As I mentersay, Pip
2:54 a.m. on 2004-11-13
My body is doing this weird thing where it wants to wake up at 2:30 a.m., so, no problem, I've just started going to bed at 7:00. Hopefully it is a passing affliction, and will go away with this goddamn cold. I haven't had a cold in like 7 years, and I've forgotten how much it sucks.
I've been laying in bed thinking about the Supreme Court, and so I decided to come write in here instead of annoying my poor daughter with my coughing and sneezing. Thus:
The verdict finally came in in the Scott Peterson trial, and thank goodness it was guilty. I noticed that he had been charged with, and convicted for, the death of his unborn son as well, and thought this was odd, because (I thought) according to federal law, fetuses are not citizens with rights. Then I realized that Bush had passed his law giving those fetuses rights.
In this case, that law is good. It allows the Court to pass judgment on assholes like Scott Peterson for what they have really done, i.e., killing not only their wife but their unborn son, too. The bad thing is that Roe v. Wade is based upon the assumption that fetuses are not citizens with rights under the law.
So, when the time comes for Bush to begin nominating Supreme Court Justices (and I would almost bet money that Ashcroft resigned just so that he could be one of those nominees) chances are fairly good that Roe v. Wade will be overturned.
I am not an advocate for everyone just going out and la-de-da getting abortions all the time, and I won't even make the argument dealing with overpopulation; unwanted, mistreated babies;or young mothers with their childhoods ruined, etc. But most people don't know that, before abortion was legal, a woman's labor couldn't be induced, even if the fetus was dead. Before Roe v. Wade, my aunt's baby died in the 8th month of pregnancy and she had to carry that dead fetus, knowing it was dead, for several weeks before she went into labor on her own, all the while people asking her "Oh, when are you due?" and saying "Congratulations!" Which would be totally heartbreaking. And, even if she hadn't gone into labor by herself for some reason, I'm not sure that they would have been able to induce labor, even to save my aunt's life.
Also, in my own case, an ultrasound at 18 weeks of pregnancy showed that my first daughter had a heart defect that was "incompatable with life". A big team of fetal cardiologists, who worked me over good because they finally had something [i]interesting[/i] to look at, all agreed that the chances were very slim that the baby would even make it to term, much less survive outside of the womb. I elected to not allow my baby, myself, or my family to suffer any longer than necessary, and we said goodbye to our daughter a few days after the ultrasound. If abortion hadn't been legal, I would have walked around, probably for several more months, with people congratulating me and asking when I was due, and I would have had to go through the pain of labor to deliver my poor, dead baby.
Enough, enough, enough of this. I'm going to go read some Charles Dickons to make me feel better about myself.
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