Various Random Stuff

[eumelia]

Re: Doctor Who - I'm still sad, though I see that our satellite provider is going to rerun New-Who and maybe Torchwood too.
Though I have the TW DVD's and most of DW on CD, it's always nice to watch the shows in an actual teevee screen.
Thus, I'm happier.

Things are a tad sleepy around these parts, I mean yeah the Air Force seemed to attack Gaza over the weekend, but "only" four people died and there was no declaration of a bigger emergency, so perhaps not starting the year with a bang is a good foretelling.

Here's to hoping.

It would appear that abortion is finally becoming an issue in the mainstream media. It appears that there has been a 10% drop in the abortion rate from 2000 to 2008, which the article says is to do with the fact for the tighter restrictions on late term abortions.

Yet, there are still these stupid, idiotic and shaming committees that require women to be paraded through in order to get a legal abortion.

I can understand the restrictions on late term abortions, even though I don't think there's anything morally wrong with a woman getting one - life in utero is still potential, while the life of the person carrying said life in utero is, well, in vivo.

Now to carry on the little lesson, de facto many women get illegal abortions in private OB/GYN practices.
This is more expensive and it's believed that married women are usually the ones who go to these private practices because they are usually denied an abortion in the committee.

I mean, really, c'mon! How dare a married woman of child baring years not want that precious life.
If she didn't want it, she should have taken precautions.
Because the Pill is enough - it's not.
Because an IUD is fool proof - only to a degree.
Because a condom is used in marriage - as far as I'm aware, only if one of the partners is sick with an STD.

Regardless, it's a stupid, backward and misogynistic procedure that women who don't want to have children are forced to go through - for daring to actually decide what to do with their bodies.

Now, I'm going for a walk.

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Because a condom is used in marriage - as far as I'm aware, only if one of the partners is sick with an STD.

Makes me wonder what the STD transmission rate is, because there are iirc certain STDs that can be transmitted without the transmitter showing any symptoms at the time.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Chlamydia is usually asymptomatic in women, HPV can be transmitted even with condom use, syphilis can be dormant for many years.

Just off the top of my head.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

"Tighter restrictions on late-term abortions" means that women whose babies are not viable are made to carry them to term anyway, or women whose health is threatened by the pregnancy are made to hang on until the fetus is viable, risking their lives and/or putting off cancer treatments (for a common example). Obviously, some women choose to wait and risk their health or life, and that's between them and their doctors. "Tighter restrictions", though, does *not* indicate this choice being an uncoerced one.