Politics ahead - Rage and sorrow
Jan. 24th, 2005 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsNothing like a little news to make the problems of your life look so utterly trivial.
First up, we have the winner for Oy Vey of the Day in the anti-Roe/Wade counterprotest - Focus on the Family's Post-Abortion Grandparents Kit. If there's one thing that the childfree groups I'm on harp on constantly (actually, there are about three things, but this is one of 'em) it's the vile notion that daughters were born for the express purpose of pumping out grandkids regardless of whether said daughters WANT to have children. So here's a little more guilt and manipulation, under the helpful guise of letting meddling granny "overcome post-abortion syndrome in your daughter."
On the same page is a book that complains that abortion is a "hidden grief" and promises to make a world where women don't have to "hide their pain." Except I haven't seen anything hidden, considering that the anti-choice people trot out the women who regret their abortions like trained ponies at every opportunity, simultaneously punishing them by making them confess again AND whoring out their pain for the edutainment of the crowded masses. Would you like a little bread with your circuses, Mr. Dobson?
And then, there's this graphic photo. (CAUTION: very graphic and disturbing!)
Yes, I know her parents ignored the warnings to stop the damn car. Yes, I know they're in a war zone. Yes, I know about all the car bombings. I'm not saying there's a clear-cut right and wrong here; the soldiers had to do *something.* But did they have to do THAT something?
Damnit, that little girl could be me. Not that I live in that situation, but that she looks just like me at that age. I have pictures. Only in mine, I'm not shrieking in horror and covered with my parent's blood while surrounded by the soldiers who shot them in front of me.
Tell me again about slam dunks, Mr. Tenet. Tell me again about hearts and minds, Mr. Rumsfeld. And Mr. President, please remind me - what mission has been accomplished?
First up, we have the winner for Oy Vey of the Day in the anti-Roe/Wade counterprotest - Focus on the Family's Post-Abortion Grandparents Kit. If there's one thing that the childfree groups I'm on harp on constantly (actually, there are about three things, but this is one of 'em) it's the vile notion that daughters were born for the express purpose of pumping out grandkids regardless of whether said daughters WANT to have children. So here's a little more guilt and manipulation, under the helpful guise of letting meddling granny "overcome post-abortion syndrome in your daughter."
On the same page is a book that complains that abortion is a "hidden grief" and promises to make a world where women don't have to "hide their pain." Except I haven't seen anything hidden, considering that the anti-choice people trot out the women who regret their abortions like trained ponies at every opportunity, simultaneously punishing them by making them confess again AND whoring out their pain for the edutainment of the crowded masses. Would you like a little bread with your circuses, Mr. Dobson?
And then, there's this graphic photo. (CAUTION: very graphic and disturbing!)
Yes, I know her parents ignored the warnings to stop the damn car. Yes, I know they're in a war zone. Yes, I know about all the car bombings. I'm not saying there's a clear-cut right and wrong here; the soldiers had to do *something.* But did they have to do THAT something?
Damnit, that little girl could be me. Not that I live in that situation, but that she looks just like me at that age. I have pictures. Only in mine, I'm not shrieking in horror and covered with my parent's blood while surrounded by the soldiers who shot them in front of me.
Tell me again about slam dunks, Mr. Tenet. Tell me again about hearts and minds, Mr. Rumsfeld. And Mr. President, please remind me - what mission has been accomplished?
