I hate everything right now.

[apocalypsos]

Every time I try to come up with something intelligent to say about the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, who provided late-term abortions, I have a "Flames ... on the side of my face ..." type of reaction.

So I'll just say this.

If you seriously believe that women are so lazy and stupid as a group that a majority of late-term abortions are done not out of medical necessity but because women just routinely and casually decide they don't want to carry a healthy fetus anymore in the eighth month ... if you honestly believe that a woman should be forced to carry a dead fetus until her body decides to get rid of it, if it doesn't give her an infection and kill her off too ... if you can stand there and tell me with a straight expression that every birth defect and flaw can be caught before the fetus becomes theoretically viable outside of the womb and women just wait to get rid of those fetuses out of laziness ... if you actually think a woman should have to carry a fetus without a face or a fucking brain for weeks if not months knowing full well it'll die immediately after birth ...

Get off my friendslist.

No, seriously, get the fuck away from me.

And I hope you never have to learn why the right to a late-term abortion is so goddamn important.

Comments

[eh-notsomuch.livejournal.com]

Fuck yeah.

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

You? Rock like a rocking thing.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

This.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry about your friend. I live in Kansas and knew who Dr Tiller was by name, of course, and didn't hear about his murder until reading it on apocalypsos' journal. It was one of those things I was always afraid would happen since there had been so many attempts before.

This is hideous and awful and I'm just sick about it. There were SO MANY organizations and people who targeted Dr Tiller with lies and hatred, and they are all responsible. Not that Roeder isn't -- this is a guy who apparently drove from KC down to Wichita just to murder Dr Tiller. (Roeder hasn't been convicted, of course.) And you know many in those organizations, mostly in Operation Rescue, are praising the alleged murderer as a hero.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, yes.

[minim_calibre]

Fuck yes.

My wanted, desired, long-in-coming pregnancy could have killed me (blood pressure related complications). Or, worse, forced me to choose between myself or the kid. Thankfully, it didn't, but you damn well bet I spent every viability milestone slowly exhaling. Not everyone gets to be the lucky one in that situation.

[brigidsblest.livejournal.com]

You said this so much better than I ever could. Can I link to this?

[azziria.livejournal.com]

Word!

In an ideal world there would be no need for late-term abortions. However, we don't live in an ideal world. The women who have to go through this, and the people who help them, deserve our sympathy and support, not condemnation.

[purple-smurf.livejournal.com]

I love you. This, entirely, this.

[herbmcsidhe.livejournal.com]

I'm not one your friends list, but have been following back your comment to its source. Thank you for saying something I've been trying to express all day.

[wolfshark]

Thank you for saying what I was thinking, and saying it much better than I ever could.

[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

I'll admit to being an idiot, but...I thought if the fetus was dead, it was a...Dilate and Clean, not an abortion.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Try explaining that to these people. There's far too many stories out there of women turned away from hospitals with dead fetuses still in their uterus because it's a Catholic hospital and they refuse to do abortions. (See marag's comment above.)

[dragon-within.livejournal.com]

Followed a link here and all I can say is

Thank you!

[neohippie.livejournal.com]

THIS.

[neohippie.livejournal.com]

Linked this on my LJ too. Thanks.

And thanks to the other people who have posted very thought-provoking comments on here too.

[lothlorienbaby.livejournal.com]

AMEN.

[musyc]

Damn right.

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

This. And linked in the post on my journal.

(I found my way here via kajivar for the record.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

The procedure is the same whether the fetus is alive or not, so the campaign against late-term abortion de facto means that there are fewer and fewer doctors with the knowledge to perform the procedure. Also, as apocalypsos notes, many hospitals (particularly but not exclusively Catholic hospitals) will refuse to induce miscarriage even if the fetus is dead or brain-dead.

[laughingimp.livejournal.com]

Preach it, sister.

/found my way here via harmonyfb

[kumquatweekend.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this. I'd like to repost this (with credit) on my personal journal. That okay?

[porntestpilot.livejournal.com]

That's so disgusting. That is literally one of the most horrible thing I can think of doing to a person, making them carry a dead baby in their...

I need to stop typing this and go cry.

[cailamaia.livejournal.com]

Found my way here via lavenderfrost's journal. All I can say is, well said.

May those hypocrites never have to find out the hard way how wrong they are.

[flameish.livejournal.com]

I concur! I strongly strongly concur and want to link to this at the bottom of my own very strongly worded rant about people who are pro-life and murder people...

Also, I am adding you to my flist solely for the sheer awesomeness of someone having some goddamn common sense for a change.