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

[ljs-lj.livejournal.com]

Hell, yes.

[sashimi-san.livejournal.com]

Brilliant post. I think I'm going to link it on my journal.

RIP Dr Tiller.

[heather.livejournal.com]

THANK you.

[nostariel]

Linked and fucking signed.

[ibejedi.livejournal.com]

Here via kittikattie.

All I can say is...Fuck yeah. My thoughts exactly.

And anyone who would care to read exactly why late abortions are needed, follow this link and read Lynda Waddington's story. (This is a link to her interview from CNN -- be sure to click this link as well to read her letter and see the whole story.) Lynda, incidentally, is my cousin...and I never knew about her story until I saw CNN the other night. I guarantee you will be moved.

(BTW, I friended you, hope you don't mind! We've actually got a few in common - and you seem like a cool-ass chick! Gonna link to your entry too in my journal.)

[auntiesiannan.livejournal.com]

The antis used to picket a gynecologist's office in my home town that didn't even PERFORM ABORTIONS. No, I ain't kidding.

This was in the seat of the archdiocese and they just couldn't handle ladies getting their bits prodded three blocks from the cathedral.

That side is full of fail.

Also, to the OP: you rock. I am here via kittikattie and I agree with you 100%.

[lineaalba.livejournal.com]

I don't know you, but I fully agree with what you've said here - kudos to you!

You said it!

[tashien.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I've sat with friends who had to have abortions, held thier hands, then held them afterwards as they bawled and howled like thier very souls were being ripped to shreds and bawled and howled with them 'cause my heart broke for them and thier loss.. The staff and doc of the clinic we were at always took the time to comfort and soothe and man were they never in it for the money. These weren't late term abortions and these friends weren't "lazy" and doing it because they were irresponsible. They were doing it because there was no alternative and the baby was dead, dying or missing vital pieces that would make it's life brief, painful and inhumane. I've always gotten in the faces of "Christians" who would condem these women and the medical professionals who help them, 'cause they just piss me off to the point I see red. Dr. Tiller had a positive impact on women who otherwise may have died and spared them the heart breaking trauma of watching thier children live in horrible pain and suffering for however long they would have outside the womb. I miscarried 4 children, the last one because a religious hospital did not complete a sterilization, only "clamped" my tubes with sutures meant to disolve over time. I had no idea and when I miscarried, I was so heartbroken and distrught I wanted to choke the doc that did it. So, the religious nuts that claim Dr. Tiller & others like him are murders should be inflicted with the same sort of pain these women and thier families go thru. But then, I'm kinda vindictive that way. And my Christian Aunt wonders what happened that most people today want nothing to do with Christianity. Go figure.

[amarin-rose.livejournal.com]

This is a perfect(ly awful) example of people clinging so tightly to the rule that the idea of exceptions does not even occur to them. Add when te exceptions are pointed out to them, they refuse to internalize them at all. I just...I hope this kind of hatred eventually dies out of the human race, but I realize it's kinda pointless, because people will always find something new to hate.

You fail, humanity. *sad sigh*