So a woman whom I like and respect whom I knew a little when they were living in the area put up a brilliant post the other day that I shared. Here it is:
So next comes this guy on my blog’s Facebook page:
This guy doesn’t get to tell ME or any woman how to think and how to choose. So he can keep his “pulling out” mentality…dude you can’t bake a cake without batter. And if he had any reading comprehension skills he would have also realized that the author of the post I shared was not just talking about PA women- I mean, there actually are 50 states and 16 territories in this country, correct?
And speaking of unprotected sex, what about a man’s responsibility there?
Women in PA and all across America are trying to preserve their rights to choose. That basic right encompasses other rights. That is a proxy for freedom. Period, end of story.
Next comes a Republican woman whom I think is very nice. She feels the need to remind me that in Pennsylvania you can get an abortion up to 24 weeks and that “many people don’t know that.”
Oh really?
Please don’t start with me. Women across this country are fighting to make sure that they preserve their rights to choose. And it might be legal in some states, but it depends if you can get one and if you need one do you have to cross a picket line of crazies with dead baby signs? What about the emotional damage that does? Or telling women they can afford what they know they can’t afford? It’s always like they’re putting it all on the woman because they’re also trying to get rid of birth control as well.
Joey Fortman wrote a brilliant post and this guy crawled out from under a rock and I am not having it. And I’m also tired in general of people telling you how you should think, how you should write, what you should be saying, and essentially how you should put your underwear on.
Politicians along with those in either clerical or judicial robes should not not be involved with very personal decisions between a woman and her doctors and her family. Whatever the decision is, it’s no one’s business except the individual woman.
Very personal story. Someone I know was a little too young for certain testing when she got pregnant. she went in for a routine ultrasound, and they saw something. While she was grappling with what the diagnosis meant, the baby died in utero. It was past 24 weeks. This woman back then was torn apart because while she was deciding. Does she gamble and the baby is born on life-support, and then dies, or terminates the pregnancy? Because the diagnosis was terminal either way. If a lot of these men and women telling us what we can and can’t do with our bodies had had their way back then, she would’ve had to have carried a baby dead in her womb to term, and then delivered it. And that was assuming there wouldn’t be any other complications, which you cannot predict in situations like this.
So I feel very strongly about this because you’re not just talking about the obvious you’re talking about the things that aren’t so obvious. You’re talking about specifically medically necessary moments in life.
I never had children of my own, health issues prevented it. So for me, this never would be an issue, yet I don’t want any woman losing her right to choose. It really is our bodies our choices. 
And then getting back to the screenshot that I showed at the beginning with this guy and then he’s talking about cures for cancer? First of all, he doesn’t have a crystal ball and second of all I am a cancer survivor so don’t Cro-Magnon mansplain to me about cancer or where you think the cure might come from. I’m still a woman with a right to choose what’s best for her own body. It’s offensive.
Again, Women in PA and all across America are trying to preserve their rights to choose. That basic right encompasses other rights. That is a proxy for freedom. Period, end of story.
More about Vance by clicking HERE. My last word is considering his life as portrayed in Hillbilly Elegy, it’s a little shocking that he isn’t more accepting shall we say?
You don’t have to like my opinions, but our founding fathers and the First Amendment allow it.
