Abortion

as i'm sure you have already seen/heard/read how different states in the USA are trying to control people who can have babies (women/non-binary/transgender) by having their constitutional right of having an abortion taken away. this is a bunch of crap.

ABORTION IS HEALTHCARE.

it doesn't matter why you are getting the abortion. it doesn't matter if you are getting your 5th abortion or your 1st. abortion is healthcare and no one can tell you how to take care of your body. you can think of abortion however you want, but don't you dare tell me or anyone else how we should take care of our body.

this is completely about control and not about 'life'. if it was about taking care of life then what about undocumented immigrants, people killed in interactions with the police, school children that are shot, addicts who overdose, death row inmates, people who need health insurance - all of these people have lives also. but the same people who cry 'it's about stopping murder, and life is so special', don't care about those people. all they care about is controlling the people who can have children.

how this is about control, sadly there are many examples of this. 1)by making abortion a federal crime, any person who has an abortion and/or the doctor who preforms the abortion get convicted of the crime, when they are out of jail, they will not be able to vote. 2)when the law is written that the people who rapes me goes to jail shorter then the doctor who does the abortion. 3)by having the laws written that not only is it against the law for me to have an abortion, it's also against the law to have birth control. 4)when the law is written that there aren't any exceptions even for the life of the person who is pregnant. so if i'm pregnant and i'm dying (for whatever reason: cancer, pregnancy its self), i cannot have an abortion. these are just a small sample of the laws that have been passed by different states in the USA.

my feeling for all of this is just rage. who do these people think they are to tell me and other people how they can take care of their body. its my body not theirs. so in my rage i found an image and just knew i had to embroider it. it expresses everything i think about these laws that are getting passed. stop telling me what to do with my body. i won't tell you what to do with your body.

go and vote!

to many people today voting seems so normal, lame, not something to even think about; kind of thing. the generation that died to give us the right to vote, is long and dead. i doubt we can even make out the writing on their tomb stones. but fight and die they did. and it wasn't for nothing, it was to give us many rights that we now take for granted. it gives us many rights the people in other countries are just NOW getting. so today i'm going to do what my fellow countrymen - many years ahead of me - died for. i'm going to go out and vote today. and you should do. i don't care who you vote for (well i do, but i'm not going to tell you your wrong, or how horrible of a person you are for not voting how i think you should) but vote you should. it's a right that had to be fought for and died for. go and vote!

new abortion laws

i was reading a new york times article and they were pointing out different abortion laws in the states. and i just wanted to point out some of the new crazy laws. for those of you who don't know, i'm very pro choice. i'm not for abortions, but i'm for the choice of what to do to my own body. it's my choice not anyone elses.

In Alabama, they would require women to the ultrasound before they have an abortion and to have the screen face the woman while the doctor narrates the images, although the law states that it should not be “construed to prevent a pregnant woman from averting her eyes,” the bill reads. in alabama, doctors who do not follow the prescribed routines could face felony charges and could be sued by the potential father and grandparents. Dr. Pippa Abston, a pediatrician in Huntsville, objected to what she said were unnecessary roadblocks to a legal procedure. “As a physician I don’t like the idea that they are going to micromanage my medical practice,” she said. - i can't believe that they can make it so that the potential father/grandparents can sue the dr. that's just outrageous! who are they to say what should happen between the woman and that dr. and i would like to know how legislators know what's best for what the dr should talk about with their patient.

In Mississippi, a bill working its way through committee requires an ultrasound that provides an image of high quality, which cannot be achieved with abdominal procedures in the initial months of pregnancy. which means, a vaginal probe ultrasound would be required. The woman must be offered a chance to see the image and hear the fetal heartbeat. She cannot avoid hearing a description of the sonogram unless, among other things, she is a victim of sexual assault or incest or the fetus is medically compromised. - again i can't believe how they are going to regulate what the dr should say to the woman. and a vaginal probe ultrasound, is not a fun thing and should not be required. a normal abdominal ultrasound should be enough to get the information that the dr needs. and really, the dr should be the judge of what ultrasound he/she needs to have; NOT legistlation.

Labeled the Women’s Right to Know Act in pennsylvania, the bill is opposed by the Pennsylvania Medical Society and other medical groups. But it has been approved by a House committee and its sponsors hope for passage this year. - i find this interesting that the dr community is against the bill but the House committee has approved it. again who are they to say what should happen in the dr's office. i think the dr should be the one to worry about that.

michigan jobs

i was reading an article in the new york times about the primary voting for the republican canadites and they gave a statistic regarding michicgan's job loss that i thought i would share. yesterday voters were polled to see how many people had lost their jobs in their household in the last 3 years. ''About 3 in 10 Michigan voters said someone in their household had lost a job in the last three years, according to surveys of voters conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool of television networks and The Associated Press.'' i couldn't believe that statistic. that's a lot of people losing jobs. and it's very recently.