House Decides To Sell Women’s Rights To Get Bill Passed

11/10/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
Men carry in their seed a tiny homunculus which he plows into a woman’s fertile fields. What does that mean? Well, it means that abortion is murder, and so is masturbation, fellatio, contraception, and anything that destroys the sperm. After all, every sperm is sacred, as per the Monty Python song. Vasectomies are right off the list. Nocturnal emissions are the work of succubi, after all, who sneak into a boys bedroom to steal his sperm and vitality when he is sleeping. This is all at the very center of what the anti-choice advocates are about. A return to the thinking of when a man owned a woman like he owned the fields he plowed, because, after all, a woman was a field to be plowed.

The Stupak Amendment is simple. Women should not be allowed to get an abortion, after all, it would mean murdering the tiny little homunculus inside her, and that tiny little person of which the woman has contributed nothing will be denied the right to grow into a full human being inside the fertile land of her womb. And a man must own that land, for after all, a man must own what he plows.

It sounds crazy, does it not? This is the center of the logic behind those who want to deny women any right to choose. It is at the center of the beliefs that these groups espouse.

The important question is why have the Democrats decided to put the rights of men ahead of the rights of women? Why is it that men will be granted superior health care, but women are expected to pay for their own abortion if they run into a complication? Abortions are not just about “on demand, after the fact birth control” as many men would like to portray it as. Many women who get abortions do so because of necessity. They have to terminate a pregnancy because of the risk to themselves, or because it is unhealthy to carry around a feotus which is, in all likelihood, going to be stillborn or be so twisted that it will not survive for long. It apparently never occurred to men like James Clyburn that women have elective abortions for reasons other than just decided that the baby is not worth it.

The Stupak Amendment is not about preventing federal funds from being used for abortions, but it is about preventing women from getting one at all. It is about ensuring that the maternal and infant mortality rate in this country goes even further upwards. After all, what is next, making sure that insurance companies won’t pay for contraception, but they will pay for Viagra. After all, is that not what the Catholic Bishops who demanded the Stupak Amendment want? Is it not their belief that contraception should be outlawed like it is in many third world nations?

The Stupak Amendment needs to be removed if this is to pass, and it must be removed. This is not about abortion rights, but rather about the rights of women to be equals. The debate is often framed as being about the life of the feotus, but, in truth, it is about ensuring that women have no say in their lives at all.

It is time for Congress to remember that one does not get a bill to pass by selling out the rights of one minority. After all, it feels like a pattern. First sell out LGBT-Americans so as to not upset the Social Conservatives by getting rid of DOMA, DADT, and passing ENDA. Then sell out women in order to get the healthcare bill passed. Which group will be next?