The abortion debate is raging on just about every forum I visit. Here is something to think about... (I copied this from our local Craigs' List)
Right, wrong, indifferent...the part that concerns me is the systematic dismantling of woman's rights. What do you think could happen to your rights as a woman, if you give away YOUR RIGHT to have an abortion? Taking away a woman's choice to be in control of her body and protect herself from future subjugation, allows the wheels of history to roll slowly backwards. What rights might they take away next? Do you like having the right to vote?
Not so many years ago, Muslim women thrived. They were educated, owned businesses, held jobs, and had the CHOICE to wear the burka. When religious extremists (Taliban) enforced their violent, no-tolerance version of government and installed a new theocratic ideal, one of the first things that went was woman's rights (not pointing fingers at you die-hard Christians or anything). How better to control a nation than to cripple their women with laws that silence their mouths and shroud their eyes? The creation of laws that take away woman’s rights silences half of society and dumbs-down the remaining half.
The last time making abortion illegal came up seriously in the news, I thought of our veiled neighbors in the East and considered, ‘If we are not vigilant, that could easily happen here.’ Young women today have a blind sense of entitlement. They often don't understand and, frankly take for granted, their rights. They have no concept of what the Woman's Right Movement was about nor how easily their privileged lifestyles could be ripped away from them. Who in the hell gives up their rights????? Nobody says you have to go have an abortion, but for goodness, maintain your right to have one!
Your rights as a woman are something we fought for and must continue fighting for. Giving in to sappy anti-abortion pleas is as good as trading in your voter’s registration card…or your right to travel alone…or your right to own property…or your right to hold a degree or a job…or your right to tell your husband to ‘piss-off!’
As a woman, you have only had the right to vote since 1920. Birth control was not approved by the Food and Drug Administration until 1960. In 1973, The Supreme Court established your RIGHT to have an abortion. This was re-affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1992.
All it takes to drive women to ruin and revert our society back to the stone-ages is the removal of your rights; a woman's choice to be in control of her destiny, as opposed to suffocating under the thumb of self-righteous, theocratic oppression.
