Let's Get Real-The Basics: Extreme Religion Stops a Thinking Brain & Kills Women and Teenage Girls

[kpete]

SUN OCT 07, 2012 AT 12:10 PM PDT

A woman does not want an abortion like she wants a flashy new car; she wants an abortion like an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg to escape.

Let's Get Real-The Basics: Extreme Religion Stops a Thinking Brain and Kills Women and Teenage Girls
by Beket

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross
- Sinclair Lewis

Abortion care providers in my state of Texas and nationwide have been under siege for over thirty five years by heavily propagandized fundamentalist Christian bullies, domestic terrorists, who know and understand little or nothing about abortion care but have swallowed whole, with neither mastication nor cogitation, the blatantly deceptive propaganda of the so-called "pro-life movement" and are convinced they know it all. The mind-numbingly outrageous Todd Akin is merely e pluribus unum.

I am a committed, proud, defiant abortion provider, and, believe me, defiance is an asset in the sociopolitical climate in which I practice abortion care.

I have often been asked why I provide abortion care, sometimes ragefully and accompanied by threats by zealous opponents of legal abortion. First, let me assure you that it is not that I love embryos and fetuses less, but that I love women and teenage girls more, although I must confess that, while I respect, support, and share any woman’s delight in a wanted pregnancy, I really have no love, nor any feeling at all, for insentient fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses in the wombs of women and teenage girls who do not want them there. The nature of fetal existence inside the body of a woman or girl is a profoundly unique and unparalleled situation in which the religious or political beliefs of others should have no right to intrude unless invited by the woman or girl herself.

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[luv_mykatz]

1. You have the best posts, kpete.

This article doesn't just hit the ball out of the park...it hits it out of our solar system! Excellent!

[BrainMann1]

2. I'm a Christian Democrat

I believe in pro-life and a womens right to choose. I have no say in what she is suppose to do. It's between her and GOD. Not her and our Government.

[gaspee]

3. Not everyone

believes in your god.

[roguevalley]

4. not every religious person cares if you do

Learning to differentiating will be go

[piratefish08]

5. her GOD? that's awful presumptive. how about it's just up to her??