Comments | green_jenni: Utah Taliban: Keep Your Religion Off My Body

green_jenni

Utah Taliban: Keep Your Religion Off My Body

Jan 31, 2007 14:18

Background info:

Roe v. Wade

H.B. 235 S1

Utah Taliban/American Taliban: A place where laws are made according to the dominant religious/superstitious ideology and tend to result in excessive control over most aspects of one's life, and even more excessive control over women who are seen as inferior to men in that ideology.

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2007 utah legislature, feminism, choice issues, utah taliban, reproductive choices

Comments 13

mwalton January 31 2007, 21:41:46 UTC

Heck, regardless of anyone's thoughts on the issue it's a waste of "at least $1 million" according to Shertliff. That's money that SHOULD go to our underfunded public schools! Or any of the myriad of underfunded public works projects in the state. Not to mention the underhanded way this bill was thrust on people (when people thought they were there to talk about the only slightly less stupid trigger bill). Everything about this bill enrages me.

green_jenni January 31 2007, 22:14:01 UTC

You are right - there are so many needs that are more important than this ideological warfare.

deadbeatwriter January 31 2007, 23:39:30 UTC

Unfortunately because he makes exceptions for the mother's health and rape cases his bill has a decent chance of being enacted, even with a voter recall. He can't say he's "flat-out against abortion" either.

The kicker will be the spike in women reporting rapes...

green_jenni February 2 2007, 20:28:12 UTC

And the spike in back alley abortions . . .

deadbeatwriter February 1 2007, 22:25:00 UTC

He. South Dakota at it again.

green_jenni February 2 2007, 20:27:19 UTC

This is horrible--

But at least I can take (very) small comfort that I don't live in the only backward state in the U.S.

Rule by religion, especially when you don't believe that particular religion, really, REALLY sucks.

Overtune Roe v. Wade! anonymous February 2 2007, 17:21:23 UTC

Dear Jen ( ... )

Re: Overtune Roe v. Wade! green_jenni February 2 2007, 18:58:03 UTC

Once again alienated, you miss the point. You are defining the beginning of life on your religious view points. Do you have any non-religious proof that shows clearly that a fully developed nervous system, fully developed brain and a "soul" are all present at the point of conception or during the early stages of clump of cells or embryo ( ... )

Re: Overtune Roe v. Wade! green_jenni February 2 2007, 19:20:52 UTC

I have to respond to the it's only 9 months thing ( ... )

Re: Overtune Roe v. Wade! green_jenni February 2 2007, 19:38:53 UTC

Can't believe I forgot about the bladder! Pregnacy can be really destructive on the bladder. I may need surgery in a dozen years or so(assuming I can afford it) to keep me from being dependent on Depends, if you know what I mean.

Also, may or may not be related, but the timing is suggestive - pre-pregnancy days I had maybe a dozen or less migraines in my first 25 years of life. Beginning 2 months after my first was born and continuing to the present, I have about half a dozen a year, and if I didn't catch them early I'd probably have 1 every two weeks. And catching them early means medications that are hard on my liver.

It's not just 9 months of a persons life, in other words. We're talking serious bodily commitment.

Here! Here! anonymous February 4 2007, 00:02:53 UTC

Or is that Hear! Hear!

Anyway, keep up the good work. We will overcome these twits.