the right to make any legal decisions concerning the use of my body...period. Weather it be for medical testing or for incubation of a fetus, this decision should be left in it's entity to the female. No person, male or female should have politicians, government or other people legislating the use of their bodies.

Worse is when the male population of politicians takes the stance that females should not be permitted to terminate a pregnancy. We can argue the validity of fetus and at what point that fetus is considered a life and the whole murder thing at another juncture. What I am opposed to is that male politicians feel that they somehow have a right to legislate a pregnancy and the treatment of it. I'd be far more compassionate to their cause if they were legislating the welfare of children already born into combative households with inadequate parents, or the welfare of unborn children whose crackhead mothers are prostitutes doing drugs and passing on addiction and disease to their children. The fact that politicians do nothing about helping the children being born into these insane conditions, leads me to believe the reality is that they don't want to "save lives" as one might believe. What they really want is to stir up controversy and get votes for the conservative Christian contingency.

Roe vs. Wade will make people stand up and notice. Women's rights groups will rally. Christian groups will shout with glee. Catholics will carry signs.
Lots of people won't pay attention and won't care. But, women should care. Regardless of your opinions regarding abortion specifically, women should care a great deal. See Roe vs. Wade protects us not just from continuing an unwanted pregnancy against our will, but it protects us from husbands, boyfriends, politicians, and legislatures who think they have the right to control us through our reproductive abilities. Men can't have babies. This law does not affect them in the least, yet they are the ones who constantly debate it's legitimacy. They use smoke and mirrors to disguise the action's true intent. They claim it's about saving unborn lives, but the realities are quite different. If we allow

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