Pro-Life Nation: Rightwing Utopia
7 April 2006 by AaronA truly terrifying post found by way of Tennessee Guerilla Women- for oinkers like Wally – this should read like a wet dream.
Search warrants for vaginas, women chained to beds in intensive care units for the crime of abortion, laws that protect the fetus even when the life of the woman is at risk, women imprisoned for 30 to 50 years for the crime of abortion, the complete criminalization of abortion — it sounds like the Handmaiden’s Tale.
But it’s reality in El Salvador today, a utopian nation in the eyes of South Dakota lawmakers and rightwingers everywhere.
If lawmakers succeed in defining abortion as murder, El Salvador is the logical outcome.
This Sunday’s New York Times Magazine will have the story: Pro-Life Nation. You can hear an interview with the author at the link below. Try not to listen to it late at night, or you’ll be rewarded with bone chilling freakin’ nightmares.
Our crazed womb policing lawmakers need to be deluged with copies of this story. Better yet, every woman in America should hear about it, maybe then some of the mothers, daughters, sisters, wives and girlfriends of the womb police will finally start kicking some womb police ass. Talk about sleeping with the enemy!
Forensic Vagina Specialist (audio)
This Sunday’s New York Times Magazine cover story will be a profile of a nation 8 years into the complete and total criminalization of abortion. No rape clause, no life of the mother clause. Nothing.
Air America’s Rachel Maddow (if you don’t listen to her you don’t know what you’re missing) interviews one of my favorite journalists Jack Hitt on his cover story (click orange buttons to listen or download).
What you find is a nation in a near-Handmaid’s Tale dystopia where a mother of three is imprisoned for 30 years, where a woman must wait until her ectopic pregnancy bursts in her fallopian tubes to get surgery, where the mother of a pregnant woman can be prosecuted for giving aid and comfort to her daughter before, during or after an illegal abortion.
The title of this post? The folks who check vaginas for evidence of an abortion procedure. It’s real.
But it can’t happen here. The world is not a crazed place. And the Holocaust is a figment of your fanatical leftwing imagination.
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7 April 2006, on 4:51 pm
Damn. The thing is, the Xian Taliban probably believe their own bullshit that they do what they do because they care about all those little babies, when really all they want to do is control and subjugate women. As George Carlin said, they believe women should be broodmares for the state.
7 April 2006, on 6:23 pm
I highly recommend everyone to read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale if you haven’t already. Its message is powerful.
7 April 2006, on 8:25 pm
I just got around to listening to the broadcast story.
Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Paul Manata should be strapped to a table and forced to listen to this over and over again while being given electrical shocks.
I need to go puke.
7 April 2006, on 8:36 pm
Sean, I’m cynical about this; I bet they’d naysay it publicly while secretly wishing they could pull it off here. I wouldn’t put it past any of them to want to be part of the Forensic Vaginal Examiner force.
7 April 2006, on 9:02 pm
Hey, YOU.
Yes, you fundie fucks out there, I’m talking to YOU.
I’m not angry at god; I’m FURIOUS at YOU. You want to control, possess, manipulate, and OWN me. You want me to do what YOU say, want, and expect. You want me to be your silent, invisible, pregnant, barefoot SLAVE, and you could care less if I’m willing or not. If you could remove my brain, lock me in a chastity belt, and hand the key over from father to husband you WOULD. Barring removing my brain, if you could outlaw my reading or writing, you WOULD. If you could recreate the US in the image of El Salvador and Saudi Arabia, you WOULD. That way, you could legislate and control my entire LIFE from cradle to grave as well as my entire BODY inside and out.
If I got raped, became pregnant, and wanted an abortion–
and you could chain me to a bed; force-feed me for nine months; give me a caesarean; then hand the baby to me and kick me out of the hospital, even if it means straight onto the street–
you WOULD – with the bill for the nine-month hospital stay and surgery clutched in my hand.
THAT is what you really mean when you preach to me about “family values” and “pro-life.”
THAT is what you really mean when you tell me that god made man the leader and woman the “second-in-command.”
You want me to shut up, bitch, or I’ll have to teach you your place, and then you want me to be GRATEFUL to you for LEADING me.
I KNOW you now.
I KNOW what you really want, what you’re really after, what you’re really thinking about me, what you really want me to do.
But you’re not getting it.
You’ll have to BURN me at the stake first.
And if you do, I will have WON, for the FIRE kindled by my martyrdom will SHINE more brightly than any other candle in the DARK.
7 April 2006, on 9:25 pm
Wow Eve! That was awesome! That should be PUBLISHED and mailed to ALL XIANS and a speech on all major news stations. I am going to save this and make flyers! Seriously…this is going to be on my response to any future xian spammers to my email. It’s great.
7 April 2006, on 9:32 pm
Thanks, star! I was so angry, I thought about making it a main-page post, but I felt I’d be piggy-backing on Lya’s post too much, so I decided to keep it as a comment here since this was what sparked it.
That said, I’ve saved it as a draft and on my computer so that I can whip it out whenever those feelings rear up again.
Whew! It really feels good to rant, doesn’t it?
7 April 2006, on 10:33 pm
Eve, I posted your comment on my blog. Hope that’s okay.
7 April 2006, on 11:17 pm
Eve, YES! It feels VERY good to rant! I am glad I found this blog. I lurked for a long time before commenting not knowing how an older person would be accepted, but these guys are really great.
7 April 2006, on 11:21 pm
Another reason I like this blog is LOTS OF BACKUP SUPPORT. If I don’t know something, someone else does and when I am not able to be here, and someone writes some ludicrous comments to me, someone always jumps in to answer. The commenters and writers of the posts are witty and intelligent.
7 April 2006, on 11:39 pm
Eve, that rocked. You gave me chills, and you were dead on about everything.
As we’ve said here before, you’re not alone. There is a firewall of good men that will stand with you against these bastards. They WILL NOT win.
8 April 2006, on 12:06 am
Wow Eve. Simply amazing. I don’t know what else to say.
8 April 2006, on 12:11 am
Given the ado in DC these days, it looks like we’re on the right track.
8 April 2006, on 10:36 am
[...] I linked over to this radio interview from God is for Suckers, you can listen to it from the player below or link to the original on AlterNet . [...]
9 April 2006, on 1:18 pm
Tennessee Guerilla Women is a great source of info and insight. I’ve posted a few comments there myself. Someone posted an amazing item on “fetus-in-fetu —- a medical abnormality that occurs about once every 500,000 births, wherein a fetus in the womb has another fetus” — this pertained to a 2-month old Pakistani girl from whom doctors removed her absorbed triplet siblings. Commentators questioned whether such surgery would be considered an illegal abortion here. Regarding vagina cops, pro-choicers should inspect the garbage of anti-choicers for thrown-out tampons with coffee-aborted embryos, then threaten arrests for “baby-killing” and hold tampon funerals. Pro-choicers should also send boxes of Depends adult diapers and divorce lawyer listings to anti-choicers’ offices with letters explaining imposed childbirths ruin 30-50% of all women’s bladder and bowel control, thus wrecking their marriages. Pro-choicers should introduce laws holding fathers, politicians, and priests criminally and financially responsible for all childbirths that maim or murder mothers. Imposing fetuses to kill or injure women is no different from Scott Peterson using his fists. Newt Gingrich should be in jail for nearly killing his first wife with breast cancer caused by bearing his daughters. Make men responsible for fetal damage to women.
10 April 2006, on 2:52 pm
K’vitsh: Eve, I posted your comment on my blog. Hope that’s okay.
No problem, K; thank you for the acknowledgement.
10 April 2006, on 3:04 pm
Sean: As we’ve said here before, you’re not alone. There is a firewall of good men that will stand with you against these bastards. They WILL NOT win.
Now *I’m* the one who got chills – good ones!
And Marcus, KR, thanks for the kudos. star, as Sean said some time back, “We’re quite the merry little band,” aren’t we?
7 October 2006, on 4:23 pm
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