Drop the bible, and back away from my uterus

I love the internet. I do. I love duckies and kittens and Netflix. What I do NOT love is essentially everything else I have to sift through to get to those wonderful things. The dragging odes to religions I do not care for, beliefs I do not share. Sure, most of the time, I just roll my eyes and flip off my computer screen, and then carry on my Google image search for “sleepy puppies”. But sometimes, and I mean very rarely, something so absolutely absurd crosses my path that I have to pipe up. I give you Exhibit A, which is a status posted less than an hour ago by a girl with whom I was previously Facebook friends (as soon as I posted my retort, I showed myself to the “delete friend” door):

“A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: ‘Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 year old and I’m pregnant again. I don’t want kids so close together. So the doctor said: ‘OK and what do you want me to do?’ She said: ‘I want you to end my pregnancy, and I’m counting on your help with this.’ The doctor thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady: ‘I think I have a better solution for your problem. It’s less dangerous for you too.’ She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request. Then he continued: ‘You see, in order for you not to have to take care 2 babies at the same time, let’s kill the one in your arms. This way, you could rest some before the other one is born. If we’re going to kill one of them, it doesn’t matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose the one in your arms. The lady was horrified and said: ‘No doctor! How terrible! It’s a crime to kill a child! ‘I agree’, the doctor replied. ‘But you seemed to be OK with it, so I thought maybe that was the best solution.’ The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. He convinced the mom that there is no difference in killing a child that’s already been born and one that’s still in the womb. The crime is the same! If you agree, please SHARE. Together we can help save precious lives! “Love says I sacrifice myself for the good of the other person. Abortion says I sacrifice the other person for the good of myself”

WHAT?!?!?!

Fucking…seriously?!?!

And this is like the…8th status of this kind that this backwoods hick woman has posted. Not to get personal, but this is the SAME “woman” who posts weepy Lifetime Movie stati about her husband telling her that “money is no concern of hers” because she doesn’t make any of her own. A real fairytale. She has…400 kids, I think, but I’m not sure how you count children when the father is a blood relative.

And now, my response:

“This is absolute, complete, utter, shameless bullshit. Total religious propaganda. It makes me physically ill that such ignorance still exists in 2011. Oh, and by the way, if your Christian cohorts would support things like…I dunno, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, we wouldn’t have so many unwanted pregnancies.  MY BODY, MY FUCKING RIGHT.”

I feel like I should not have to mention the fact that there is absolutely a difference between killing an infant and aborting a pregnancy. As women, we are responsible for making intelligent reproductive decisions, and then as adults, handling the consequences. If abortion is not right for you, if it goes against your religious beliefs, that is fine. That is your right, as a woman, as a human being. But I am a woman, too. And the morality structure that dictates your decisions does not necessarily mirror mine. It’s called diversity, and it’s not just an old, old wooden ship.

Look, I don’t care if you are anti-abortion. I encourage people to have an educated opinion, at least, and one that isn’t completely derived from chain Facebook stati, or what your toothless mother shouted at you over her crack pipe. State your case, but for the love of whatever god you pray to, SUPPORT YOUR FELLOW WOMEN! Anti-abortion, pro-choice. Such a thing exists. You do not have to agree with my decision, but it is my right, and every other woman’s right, to make it.

Notes

  1. ispeaknewsspeak reblogged this from meaganhaynes and added:
    these stupid fucking status’
  2. hellionette reblogged this from meaganhaynes
  3. actionjaxxon said: Reasons you are cool. 1. Use of the word “stati” as a plural form of “status” 2. Making an Anchorman reference while discussing a serious topic.
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