Potpourri

It's been a while, but I'm not quite sure what I want to talk about, there is just so much.

First of all, I guess I should say that currently there is a piece of legislation that is trying to change the definition of rape. This is being brought up because some Conservative Republicans do not want to have their tax dollars paying for a woman's abortion. They believe abortion is wrong, so they do not want their money supporting it. Well, I understand. EXCEPT changing the definition of rape is just, for lack of any other word, STUPID. The bill would establish "Forcible Rape" as only "forced," like physically forced. So if any woman is under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or even, the "DATE RAPE DRUG" it doesn't count as rape and therefore the woman cannot get her abortion paid for by the government.

O.K. so we're willing to put women through physical, emotional, and mental harm because art of the population doesn't want to pay for an abortion that could possibly save her life? Alright....

Jon Stewart, a man very close to my heart, and Kristen Schaal, a woman I aspire to be, discuss their opinions about this, too. Please watch and enjoy.


Now, as made quite clear in bell hook's book, Feminism is for Everybody, "losing ground on the issue of legal, safe, and inexpensive abortion means that women lose ground on all reproductive issues." If women do not have the power to control what happens to their own bodies, how can the government say they have freedom? How can there be equality? Simple: there can't...

The need for proper sex education, birth control, and safe/ legal abortions is QUITE important to the feminist cause, as well as humanity; without the ability to control whether or not you (a woman) want to be pregnant, there is no liberty, no choice, and that is slavery. A woman has to answer to the government for her OWN pregnancy. She can't plan, can't choose, she is a slave to the opinion of others.

Come on people, it's time to change. Let's not go backwards in time. It's time to advance. Sex education is needed for safety; birth control for prevention; and abortion for the times just in case.