Published by deborah.woehr on 10 Mar 2006 at 10:09 pm
The Inmates are Running the Asylum
Quoted from South Dakota Bans Most Types of Abortion
BILL NAPOLI: A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life.
Oh, give me a break! What woman wouldn’t be physically or psychologically messed up from rape? Here’s another point: 99.99% of the women I’ve met in my life had lost their virginity by the time they were 15.
The girl has to be religious? Excuse me, but rapists don’t care what religion their victims are.
Married women will be forced to carry a rapist’s child? Oh, that will go over real well with their husbands. Here’s his second idiotic statement.
BILL NAPOLI: When I was growing up here in the wild west, if a young man got a girl pregnant out of wedlock, they got married, and the whole darned neighborhood was involved in that wedding. I mean, you just didn’t allow that sort of thing to happen, you know? I mean, they wanted that child to be brought up in a home with two parents, you know, that whole story. And so I happen to believe that can happen again.
Yeah, they had a shotgun wedding, most likely. Then the asshole probably beat her half to death before he left her. If she and the kid were lucky. Either way, the kid(s) paid the price. This guy is living in a fantasy world.
The only thing he said that I agreed with is that most abortions are performed out of convenience. Although I don’t like this fact, it’s none of my business. It’s none of the government’s business, either. This is a private matter between a woman and her lover, or the families if minors are involved.
What Napoli and his followers are trying to do is unconstitutional. Roe vs. Wade has little chance of being overturned by the Supreme Court. But these crazy zealots will certainly try their best.
Melly on 11 Mar 2006 at 5:29 am #
Oh, Deborah, there are so many things wrong with these statements that it’s hard to even tackle the issues.
It’s wrong from a sexist POV first and foremost as they want to decide what women do with their bodies - have (or not) sex, go to church, be virgins till they get married etc. It’s just so wrong!
And I wish I could just take my wrath out at men, but there were many women in the anti-abortion/anti-choice camp who pushed this through. Hard to comprehend.
Yes, I wish we would never have to have abortions, but here’s another solution for you. Why not chemically sterilize all men until they decided they want to have children and then reverse the process?
Do something to men’s bodies for a change!
Of course I’m kidding, but people constantly forget to look at the side of the equation that includes the men. Women don’t get pregnant on their own. Really! They don’t have sex on their own, so quit yapping about one sided virginity clauses.
Anyways, I’m rambling incoherently because it is incoherent.
Oh, well. Good weekend and all
Deborah on 11 Mar 2006 at 9:36 am #
The sexist crap just boiled my blood. That guy reminded me of my parents’ attitude on rape. They believe that it’s the woman’s fault and that the woman should bear full responsibility for what happened to her. They and this idiot have the mistaken belief that rape is all about sex.
I’m with you on the male sterilization, Melly, especially after what I read last night. If they’re not going to be responsible (i.e., knocking up more than one woman and then failing to pay their child support), they need to be neutered. Sound harsh?