We've Got Some Bad News On Our Hands.

[ladyofleithian]

Warning for potentially inflammatory content involving abortion/mentioned double standards, and triggering content involving miscarriage and rape/sexual assault. If these things upset you, it's best you turn back. I don't want to trigger/upset anyone by mistake.




Got this from valarltd (thank you, valarltd, for allowing me to repost this):

http://valarltd.livejournal.com/1508353.html#comments

To paraphrase, both Virginia and Oklahoma have passed Personhood Amendments -- remember the Mississippi Personhood Amendment that I posted about last year? Though the people of Mississippi rejected it, it didn't stop it from passing in Virginia and Oklahoma -- basically, they say that life technically begins at conception, so they not only passed laws that basically made miscarriages and abortion illegal (and on the miscarriages front, this isn't just something that's happening now, it happened last year), but they also made contraception illegal.

In addition, should a woman choose to have an abortion, Virginia has made it mandatory to have her undergo a transvaginal ultrasound, never mind if she wants it or not. It doesn't help that apparently, conservative commentators are also petitioning to repeal the 19th Amendment -- apparently blaming it for government growth as well as the double standards that are apparently abounding today. The petition I linked you to currently has one hundred signatures -- it is currently striving for one hundred thousand signatures.

*Sighs*

Our government's turning into a dictatorship with every passing moment. If anything, I fear for the future.

Comments

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

And nobody's even noticed? Damn... 0.0.

[forcewatcher.livejournal.com]

Many have noticed. Heck, I'm nobody and I see it. Most people don't care or get killed off. Bush Sr. is the biggest threat of our generation. He wasn't the first; he won't be the last. We're living the Clone Wars.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Good analogy, I say.

And yeah... *sighs* What are we going to do?

[forcewatcher.livejournal.com]

Educate youself, then educate others. Or do nothing. Either way it's a hard, lonely road with crackpots all around. Either way, know your rights and exercise them.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Yeah. *sighs* Good idea. :)

I guess it's just hard, feeling so helpless. (And yeah, Virginia's fairly conservative, but still...) But yeah -- you're definitely right, man. You're definitely right.

[forcewatcher.livejournal.com]

We're never helpless. They just want us to think we are. This country was founded by the pissed off. Remember what I always say about those who don't learn from history being doomed to repeat it. It works both ways.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) *hugs* ^^

And that's definitely true. :)

[forcewatcher.livejournal.com]

Anytime. *hugs*