10.20.2008 ||> Because "health" deserves air quotes when you're a mother
The last debate has been bothering me, especially when McCain cited banning late-term abortions and ridiculing women who needed them for health reasons. I couldn't believe he implied that women in their third term were just a big bunch of fakers about those health reasons.
This post by a woman named Alexa really got to me though. You see, she was one of those airquoted "exceptions."
I want to be clear: if McCain had his so-called “culture of life,” and if my condition had progressed just a bit earlier, I would at least have lost my uterus, and I might very well be dead. All this in the interest of a baby who could not possibly have lived, because while an extremely few 23-weekers do survive, a by-then-severely-infected 23-weeker would certainly not. “Culture of life,” indeed.I agree with her about McCain. He does not think much of women. He left his first wife when she became disabled, called his current wife a c*** and airquotes women who need life-saving procedures. He is a known womanizer who apparently thinks we are too stupid to make decisions about our own bodies.
Please read the whole linked article, it really is fantastic.
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