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leavethesky) wrote2006-02-19 05:59 pm
leavethesky) wrote2006-02-19 05:59 pm
OT -BSG 'choice' rant
A lot of people are using the latest ep of BSG as an entre into political discussion about choice. Actually, that's not true. They've taken the opportunity to sermonize me and other LJers with anti-choice rhetoric. So let me just get this out there so you people can de-friend me if you like:
You will NEVER convince me (not even the tiniest bit) that abortion (or birth control) should be illegal or even regulated. You know how important the Bible was in your household when you were growing up? That's how important a woman's right to control her own body is to me and my family. In my childhood home, a woman's right to choose was the holiest of Holy, right up there with First Amendment rights and that whole "separation of church and state" thing. Nothing you could possibly say or do would convince me otherwise.
So, please, defriend me if you must, just understand that I don't agree with you and simply writing more and more on the subject in angrier language really isn't going to change my mind. In fact, it'll just make me defriend you because I know I'll never change your mind either and I'll just end up getting pissed off and stressed out and really I can't be bothered. If we can agree to disagree and know that our love of femslash transcends all of our differences, great. If not, see ya! [/rant]
You will NEVER convince me (not even the tiniest bit) that abortion (or birth control) should be illegal or even regulated. You know how important the Bible was in your household when you were growing up? That's how important a woman's right to control her own body is to me and my family. In my childhood home, a woman's right to choose was the holiest of Holy, right up there with First Amendment rights and that whole "separation of church and state" thing. Nothing you could possibly say or do would convince me otherwise.
So, please, defriend me if you must, just understand that I don't agree with you and simply writing more and more on the subject in angrier language really isn't going to change my mind. In fact, it'll just make me defriend you because I know I'll never change your mind either and I'll just end up getting pissed off and stressed out and really I can't be bothered. If we can agree to disagree and know that our love of femslash transcends all of our differences, great. If not, see ya! [/rant]
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Um.
Yeah. ;) What you said... ;)
ACtually, I still can't understand (after this many years) why it's a 'pro-life/pro-choice' discussion (with regards to abortion/birth control/etc) since it implies diametrically opposite opinions, when it really isn't that argument (pro-life/pro-choice implies pro-life/anti-life discussion, with pro-choice being equated anti-life).
But that's just me and my whole confusion thing. Considering I wrote a paper on RU-486 when it was first released some years ago, my views on abortion are pretty much: it's a hard enough choice to make, let's not make it harder by injecting a whole bunch of none-of-your-business-people into the whole process. *shrug*
*going back to lurk and read*
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I don't get it either. Except that it's a brilliant tactic on the part of the right. Instead of seeing it as a complex issue, they frame it as a binary argument so that everyone has to pick a side. And since no one wants to be anti-life., as if that were actually possible...
The problem lies at that issue of 'none of your business'. Because they argue that they have a moral obligation to make it their business. Which is why I'd like to reclaim that idea of morality. Because I have a moral (and just as legitimate) obligation to tell them to butt the fuck out.
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*snorts* at the idea of any woman's body being any one's business other than her own. If people don't want me to tell them not to (drink, smoke, inhale fumes of a herbal sort), then they don't get to tell (anyone: man/woman/child) not to (do whatever to my/their body, that doesn't affect anyone but the individual).
The state has no business in the bedrooms of private citizens.
The state has no business in the bodies of women (or men).
Moral beliefs aside, until people are willing to accept that if they want to impose their views on others, they darned well better be willing to have someone else's views imposed on themselves.
Somehow, the shoe on the other foot never fits as well as people feel it should. *shrug*
Because they argue that they have a moral obligation to make it their business.
I'm perverse enough to argue that I have a moral obligation to not listen or respond to anyone that makes anything that is my business theirs. ;) *g*