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

[lariren-shadow.livejournal.com]

I...um...this is why I stopped following politics because it just makes me angry. Not to mention the whole miscarriage being a crime. That's not something women can control and making them go to jail because of it is horrible. I watched my mother deal with a miscarriage and it was horrible.

Politics is turning more and more into bullying and I just want to go to some rally and ask why, if we have such a bullying problem in schools, do you perpetuate it in politics.

*sigh*

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Your Eowyn icon could not be more appropriate. :( *Hugs*

And I'm so sorry about your mother. I...no words. :( *hugs her as well*

And this, regarding politics, so very much. It doesn't help that both radical ends of the spectrum seem to feel the need to play "who's the bad guy" at times. *Sighs* It's just...it's just awful.

[lariren-shadow.livejournal.com]

What's worse about politics is that the main person who brought back all of this partisan shit is Newt Gingrich and he's still in the running for the Republican nomination.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Yeah. *Sighs* Unfortunately. :(