My body

(So it's been a while...oops.)

I am just stunningly appalled with this nation and its reaction to women as child-bearers. Yes, it is incumbent upon us, the hardier sex, to keep the world turning by having progeny. Because of this burden, and biological fact, having sexual intercourse with a man requires some care in order to not become a Duggar. This responsibility should be shared between consensual, adult partners, whether it is splitting the cost of birth control pills, condoms, IUDs, or being abstinent. Unfortunately, sometimes things go awry: birth control fails, women are raped, poverty befalls a family or parent unable to care for one more. Whatever the reason, an abortion is a viable option. Terminating a pregnancy within the first trimester is a right that was brutally fought for in this nation in the 1970s, culminating in a win in 1973 that we call Roe vs. Wade. Your opinions about a fetus as a viable life are fine as long as you keep them to yourself and your body. A woman's body, and the fetus inside it, which is unable to survive in the outside world until it has reached at least 5 months gestation, is hers alone. No one gets to stick anything in a woman's anywhere without her explicit permission. Many conservatives seem to think that women who entertain abortion just stroll into a clinic and have a procedure as easy as taking a bath. This is absolutely ridiculous. Nearly every woman who decides to abort a fetus has thought long and hard about the repercussions of having a child in her life, or in someone else's. It is not an easy decision to come to, and I am thankful that I haven't had to make that decision. Shoving a probe up a woman's vagina is repulsive, medically unnecessary and could cause far more trauma to a woman than looking at an ultrasound of her fetus. This legislation of morality is precisely the gateway to lead to backalley abortions, a growing poverty rate among women and children, and other consequences not felt by conservative male lawmakers who have a penis. I suggest that we shove a probe into the anuses of all men who would like Viagra. Medically unnecessary? You betcha.