Hear me roar:

[trinityvixen]

...with mighty anger at even the possibility of this law being considered, let alone discussed, thought over, or--HEAVEN FORBID--passed. Someone from Ohio: please reassure me that your state is not so fundamentally misogynist that this looks like a good idea to anyone.

Let's break it down and cut through the bullshit right now. Do parents have rights? Yes. Do fathers have rights? They sure do. Do those rights need to be defended? All human rights should be, and fathers are human.

But so are mothers. Defense of rights does not permit offense against the rights of others (your rights end where mine begin, and so forth). If a father says he wants a child, by this proposal, his word carries more weight than the incubator--sorry, the human fucking being who actually has to go through the physical and emotional (to say nothing of financial) burden of actually birthing the fetus. In the case where two people are responsible but one is biologically more responsible, the one with greater responsibility to the fetus should have the greater voice. If a man wants a baby so bad, he'll have to arrange a barter/expense system for obtaining one (some guys call it "marriage," nyuck nyuck). But until they can birth their own, their word must, logically, play second to that of the mother.

And, no, token idiot woman brainwashed by the sky-fairy, men don't have an automatic right to all knowledge about any given uterus their penis might have flirted with. That uterus does actually belong to someone. So fuck off and die. Preferably in childbirth that you couldn't abort because your husband didn't say yes. I would appreciate the irony as much as the efficacy.

...with mighty joy: Anna Quindlen sings it like it is. Of all the things I don'tmiss about my fairly useless subscription to Newsweek, her column isn't one of them. They were often the best thing in the whole magazine. And this new tactic against the policies of considering women as either gullible fools to a woman or less-than-man beings of similar genetic make-up? DYNAMITE.

So, let's hear it anti-choicers: Just how much jail time does a low-down, dirty, child-murdering woman deserve when abortion is a crime? Worm your way out of that, you sons of dogs (yeah, you wish bitches).

Comments

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

The whole 'father's say' thing is difficult though. I can understand some men being distressed because they do want to have the baby and have practically no say in it, but then it would be horribly cruel to force a woman to go through with a pregnancy she didn't want.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's not "you poke it, you own it." It's "I was born with it, so it's mine and fuck your sperm-preservationist instinct."

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming you're being hyperbolic? Surely you don't see men simply as walking sperm banks?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm reducing them to the same denominator as women are reduced with the "you poke it, you own it" comment in the first sentence.

But yeah, sperm magic believers annoy the piss out of me, and they tend to be the ones who object to women's autonomy because it denies the magic of the sperm. Which is Not Cool.