Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Slippery slope my ... bum.

Thanks to Wess for pointing me to this piece on HuffPo, which makes it clear that the "slippery slope" that comes from preventing a woman's choice in the matter of abortion is actually more like a steep incline.  In the piece, Soraya Chemaly discusses statements by a Georgia Republican State legislator who supports a law that would force pregnant women to carry a fetus to full term or 'natural' birth.  His justification?  Pigs and cows do it.  No, I'm not (and Soroya isn't) making that up and that's not taken out of context.  He said that life gives us many lessons and one of those that he's experienced is delivering stillbirth cows and pigs and it "breaks your heart" when those animals don't make it.  He literally compared women - their bodies, their emotions, and their psychological welfare - to cattle.  Let me give you a hint:  lots of things that we have already tried to put an end to.

By the way, he goes on to talk about a "salt of the Earth kind of [person]" who once said they'd give up all the chickens they use for cock fighting (though I guess they do chicken fighting?) if only Georgia would outlaw abortion.  Because women aren't salt of the Earth, so our opinion matters less and, apparently, we should give up our own ability to make choices logically and with full knowledge and consent just so we can save chickens from the cruelty of cock-fights.  Because those two things should be related.

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