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February 24, 2006
Scary
This is appalling. Approved legislation that prescribes five years in jail for performing an abortion. Last I heard, the majority of Americans believe in a woman's right to choose. It's a personal, private right I hold dear -- why should a religious, vocal minority have a say over my reporductive rights? Why should teenagers be forced to have children they can't properly care for?
However, for whatever single-minded, short-sighted reason, half the country voted for a president who has no respect for these values (or, really, any human rights -- see this week's New Yorker article on U.S. torture policy). People I've spoken with who voted for Bush seem to think that the abortion rights issue wasn't at stake. What were they thinking? There's so much fear and ignorance in this country. People voted out of fear and now we have two conservative judges in the Supreme Court who won't find anything wrong with this backwards, damaging legislation.
Posted by csageday at February 24, 2006 05:36 PM