Forced-Birth Update: “Personhood” Is The Next Battle
September 30, 2009 in Forced Birth Movement
There may be no more polarizing issue in American politics than whether the state should have the power to force a woman to carry her pregnancy to term.
Why this ought to be “polarizing” is frankly beyond me, but suffice it to say that there seems to be a lot of people in this country who would like to see women give birth while chained to a hospital bed.
If you follow this issue at all, then you know that the forced-birth movement is planning on making “personhood” the focus of its next big legislative push.
That cumbath scene? Not integral.
Here’s something you probably didn’t know about me: my heritage (or at least the part that makes up the majority of my DNA) hails from Denmark. I don’t know if this helps explain my taste for Scandinavian acts, but it certainly does help explain my pale white skin and my obsessive attitude towards beard growing.
A number of years ago the American Beef Council or some purveyor of fine meats used the saying “Give the Gift of Meat” as a holiday sales campaign slogan. Those of us with somewhat juvenile senses of humor thought that was incredibly funny.
1) In high school, I used to clip pictures of female celebrities out of my grandmother’s Star, National Enquirer, and other celebrity rags, and tape them to the wall next to my bed. The most clipped? Valerie Bertinelli. Second: Brooke Shields. Third: Jaclyn Smith.
The G-20 economic summit is taking place in Pittsburgh.
Do you love gambling? Even better— do you like gambling to lose? Wall Street sure as hell does! Obviously we all know this, because the system, as it is set up, is doomed to fail. This is old news, even to the laymen. Everybody, whether on the right or left, ran around all over the place holding signs high in the air and screaming loudly for no reason at all. At least we thought we had a reason though, as that is all that matters to our generally dim-witted way of life. No matter what we all believed to be true, the system didn’t change— and it deserves a little overview. Let’s explore, one and all! Make sure you break out the bourbon. This is a depressing picture.
