pro-life anti-choice

So, I have been informed that today is a "Day of Silence." Not the Day of Silence. Today, apparently, anti-choice students take a day without speaking to represent the silence of the "victims" of their cause.

Let's talk about this. I'm a little embarrassed that a form of activism most associated with a group legitimately discriminated against is now being used to represent non-human entities. Oh, no, wait-- "Killed babies."

Anti-choice, better known as the "Pro-life" group, can't even give themselves a scientifically accurate name. And we're supposed to give them credit? A LIFE is an organism that will grow and potentially reproduce, and it is within the boundaries of that definition that the organism must be able to sustain life ON ITS OWN. That doesn't mean feed itself and dress itself and drive itself to school; that means that within its own body, it should be able to sustain survival. An organism that cannot do this is defined as a parasite. NO INFANT born before 22 weeks has survived, ever, in medical records. These organisms are parasites.

Better yet, they are not parasites that the mother had to fight off involuntarily; the mother is the partial creator of that fetus, and therefore, she has the right to do with it as she pleases.

"Pro-Life" is a scientifically inaccurate term because these students, generally choosing their views because their church or their parents subscribe to them, are not defending the life of a baby. They've been "taught," through the Bible (a technically anonymous, male-centric text) and through overemotionalized, radical literature that this is some little smiling baby in someone's tummy that's being plowed out.

These students are anti-choice; against the principles of individual decision and social liberty. They are encouraging the church to interfere with the state, an entirely unethical movement (and if you think you disagree, anti-choicers, realize that the church having a hand in the state means the state must also be allowed a hand in the church, and we all know you don't want that) and skewing and coloring medical realities about FETUSES (not babies!) and a woman's inherent rights.

Do not give me your "Founding Fathers" or "Christian nation" bull. Very few of the Founding Fathers were practicing Christians; a few were Deists, but many claimed no official religion and committed acts that didn't really line up with the Christian religion. Read your history books, before you open your mouths;

and the fact is that just because your religion seems like reality to you, that does NOT make it ethical for you to try to implement it in the laws that influence everyone, including a large sector of ethically intelligent people who know they should not have a hand in a woman's birth/abortion/adoption choice.

If you have listening ears and the willingness to actually read a book or pay attention to science or, god forbid, simple ETHICS, you can pull yourself outside of your personal Christian bubble and see that nothing you're supporting is scientifically, medically or politically sound.

If you are wearing a piece of tape today, you are committing an act of anti-feminism.