On Abortion

Bad news, everyone. Alabama followed Georgia’s example and went fully backwards on any human decency. Protecting babies? Sounds great, but how about protecting them by providing their mothers with a social safety net, paid maternity leave, subsidized day care services, and even some paid leave for the father. Kids are expensive and even childbirth is tough to afford. I really thought we were advancing in the 21st century, but I guess we’re stuck in the dark ages. These 25 white guys in the Alabama legislature went well out of their way rather than focusing on economic or development or things that matter to majorly restrict a woman’s right to an abortion.

I’m not going to spend my time educating you on abortion. You have your opinion about what should be acceptable versus unacceptable and moral versus immoral. Just know that Millennials generally fall under the pro-choice umbrella with some agreeing with limitations on abortion. Check out the stats. I learned a few things.

The following is a quote from a friend of mine and a smart one at that. I did not write this, but it reflects my views of the hypocrites out there as does the above comic.

“The proceeding rant is a venting session and doesn't represent my true understanding of the nuances of human beings....
That said, FUCK ALABAMA. Fuck those inbred irredeemably racist semi-literate hog fuckers.
Fuck them. Fuck their abortion ban. Of all the fucking people that - at the least - need an incest exception in an anti-abortion law. Fuck them!
They've terrorized Blacks and Native peoples for centuries, they outright torment gays and trans peoples, they are just a few points shy of electing a serial pedophile, and yet suddenly, they think they can say they are pro-life. Fuck them, fuck their views, fuck their hypocrisy.
They're the Saudis of America
At least the Saudi people have the excuse of living in a highly repressive society with no access to free media. The Alabamans live in one of the wealthiest and cosmopolitan nations in the world and they choose to be racist backward inbred fucks.

Civil wars, civil rights movements, the information and technology era...nothing reached these people. They are as bigoted and backward now as they were in 1968. It's like all that inbreeding resulted in all their genes being the hypocritical douchebag genes."

Some brief legal commentary from another very smart friend.

“I think it is comparable to the fugitive slave act. Seeing as Alabama will punish women who go out of state to get an abortion, we have to be prepared to make a literal underground railroad to help these women”.

This ruling is ultimately terrible and more conservative states are feeling empowered to restrict what women can do with their bodies. Millennials don’t want to live in a theocracy like the Saudis. Will this happen in California or other progressive states? No, but this is important.

In the words of Martin Luther King Jr., “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”