It takes a village to raise a child, but selfish parents will often insist on going it alone and raising their children themselves. It is from these religious fanatics that millions of desperate young girls flee every year; battered, abused and, more often than not, impregnated by their Christian Conservative fathers. With nowhere else to go, they turn to one of the nation’s many Reproductive Rights Centers, holy places where they can find sanctuary from the inhuman monsters who spawned them. Now, evangelical Republicans want to take that safety net away from them. Citing a few rare examples of parents who deeply love their daughters and want to be informed should they undergo any invasive medical procedures, anti-choice extremists in Congress threaten to ruin abortion for everyone.
They are hypocrites to the extreme, hiding behind a nonexistent “Right to Know” to subvert an adolescent girl’s constitutional Right to Choose. A “Right to Know” seems innocuous enough, but what if your precious little angel got knocked up from banging the entire Bob Jones Middle School Bible Club and a Shetland pony for cheap thrills and a tube of Bryl Cream? Would you want to know then? Do you really want to be subjected to that kind of embarrassment? Of course not. That’s why laws against parental notification are so important – they are designed to protect not only children from their parents, but parents from their children.
“Abortion” as some call it, is an important part of a young girl’s transformation into a grown woman. There comes a time when parents must cut the apron strings and “let go” of their baby, so that she may spread her wings as well as her legs. The bill that Bush just crammed through Congress will essentially clip those wings, and brutally saw off both her legs, leaving her a disfigured monstrosity unwanted and unloved by anyone, crawling down the gutter on her bloated belly to the local back-alley abortion clinic to be carved up by a chronic alcoholic with a rusty spatula.
Right-wing polemicists should think about that before weaving any more hyberbolic fairy tales about a parent’s “Right-to-Know”.
What ever happened to other readers wanting to be first?
Posted by: Che | July 25, 2006 at 08:51 PM
Teeny Bopper??? Do people still use this term? I mean, geez, exactly how old is the professor?
Posted by: Fist of Etiquette | July 25, 2006 at 09:07 PM
Anyway, the last time I checked, the 14th Amendment guarantees all citizens the Right to an Abortion, regardless of age, race or gender.
Unless we're all of the sudden putting up a sign next to the Bill of Rights that says you have to be "this tall" to exercise total control over your body - and any other body that might be in there - then everyone needs to take a chill pill.
And to be effective, you need to take this pill up to 72 hours after you think you may have become unchilled.
Posted by: Fist of Etiquette | July 25, 2006 at 09:24 PM
18 and 19 year olds are "teeny boppers"; they've got a right to choose...
Posted by: camojack | July 25, 2006 at 10:34 PM
"There comes a time when parents must cut the apron strings and “let go” of their baby"
And, there's no time like before birth to perform this magical procedure.
Posted by: Kiki B. | July 26, 2006 at 12:42 AM
This is bad news for the MySpace crowd!!!
Posted by: Bush4Ever | July 26, 2006 at 04:54 AM
Bush is such a Rethug. I know most parents would rather be in denial about their offspring's repro activities, but forcing his will and having congress mandate it is equivalent to imperialist aggression.
Meany.
Posted by: Cricket | July 26, 2006 at 05:04 AM
LibLarry;
"Abortion” as some call it, is an important part of a young girl’s transformation into a grown woman. There comes a time when parents must cut the apron strings and “let go” of their baby, so that she may spread her wings as well as her legs"
Well, now we know which other carttel of fat capitalist bastards have the Chimpy in their pockets, don't we?
http://www.unitedwirehanger.com/pics/maxi_480x400.jpg
Regards;
Posted by: Bilgeman | July 26, 2006 at 06:18 AM
Excellent points Bilgeman! I mean, why would anyone want one of these when they could do this instead!?
I'm convinced KKKonservatives are evil incarnate!!
Posted by: Arbiter | July 26, 2006 at 09:52 AM
Ughhh....Arbiter...that picture is OBSCENE!..
Doesn't ANYONE care about Overpopulation???...more mouths to feed.
Is the other medical art piece from a Planned Parenthoodlum brochure??
Posted by: Rocky Mtn Lioness | July 26, 2006 at 11:57 AM
About those pics, Arbi--
....1st thing that came to mind w/that obscene picture is: "UGH! Breeders (like your Marine Breeder Brother)!!They should be SHOT"
The other one I think is obviously from a "Healing Arts Art" Gallery.
Posted by: Rocky Mtn Lioness | July 26, 2006 at 12:07 PM
RML, damn right! I'm trying to get a T-shirt made! The front will say "This is your life with a right to choose" [picture #2] on the back: "With your right to choose taken away like Bu$Hitler wants, you would have to RAISE ONE OR MORE OF THESE:" [picture #2]
That will show those hideously cruel neo-cons!!
Posted by: Arbiter | July 26, 2006 at 12:26 PM
Oh Arbiter--
I can't tell you what my heart felt..how tears came to my eyes when I saw those those unaborted feti. They looked so unhappy to have been FORCED to be born!
Won't ANYONE think of the children??
Posted by: Rocky Mtn. Lioness | July 26, 2006 at 12:51 PM
I have to share this horror story with you RML... I've been around unaborted feti, and the cooing will drive you mad.... They poop, drool, grab my car keys, and generally are living crawling parasites on Al Gore's failing Earth.... There truly is no hope...
Posted by: Arbiter | July 26, 2006 at 01:01 PM
Arbi,
I don't blame you for one second if you'd be TERRIBLY ashamed to admit that some of those pictured, missed opportunities for Planned Parenthood, feti are "connected"to your kin...the disgusting ones of which you speak.
Posted by: Rocky Mtn. Lioness | July 26, 2006 at 01:05 PM
RML... how on Gaia's Earth did you know!? It's like you can see into my soul! Err.. I mean soul as in "soul food" or "soul sista"... I'm not religious, I promise!!
Posted by: Arbiter | July 26, 2006 at 01:37 PM
Oh, it's OK if you talk about soul...there's soul food, hey sistah' go sistah' soul sistah' go sistah'..he met Marmalade down in New Orleans...err...uhm...I mean..
Anyhoo...it's not like this "God" of the KKKristians came up with the whole (soul) idea ya know. I feel that's a Darwinininian copyrighted concept.
My frequent trips under Lar's sink and bong hits have enhanced my memory and mental note taking. I remember some personal ethinicity type of comments you've made..So then when I saw other "comments" pictures and pages at that one, I put 2 and 2½ together
I just have ways of finding things out. SSSHHHHH!!...but I always try to stay one step ahead of the NSA.
And besides..how hard is it to spot the "byproducts" of a breeder babykiller who beats up his brother all the time?
Posted by: Rocky Mtn. Lioness | July 26, 2006 at 01:58 PM
I just wanted to correct an error I see often... people use the term "Gaia's Earth" but this is actually a reduncy. Gaia IS Earth. And Earth is Mother. And Mother is Gaia. They are all One. But separate. And not in any way meant to be analagous to the father, son and holy spirit.
I hope that clears things up.
Posted by: Vishnu Troll Daddy Earth Goddess | July 26, 2006 at 02:18 PM
Vishnu, I think "Gaia's Earth" simply refers to "Gaia's dirt" with which our loving Earth Mother sustains our beloved Ecosystems, using her magic powers of Biodiversity.
Posted by: Red Loser | July 26, 2006 at 07:52 PM
seriously...you make me laugh so hard.
Posted by: david quijano | July 27, 2006 at 09:46 AM
In that case, "earth" shouldn't be capitalized. As a proper noun, "Earth" refers to the name of the galactic space vessel in which Gaia, the Mother, has assumed Her Physical Form. As a general noun, "earth" means the nurturing soil GaiaEarthMother provides for Her children. I knew that second Ph.D. in Womyn's Literature, with all the required grammar study, would pay off.
Posted by: Vishnu Troll Daddy Earth Goddess | July 27, 2006 at 02:44 PM
And don't forget the "k" at the end of "magick." Without it, the word takes on a whole different hegemonous anti-Semetic misogynist meaning, like the way Chimpy McDumbya Bu$Hitler's precious WMD's disappeared, as if by "magic."
Posted by: Vishnu Troll Daddy Earth Goddess | July 27, 2006 at 02:47 PM
Yes, and shetland ponies are very nasty and mean. And they never call you back.
Posted by: Senator Edward Kennedy | July 29, 2006 at 09:41 PM
Is there a school that turns out people that think like you...were you born on the same planet I live on?
Posted by: Norman Emerson | August 15, 2006 at 06:41 AM
What ever happened to your brain?
Posted by: markie | January 18, 2008 at 04:23 PM