dlmCommentary

There are some things that get repeated over and over, that are so obviously idiotic that you start to feel like you're going to explode if someone doesn't correct the error with what should be common sense. Case in point: "A woman has (or should have) the right to do what she wants with her own body."

This statement has been made by so many otherwise seemingly intelligent people, and to disagree with it in public calls down so much self-righteous Nazi rhetoric, that the explanation for its dominance could not be clearer. A group of lunatic fringe feminists who want to globalize their unresolved childhood wounds rather than getting the therapy they need have exercised their considerable gifts of political manipulation over such a long enough period of time that their psychological aberration now masquerades as a legitimate cultural viewpoint.

The principle is once again demonstrated: the best way to hide from your mental illness is to gather together with those who share it but who don't want help. In one-hundred years, people will be looking back at "abortion rights" the way we now look back at slavery or the holocaust.

So, with a sense of embarrassment over how stubbornly deluded our shared humanity can allow itself to be, let me state the obvious.

1. Every law restricts human rights. If a woman really does have the right to do whatever she wants with her own body, that means no laws apply to her.

Now, it is extremely obvious that you folks like to use courts of law to get your way in a whole range of matters. You obviously believe that society should have laws and that those laws should generally be obeyed. You don't want everybody having the right to do what they want to with their own bodies (foot) when they get behind the wheel of a car, or with their own hand when it’s holding a baseball bat; and you really don't want insensitive males to have the freedom to do whatever they want with their own voices when they are speaking to women in the workplace.

You don't want one particular kind of legal restriction on one particular aspect of your freedom, so SAY SO! Stop trying to link it up with some sacred-sounding eternal truth.

2. If this pregnant woman is free to choose whether or not to give birth to this being she helped make, then why does the man who helped make it have no say at all? You are completely free in the decision process, but he's a non-entity? Is that what you mean by justice? And yet, if this woman in her glorious freedom decides to become a mom, suddenly daddy has LOTS of restrictions on his freedom. That same legal system from which you want complete freedom for your body suddenly becomes your best friend. If you have total freedom over your whole body, and he doesn't even have freedom over his own wallet, you've made quite the deal, haven't you? The phrase "double standard" comes to mind.

3. What happened to your cherished freedom over your own body when that embryo was brought into existence? Don't even start with that tired rape rhetoric. You know how very few aborted pregnancies are linked to rapes; stop being so dishonest.

The fact is, that free body of yours chose to have a casual roll in the hay with some hunk of masculinity with no interest in marriage. If the being that resulted might someday appreciate a little freedom of her own, well then...

4. Welcome to the strange world of post-pubescent decision making, where the stakes are high - even for males - and where actions have consequences - even for males.

Even if all those horrid male lawmakers did give you unconditional freedom, you would still have those pesky laws of nature to deal with - like gravity, electrical currents, dangerous storms, and YOUR OWN PHYSIOLOGY! Its not really freedom you want; you want the power to escape on a whim from nature itself. No wonder you have such a problem with male pronouns for God.

You are likely already telling yourself that what this has been an "anti-abortion" essay. It's near impossible for you to see that nothing in the entire text argues for or against the act of abortion. You make that the only issue so that you can dismiss the writer as a Right-Wing kook and go on “feeling good about yourself” no matter who it hurts.

But this is not an essay against abortion. Look again. It's an essay against willful ignorance, deceptive rhetoric, and eager complicity in your own delusion. Most of all, its about agenda addiction. Really, you couldn't care less about scientific evidence. What really matters to you is your freedom.

That's a pretty noble sounding spin on it. What really mattered to plantation owners 200 years ago was economic survival. What really mattered to German citizens in the 1930's was unjust treatment by the rest of Europe. What really matters to suicide bombers is a homeland for their Palestinians brothers and sisters. Yeah right.

You are lost in one of the sad cultural mythologies of our age, and its tearing up more than your wombs.

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Howdy there, y'all! Jest spressin' arr kindolinses 'bot dis recent lection. Yuh know, we'uns ott heer ern't vurry smert, goin' tuh arr jobs at the faktree, cumma home wen duh wissel blows, drinkin' beer, scratchin' urselves and wachin' y'all on the toob. Don't think much 'bout poleetix 'n such. We jist trust you edgkated fokes fer that.

And now, you're really angry with us for being so stupid. Why, exactly?

You live in the United States just as we do, even after threatening so many times to go somewhere else. Though you don't have much respect for all those dead white males who started this country, you obviously like it here and have done pretty well for yourselves.

Why have you done so well? Because most of us watch your television shows, go to your movies and concerts, buy the products you advertise, and read the magazines you so graciously dumb down to our level. We even slavishly follow the trends you set for us in fashion, hairstyle and music. For us, you are a hard habit to break.

So if we're so stupid and you're so smart, how is it that we didn't just follow along blindly when you put so much energy into your message?
You live - and evidently feel - like this country's Roman deities. Is that the real contrast in your minds between blue and red states? Do the blue states represent the peasants and the sheep, and their gods of Mt. Olympus?
But hold on a minute! The fact is, you need us more than we need you. Your livelihood depends on us, not ours on you.

Maybe when it comes right down to it, you have a low opinion of what you yourselves create and preach most of the time, which means we're just the dull masses, feeding on crap provided for us by a bunch of glitzy closet capitalists. But if you think so little of your own product, then what right do you have to be taken seriously in matters of politics, religion, education and family?
So please clarify your viewpoint. Are the people who buy your products and vote for presidents stupid or not?

Please let Hillary and the rest of us know before 2008.


by
Donald L. McIntyre
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Copyright © 2004 Donald L. McIntyre