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Whither fetus?
Not that we don’t have more important topics these days, but I see that right wing blogs are all excited about the recent (gruesome) story of a pregnant woman who was killed, whose abdomen was cut off and the 8-months foetus extracted by a deranged woman, but the baby miraculously survived. The argument is, of course, “if it survived, it must have been alive”!
For some background, see this CNN story and this NY Post story about it. The WSJ’s Opinion Journal makes a lot of hay of the fact that the baby is alternatively called a “foetus” or a “girl”, thus supposedly underlying the moral shallowness of the SCLM (or supporting the fact that they are the same thing).
Am I crazy to think that (i) it was a foetus while in its mother’s womb, (ii) it became a baby girl because it survived (and not the other way round) and (iii) the poor father and his baby have lost a wife/mother and this story is tragic and should not be politicised?
Why is the debate on abortion so sterile in the US? Why can’t a law be voted on the topic like in most other “civilised” countries, to make it “safe, legal, and rare”?
Abortions are only legal in America until the fetus is viable outside the womb ~end of 2nd trimester. After that only to safeguard the life of the Woman – ie, if something went horribly wrong w/the pregnancy.
The reason it’s so insane in America is cuz there is NO debate at all. It’s the opening salvo in a War Against Women being conducted by virulent woman hating males – pedophiles, closeted homosexuals, etc. backed by the institutional power & money of the patriarchal churches. Abortion is so accepted by most people & virtually all women, that 12% of the abortions in America every year are by women who are anti-abortion. Tragically, they’re so male-dominated that they don’t understand the issue til they get pregnant when it would be disastrous for them to have a child. Then they do what every other sane woman does at a time like that.
The happy news is that the Premier Anti-woman fascist rabble rouser in America, none other than Rushbo himself, is being outed….. Hating women that much & 4 marriages…..obviously he was gay….it was just a question of time…..Found link to this on the Democrats.com blog. Please circulate as widely as possible so we can get rid of the vile pig.
ST. LOUIS MAN CLAIMS RUSH LIMBAUGH AFFAIR
A 46 year old music store owner from the St. Louis area, Elliot Sanders, is claiming that while a college student at Southeast Missouri University in 1971, he had an affair with Rush Limbaugh. Sanders claims that he and Limbaugh, the well known talk radio star, had an affair that went on for about 3 months in the fall of 1971…
Sanders stated that he met Limbaugh in a class he was taking, but it was only after meeting his sister, who was openly gay at that time, that he found out Rush himself was gay. “Rush was a charming man privately,” says Sanders, “I met him in a class I was taking, and got on a first name basis with him. I didn’t realize he was gay until his sister came to visit him. She was gay, and like, we hit it off, and she seemed shocked that I didn’t know Rush was gay as well. When I found out I was like … wow!”
Sanders says that privately, Limbaugh was very sensitive and caring man, but that he was furiously angry that KFBK, the top 40 radio station he worked while still in high school would not offer him a full time job.
“He was furious about that,” said Sanders, “And he often told me that he was really going to show them.” According to Sanders, Rush’s politics at the time were somewhat middle of the road. “Rush said that he though most people are incredibly gullible, and he felt that the key to radio programming was to reach that crowd, and that it would be really, really easy. He thought he thought he could get anyone to believe anything he said, and the more outrageous is was, the more they would believe it.”
When asked when he thought Limbaugh “went straight,” Sanders replied, “What are you talking about? I mean, he’s been married four times now, do people really not get why he doesn’t stay married? I guarantee none of those marriages was ever consummated.”
Sanders would not divulge any further details, but when asked if he feared retaliation from Limbaugh for his revelations, he stated, “No, Rush wouldn’t do that, he’s really a sweetie at heart, but some of the people who listen to him might. I think most of them are psychotic. I don’t think these people realize he’s just pandering to them for ratings, but if they find out, I wouldn’t want to be there.”
Link to Above Art.
Link to Dem. blog
As we used to say @Whiskey Bar, Champagne for all on the House tonight!!
(Maybe it’s bullshit, but that’s a reputable blog, so here’s hoping!! Though I do wish he’s called the supposed lover up personally to confirm. Either the guy doesn’t exist at all, he’s literally psychotic, or I figure it’s true as I can’t imagine anybody crazy or rich enough, to make it up!!)
Posted by: jj | Dec 30 2004 7:43 utc | 4
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