Abortion and Rape

I'm fucking sick of hearing stories about pharmacists denying rape victims (or any women for that matter) Plan B because they're on some righteous power trip and they think they own our bodies.

I read in the news today that the 11 year old girl in Romania is finally allowed to get an abortion after being raped by her uncle. Of course, idiot "pro-life" religious organizations were opposed to this. In a different article on the story, there was a quote that stated having an abortion would be more trauma she has to deal with after being raped.

Excuse me?! Who the heck are other people to judge what is and is not the best decision for a rape victim? So after a traumatic event where her bodily integrity was violated, you people want to take it away again and you think that's less traumatic? WTF?!! Nothing like controlling other people and forcing them to go through even more bodily trauma against their will to help heal them! Wow.

Women are not stupid. We are not little dollies for you to play with. We're not fucking broodmares or incubators. Our bodies are not your political tools - we're human fucking beings! We know what is best for ourselves in whatever situation we find ourselves in.

I was scared to death that I was pregnant after I was raped. So scared that I planned to kill myself if I couldn't get an abortion. The mere thought of having his spawn inside me made me feel so goddamn disgusted that I had physical reactions every time the thought popped into my mind. Lucky for me, my period showed up on demand for the first time in my life. But that's something that has stuck with me all these years and let me tell you the rage and disgust and TRAUMA it causes me when these fuckface "pro-lifers" try to convince me I was wrong by saying "It would have been part of you too!" THANKS! I really want to think about my genes mixing with his. That sooooo less traumatic and really makes me feel so much better! PUKE!

I was not too traumatized to know what I wanted. I was traumatized though. But I absolutely did NOT want to be pregnant especially from him. As far as I'm concerned, with all the other physical problems and emotional problems, there is no way in hell anyone would want to go through all that AND be pregnant at the same time so that they can deal with trauma and pregnancy hormones or physical trauma of being raped and the physical trauma of pregnancy. Or after I went through all the indignity with Mike, to have to go through the indignity of invasive pelvic exams and whatnot for 9 more months. I can't imagine having to go through all that AGAINST MY WILL. That would be horrific abuse and torture and would be 9 months of constant rape to me. Anyone who advocates forced birth after a rape-induced pregnancy is not only a fucking moron, but a goddamn sadistic, woman-hating asshole.

A few years ago, I found a study while doing rape research (to see if I was normal) on rape victim's feelings about pregnancy and abortion. I can't find it now, but I'm going to keep looking and I'll post it here when I do find it. There was a line it in that slammed another study as being purposely misleading because it was funded by Christian pro-life groups. The study stated that the overwhelming majority of rape victims who got pregnant from rape wanted abortions. Of the small percentage of rape victims who wanted to keep their pregnancies, the vast majority of them ended up miscarrying. That makes sense to me because when a person is under extreme stress, her body knows that it's not the time to get or be pregnant. Most women will not ovulate (then either skip their period or have a late period) when under stress and I know stress isn't good for pregnancy, so it makes sense that they'd miscarry in extremely stressful circumstances.

Another thing that really bothers me in the article about the Romanian article is the stance of the church. They concluded that even though they believe abortion is murder, they think she should be allowed an abortion if she wants one because of her situation. Really? 1) Be fucking consistent! 2) If that is your stance, your inconsistency shows me that opposing abortion really is all about the woman and not the fetus. If you can say "Well, it's okay to kill a baby in these circumstances...." then clearly you really don't care that much about the fetus and you care more about controlling/punish women who have sex. Her situation shouldn't matter if you believe abortion is murder.

Good Lord!

As I previously mentioned, I moved my personal and pet posts to another blog. The blog host likes to showcase interesting posts by random people on their entry page and this is what I saw a couple of days ago:

No-Boys-Allowed
In just one day Tara M and some friends were able to put together a cute playhouse for her three girls. Check out the pictures of the future she-woman man haters club.

The post is on a woman's personal blog to show how she and her husband (and their friends) built a backyard playhouse for their daughter. There is one blurb where the mother wrote "I hope this becomes their little girls-only clubhouse." And that is the caption the blog hosts chose to write about her post. WTF?!!
I've never heard someone call a little boy's club house that specified "no girls allowed" described as "the future he-man woman haters club"

Now I'm out of time. I'll have to finish this later.

I never want to move again

I don't have internet access until next week.