Just read this over at WBIR.  And, sadly, it pretty much fits with exactly what I have long believed to be the truth about the Pro-Life movement.  I’m sure more than a few of you who read that are simply amazed that the only person who doesn’t support this research is the Right to Life activist, but I’m not.  Instead, his reaction of negativity and suspicion at the survey results lets me know I’m right.  Because, for many years I’ve believed that a large portion of the Right to Life movement isn’t so much about saving babies.  Instead, I think their focus is more toward punishing all of those "Whore of Babylon" mothers who made their birth control choice when they spread their legs and got themselves into that condition to begin with.  I know, shocking, that good Christians would judge like that.  But they do.  I can truly and honestly tell you, they do.  The phrase "making your birth control decision when you spread your legs was actually spoken to me by a former member of the Knox County Commission.  And, the comments I got last week on my Obama posts are more evidence of the crazies that inhabit that movement.  If you don’t believe me, then email me, I’ll send you copies.

To be clear and upfront, for the three people who might not yet know this, I am most assuredly Pro-Choice.  For a number of reasons, but mainly because I feel that the day we open the doors to our Doctor’s offices up to governmental regulations and allow the government to tell us what we can do with our bodies, is only one day before the Government tells us what we can’t do with our reproductive rights.  I’m referring to China, where there is federal law in place that prevents more than one child per family.  Yes, dear readers, taking away a woman’s right to reproductive freedom and putting it in the hands of the government has the potential to go in a completely different direction than originally planned if that right is put in the hands of the wrong government.  And, though you might not think so given the last eight years, our country was founded for and about freedom.  And having choices is part of the responsibility of freedom.  Even if we don’t agree with the choices our fellow Americans make, like all those fools in Galveston.  But we’re free to make bad decisions.  People do it every day.  And then we have to live with the consequences that follow.  It’s as simple as that. 

Regarding reproductive rights and choices, for some of you it may come as a shock to learn that as a dedicated member of the Pro-Choice movement, I am not pro-abortion.  In fact, almost none of the people I know who share my beliefs are pro-abortion.  Actually, most all Pro-Choice advocates like myself look at abortion as the last choice that any of us would ever want to make, for ourselves or any of the girls and women in my life.  However, as realists, we know that things happen that you don’t plan for.  Pills fail.  Condoms break.  Stupidity happens.  And, if you have no other choices, no support group, no healthcare, no place to live, no way to feed or clothe a child, then your choices are limited indeed.  If your minimum wage job offers no insurance, no maternity leave, and no child care assistance, what other choice do you have?  If you are young and scared, or poor, or both, then sometimes there really isn’t any other choice.  To be frank, I want to see the day when I am truly living in a world where our girls and women are given real choices.  Choices like a real sex education (like my step-daughter gets at the private school she attends).  Choices like real options for continuing your education and not being left illiterate if you make an error in judgement.  Yes, a child is more than a choice, but if you have no tools for caring for it or raising it then it becomes simply a problem.  I want to live in a world where having a child isn’t a problem, isn’t a poorly disguised punishment for some perceived moral failing of it’s Mother.  And that’s why I am Pro-Choice, just like my Mother and her Mother before her.  But, as I learn more, I’ve come to realize that quite a few people in the Pro-Life movement are anything but that.  Because, if they were truly Pro-Life, then they’d be the ones leading the research and coming forward with the assistance programs for all women so that they wouldn’t ever have to choose abortion again.  But they aren’t.  They’re only concern is the biology part of the equation.  They don’t care about the life that child is born into, or the mother whose life  is permanently interrupted because of the birth of that child.  So the next time somebody says to you "I’m Pro-Life", ask them what being "Pro-Life" really means.  Be prepared, the answer will shock you.  

ZOMG!  They’ve done it again down there in the heart of Dixie!  Don’t believe me?  Then read this and this and laugh along with me.  Yep, it’s July and that means it’s time for another twisted sister mister to come prancing out of his walk-in closet somewhere down in Alabama.  You know, the Anti-Sex Capitol of the US?  Um yeah.  But, as you’ll read if you click the link, this isn’t just any fundi in ladies undies… oh no kiddies.  This here particular switch-hitter is the AG of the great state of Alabama.  The same one that has led the fight against the sale of sex toys in Alabama, in fact.  And apparently it was this guy and Rev. Aldridge that were using the most of that product in their home state.  Something about "squealing the loudest" fits here, doncha’ think?     

OBTW – if you have a strong stomach and really want the full effect of the funny in this then you need to play the Youtube video.  I’m sure John Prine enjoys it as much as I just did.  Of course it’s NSFW and it’s not for kids but it’s funny as… oh, funny as another fundi being caught in bed with the Homecoming King of Troy State by his not-too-amused wife who came home too early.  Yeah, funny as all that, and a bag of chips.