Enslavement for Women, Legal Rights for Fertilized Eggs

Enslavement for Women, Legal Rights for Fertilized Eggs

By Sunsara Taylor

Created Nov 20 2007 - 9:48am

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story describing how now there is a

ballot initiative underway in Colorado to grant full legal rights to

fertilized eggs.

The result: Abortion would no longer be an option, it would be considered

"murder." Women who take birth control pills or use IUDs - as well as

doctors who prescribe them - could be charged with "murder" for preventing a

fertilized egg from adhering to the uterine wall. Miscarriages could be

investigated by the state. Women would be forcefully enslaved to their

reproduction.

A year after South Dakota nearly criminalized all abortion; a few months

after Ohio proposed a requirement for women to get permission of the man

involved before seeking an abortion, or else turn in a list to the state of

all their sexual partners; while legal prosecution is underway against the

courageous Dr. Tiller for performing late-term abortions; a few months after

the Supreme Court upheld the so-called "Partial Birth Abortion Ban;" as a

young man in Texas is already in jail for life for assisting his girlfriend

in self-inducing an abortion after a judge lied to her about her options; as

a movement of Christian fascist pharmacists across the country are refusing

to prescribe birth control to women, and so much more... All I could think

while reading this article is: "PEOPLE: WAKE THE FUCK UP AND STOP

SLEEPWALKING TOWARDS FASCISM!"

Women are human beings, not incubators. Intellectually, creatively,

politically, and socially we are capable of everything that men are capable

of. The fact that we are capable of giving birth is simply one element of

our biology -- not the central or defining thing about our capabilities and

it should not be the central or defining thing in determining our role in

society. If women are not free to determine for themselves when and whether

to bear children, then not only do women suffer unspeakably from the

disrespect, brutality, foreclosed lives and oppression bound up with this,

but society suffers immeasurably from the squandering of half of humanity's

potential. The role of women is a defining aspect of any society; If women

are not free, then no one can be free.

Right now, two futures for women are posed. Either we step out of bounds of

politics as usual, get out in the streets in a furious political uprising,

challenge and shake people loose from the ignorance and oppressive relations

prescribed in the Bible, put something on the line now - OR - we are

passively accepting the enslavement of the female half of humanity.

This is no hyperbole. The stated aim of the movement to end abortion is also

to end birth control and to reestablish the role of women as that of

"helpmeets" to their husbands and fathers. They are not planning on merely

taking us back to the days of under-the-table dangerous back-alley

abortions, they are laying the legal basis, constructing ethical arguments,

and creating a cultural atmosphere where those involved in providing women

with either birth control or abortions will be hunted down, tried, and

punished as murderers. Meanwhile, "Purity Balls" where girls exchange vows

with, and pledge their virginity to, their fathers until they are passed off

to their husbands are springing up around the country, "abstinence only" is

spreading ignorance and shame throughout the schools and overseas, and

homosexuals are being demonized and denied basic legal rights. All this is

rooted in a literalist interpretation of the bible with all the horrors that

entails. Specifically, but not only, the insistence that women be unto their

husbands as their husbands are unto the lord (Ephesians 5:22) and that they

leave it up to god (not the use of contraception or abortion) to determine

how many children they will bear.

There is nothing "moral" about any of this. The Bible was written two

thousand years ago by human beings to justify and instill with supernatural

authority the oppressive societies they were seeking to hold together. This

was a slave-owning, ignorant, warring and brutally patriarchal society and

the Bible, accordingly, insists on the obedience of slaves, the slaughtering

of people of other religions, the stoning of non-virgin brides and so much

more. This is a book whose relations and "morals" should be left in history.

Instead, it is being is being used to justify a Christian fascist agenda, it

is very far along, and it is NOT going away without a fight.

Face it: the Democrats, and the "pro-choice leaders" who are tied to them,

are not stopping this direction, they are facilitating it! They have

accepted and are promoting the Christian fascist logic that there is

something wrong with abortion (Hillary calls it a "tragic choice"), that

women's most valuable role is as mothers (they claim to be the party that is

better, not for women, but for mothers and families), and they are lulling

people, one compromise at a time, into a future that no one should want to

live in (no one even bothered to filibuster Supreme Court appointees John

Roberts or Samuel Alito). At a time when birth control and abortion are more

in more danger than at any point since Roe V. Wade, it is widely

acknowledged that the Democrats have surrendered the field and would prefer

to change the subject.

Meanwhile, there are hundreds of millions of people in this country who - if

they understood what the sustained assault on abortion is really about and

what kind of future it is really leading towards - would be revolted. There

are those who came of age in the movements of the 60's and 70's who are

watching in horror as the advances they fought for and won are being rolled

back. There is a new generation that is stirring and looking for a way to

change all that is wrong in the world today - from the wars of aggression,

the torture, to nooses appearing across the country to the oppression,

degradation and brutality inflicted on women. And there are others.

Taking the long view, the notion that women are human beings equal to men

and capable of participating fully in all realms of human society is still

extremely new and extremely embattled on a world-historic scale. It really

was introduced to the world on a large stage with the revolutions first in

the Soviet Union and later in China because of the level of participation of

women and of the transformations in relations between men and women brought

about in those societies. Since those revolutions were reversed decades ago,

many who once fought for complete liberation for women have lowered their

sights and the rulers of this country and others have worked to forcefully

reassert traditional morality and traditions chains on women.

Here we see a reminder that there is no guarantee that history will always

move forward. What happens in any given era is determined by how the people

understand and act on the conditions they find themselves in. Today, we are

confronted by a powerful movement to enslave women. But, there also exists

the potential power among the people, if we dare to act on it, to challenge

and reverse this and makes strides, once again, towards the complete

emancipation of women.

Taking the long-view once again it is clear that every advance for women has

come from those who have dared to struggle and sacrifice against unjust

authority, defy and upend patriarchal notions about the role and nature of

women, and move massively outside the channels of official politics. Through

this process, much has been learned and new cultures and new ways for women

and men to relate have been forged, creating seeds of a world we'd actually

like to hand down to future generations.

Today, as two futures for women are posed, what we do will determine not

only our destinies, but those of future generations. It is time for all of

us to stand up. We need abortion on demand and without apology. We need to

challenge, not conciliate with, the "morality" of the Bible, especially as

it is taken literally. We need to break people free of the Democrats and

their "politics of the possible" - for all this is no more than the politics

of facilitating monstrosity. We need to put something on the line to bring

about a world where women and men relate with equality and mutual respect,

where women participate fully in every sphere, and where all of society is

enriched because of it. It is time for a new women's liberation movement.

_______

About author Sunsara Taylor writes for Revolution Newspaper [1] and sits on

the Advisory Board of The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime [2].

She can be reached at: sunsarasworld@yahoo.com [3].

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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their

spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their

government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are

suffering deeply in spirit,

and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public

debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have

patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning

back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at

stake."

-Thomas Jefferson

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:55:59 -0800, "Gandalf Grey"

<valinor20@gmail.com> wrote:

>Enslavement for Women, Legal Rights for Fertilized Eggs

>By Sunsara Taylor

>Created Nov 20 2007 - 9:48am

>

>Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story describing how now there is a

>ballot initiative underway in Colorado to grant full legal rights to

>fertilized eggs.

>

>The result: Abortion would no longer be an option, it would be considered

>"murder." Women who take birth control pills or use IUDs - as well as

>doctors who prescribe them - could be charged with "murder" for preventing a

>fertilized egg from adhering to the uterine wall. Miscarriages could be

>investigated by the state. Women would be forcefully enslaved to their

>reproduction.

You KNOW it's not gonna pass ... not even close. Even women

who publically decry abortion and contraception will change

their minds when the ballot is in front of them because they

KNOW what problems women can get into. It's a secret ballot,

nobody will find out which box they checked ....

"Gandalf Grey" <valinor20@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:47446ddb$0$13771$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com...

> Enslavement for Women, Legal Rights for Fertilized Eggs

>

> By Sunsara Taylor

> Created Nov 20 2007 - 9:48am

>

> Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story describing how now there is a

> ballot initiative underway in Colorado to grant full legal rights to

> fertilized eggs.

>

> The result: Abortion would no longer be an option, it would be considered

> "murder." Women who take birth control pills or use IUDs - as well as

> doctors who prescribe them - could be charged with "murder" for preventing

> a

> fertilized egg from adhering to the uterine wall. Miscarriages could be

> investigated by the state. Women would be forcefully enslaved to their

> reproduction.

>

> A year after South Dakota nearly criminalized all abortion; a few months

> after Ohio proposed a requirement for women to get permission of the man

> involved before seeking an abortion, or else turn in a list to the state

> of

> all their sexual partners; while legal prosecution is underway against the

> courageous Dr. Tiller for performing late-term abortions; a few months

> after

> the Supreme Court upheld the so-called "Partial Birth Abortion Ban;" as a

> young man in Texas is already in jail for life for assisting his

> girlfriend

> in self-inducing an abortion after a judge lied to her about her options;

> as

> a movement of Christian fascist pharmacists across the country are

> refusing

> to prescribe birth control to women, and so much more... All I could think

> while reading this article is: "PEOPLE: WAKE THE FUCK UP AND STOP

> SLEEPWALKING TOWARDS FASCISM!"

>

> Women are human beings, not incubators. Intellectually, creatively,

> politically, and socially we are capable of everything that men are

> capable

> of. The fact that we are capable of giving birth is simply one element of

> our biology -- not the central or defining thing about our capabilities

> and

> it should not be the central or defining thing in determining our role in

> society. If women are not free to determine for themselves when and

> whether

> to bear children, then not only do women suffer unspeakably from the

> disrespect, brutality, foreclosed lives and oppression bound up with this,

> but society suffers immeasurably from the squandering of half of

> humanity's

> potential. The role of women is a defining aspect of any society; If women

> are not free, then no one can be free.

>

> Right now, two futures for women are posed. Either we step out of bounds

> of

> politics as usual, get out in the streets in a furious political uprising,

> challenge and shake people loose from the ignorance and oppressive

> relations

> prescribed in the Bible, put something on the line now - OR - we are

> passively accepting the enslavement of the female half of humanity.

>

> This is no hyperbole. The stated aim of the movement to end abortion is

> also

> to end birth control and to reestablish the role of women as that of

> "helpmeets" to their husbands and fathers. They are not planning on merely

> taking us back to the days of under-the-table dangerous back-alley

> abortions, they are laying the legal basis, constructing ethical

> arguments,

> and creating a cultural atmosphere where those involved in providing women

> with either birth control or abortions will be hunted down, tried, and

> punished as murderers. Meanwhile, "Purity Balls" where girls exchange vows

> with, and pledge their virginity to, their fathers until they are passed

> off

> to their husbands are springing up around the country, "abstinence only"

> is

> spreading ignorance and shame throughout the schools and overseas, and

> homosexuals are being demonized and denied basic legal rights. All this is

> rooted in a literalist interpretation of the bible with all the horrors

> that

> entails. Specifically, but not only, the insistence that women be unto

> their

> husbands as their husbands are unto the lord (Ephesians 5:22) and that

> they

> leave it up to god (not the use of contraception or abortion) to determine

> how many children they will bear.

>

> There is nothing "moral" about any of this. The Bible was written two

> thousand years ago by human beings to justify and instill with

> supernatural

> authority the oppressive societies they were seeking to hold together.

> This

> was a slave-owning, ignorant, warring and brutally patriarchal society and

> the Bible, accordingly, insists on the obedience of slaves, the

> slaughtering

> of people of other religions, the stoning of non-virgin brides and so much

> more. This is a book whose relations and "morals" should be left in

> history.

> Instead, it is being is being used to justify a Christian fascist agenda,

> it

> is very far along, and it is NOT going away without a fight.

>

> Face it: the Democrats, and the "pro-choice leaders" who are tied to them,

> are not stopping this direction, they are facilitating it! They have

> accepted and are promoting the Christian fascist logic that there is

> something wrong with abortion (Hillary calls it a "tragic choice"), that

> women's most valuable role is as mothers (they claim to be the party that

> is

> better, not for women, but for mothers and families), and they are lulling

> people, one compromise at a time, into a future that no one should want to

> live in (no one even bothered to filibuster Supreme Court appointees John

> Roberts or Samuel Alito). At a time when birth control and abortion are

> more

> in more danger than at any point since Roe V. Wade, it is widely

> acknowledged that the Democrats have surrendered the field and would

> prefer

> to change the subject.

>

> Meanwhile, there are hundreds of millions of people in this country who -

> if

> they understood what the sustained assault on abortion is really about and

> what kind of future it is really leading towards - would be revolted.

> There

> are those who came of age in the movements of the 60's and 70's who are

> watching in horror as the advances they fought for and won are being

> rolled

> back. There is a new generation that is stirring and looking for a way to

> change all that is wrong in the world today - from the wars of aggression,

> the torture, to nooses appearing across the country to the oppression,

> degradation and brutality inflicted on women. And there are others.

>

> Taking the long view, the notion that women are human beings equal to men

> and capable of participating fully in all realms of human society is still

> extremely new and extremely embattled on a world-historic scale. It really

> was introduced to the world on a large stage with the revolutions first in

> the Soviet Union and later in China because of the level of participation

> of

> women and of the transformations in relations between men and women

> brought

> about in those societies. Since those revolutions were reversed decades

> ago,

> many who once fought for complete liberation for women have lowered their

> sights and the rulers of this country and others have worked to forcefully

> reassert traditional morality and traditions chains on women.

>

> Here we see a reminder that there is no guarantee that history will always

> move forward. What happens in any given era is determined by how the

> people

> understand and act on the conditions they find themselves in. Today, we

> are

> confronted by a powerful movement to enslave women. But, there also exists

> the potential power among the people, if we dare to act on it, to

> challenge

> and reverse this and makes strides, once again, towards the complete

> emancipation of women.

>

> Taking the long-view once again it is clear that every advance for women

> has

> come from those who have dared to struggle and sacrifice against unjust

> authority, defy and upend patriarchal notions about the role and nature of

> women, and move massively outside the channels of official politics.

> Through

> this process, much has been learned and new cultures and new ways for

> women

> and men to relate have been forged, creating seeds of a world we'd

> actually

> like to hand down to future generations.

>

> Today, as two futures for women are posed, what we do will determine not

> only our destinies, but those of future generations. It is time for all of

> us to stand up. We need abortion on demand and without apology. We need to

> challenge, not conciliate with, the "morality" of the Bible, especially as

> it is taken literally. We need to break people free of the Democrats and

> their "politics of the possible" - for all this is no more than the

> politics

> of facilitating monstrosity. We need to put something on the line to bring

> about a world where women and men relate with equality and mutual respect,

> where women participate fully in every sphere, and where all of society is

> enriched because of it. It is time for a new women's liberation movement.

> _______

>

>

>

> About author Sunsara Taylor writes for Revolution Newspaper [1] and sits

> on

> the Advisory Board of The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime

> [2].

> She can be reached at: sunsarasworld@yahoo.com [3].

>

> --

> NOTICE: This post contains copyrighted material the use of which has not

> always been authorized by the copyright owner. I am making such material

> available to advance understanding of

> political, human rights, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues.

> I

> believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of such copyrighted material as

> provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright

> Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107

>

> "A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their

> spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their

> government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are

> suffering deeply in spirit,

> and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public

> debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have

> patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning

> back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are

> at

> stake."

> -Thomas Jefferson

>

>

>

Next fashion craze will be some kind of burka for Christian women.

The state will own and control all vaginas from here on out.