For Life and Rights

Oh, the irony of those who don’t believe a woman has the right to make reproductive decisions regarding a pregnancy and her unique circumstances, those who “defend life” at any cost to the woman who’s actually affected – Without fail, those are most often of the republican persuasion, and the religious persuasion to boot.  They act as if they are crusaders for life, although the life of the woman and women’s rights be damned. Follow their path – as a whole, (but there are of course always exceptions), they do not support so much of life on the ground – the mother and eventual child if they aren’t able to take care of themselves, just look at our homeless population, our starving children, our orphans who aren’t adopted, our children born of addiction and abandoned, our mentally ill left to fend for themselves, life if that life might come from another country seeking safety from a repressed and violent existence, (BUILD THE WALL) they do not support life if that life is what they call “sucking off the system”, they do not support life if the person they chose to love doesn’t meet their comfort levels.

Right now in Alabama they do not support the well being and life of the woman, no matter how young! if she’s been raped, incestually or otherwise. There are more than 3,000 homeless people in Alabama every day. Why aren’t the “pro-lifers” taking them in? There are 266,000 children living in poverty in Alabama alone!  Many of them go hungry on a daily basis – why aren’t we feeding the children? I laugh when those people feign religion. I laugh when republicans say that want less government interfering in their life… and yet they believe a woman’s body should be the exception. If you’re a woman and you follow that cult, shaking my head here.

I am truly pro life – and pro choice – I don’t believe in late term abortion and that’s true of most women, just look at the actual statistics. I believe women to be capable of making decisions for themselves with their own body and circumstances. Because we have already proved as a society we aren’t gonna do the job for them or truly help them, no, we’ve failed miserably at that. Because I don’t have to have experienced rape or incest or the horror of a dying or severely deformed fetus or any other awful medical crisis to have sympathy for the woman in that position, and I don’t believe your or I have a right to hold her up in the medical decisions she and her doctor have to make in horrible circumstances. Because I don’t practice whatever your religion is – and there are over 400, and I believe in science – and that a cluster of cells at the beginning of a pregnancy are just that – with the POTENTIAL for life, but not yet viable life. I believe in taking care of babies after they are born,  not dumping them at the proverbial altar.

That any part of this country is reverting when it comes to women’s rights is pathetic. All women should be alarmed, no matter what your stance on abortion. And if you still can’t see the forest for the trees, may your God help you should you ever find yourself in one of those awful situations above. Because your chosen republican lawmakers won’t.

Not a democrat, not a fucking snowflake. I’m a believer in freedom to have control over our bodies, our decisions, our circumstances, our chosen religion or non religion. I believe in compassion, empathy, and assistance for those who need it, the life WITH BOOTS ALREADY ON THE GROUND.

First, let’s kill all the hypocrisy