The Slippery Slope of Personhood

Election day is over... finally!  I couldn't be more happy since I was working on a local political campaign the last couple months and it was starting to take a toll on me.  Politics are so harsh! And I thought blogging was bad!


Anyway!

In Mississippi the extreme right wing nut jobs who will do anything to stop abortion took measures into their own hands by sponsoring a bill somehow... which would have allowed a fertilized egg to be considered an actual person at conception.   Essentially ending any and all rights the uterus carrying it would have had.


Yeah, the woman... the woman who has the right to make her own medical decisions regarding prenatal care, birth, or of course terminating the pregnancy.  Which would have all been taken away by this bill.

Those who were supporting this bill didn't take into account that women who miscarried could legally have been charged with crimes, infertility treatments would have essentially been banned, and this is all a result of trying to stop abortion.

Well here is a simple thought Mississippi, maybe by working to provide more birth control options, and programs to teach women how to prevent pregnancy... we could work on lowering the abortion rate. 

But of course the right had to take it to the extreme... like always.

But the point I am working on getting at is how personhood laws will impact women who actually want to be pregnancy, and want to have a healthy and happy nine months.



No woman should ever be forced into any kind of choices, medical or otherwise. PERIOD.
This is why I was ecstatic to learn that Mississippi voters realized this and voted against this law passing.

The country as a whole seems to be endlessly attacking rights women have had for decades, why don't we get out of the uterus and fix the giant financial mess we are in?    Or would that simply be to fucking logical?