January 18, 2008
See You at the Anti-Abortion Protest, Ladies!
This year's abortion bash, Walk for Life-West Coast, will take place tomorrow, Jan 19, on the lawn area of Justin Herman Plaza down by the Embarcadero from 10:30 a..m. to 1:30 p.m. And we can't wait! What are you going to wear? We're going to sport our beaver fur-trimmed coat, because...well, we're sure there's a smug murder joke in there somewhere. But if you're able to get up that early on a Saturday morning, you all should head down to the Embarcadero to voice your support and/or disdain. (Why this can't be settled with a pillow fight is beyond us.)
And if dictating what women should do with vaginas doesn't whet your appetite, loopy "reformed murderer" Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., might sweeten the honey pot. It seems that she will on-hand to speak out about her anti-abortionness. Although King is already here today spreading sunshine all over the place at women's clinic in Oakland, tomorrow you'll get to hear her drop pearls of wisdom her mouth. To wit:
By contrast, Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King Jr., calls herself a "reformed murderer" for undergoing two abortions when she was young.Now an outspoken anti-abortion campaigner, King says the best way to reduce abortions among black women is to dissuade more of them from premarital sex.
"We give free sex education, free condoms, free birth control," she complained. "That's almost like permission to have free sex, and the higher the rate of sexual activity, the higher the rate of unintended pregnancy."
(The aforementioned AP article also brings the always interesting aspect of race into the abortion fold. So interesting that we're going to stay as far away from it that as possible. See that dot over on the horizon? That's us.)
No word yet as to whether or not Deborah Barone will gather with the flock to help celebrate the 35th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, but we hope so. Because: God, we love us some Deborah Barone. Even if she allegedly thinks that we deserve to fry in the eighth circle of hell. Anyway, see you at the party.
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While I don't think that sex education = permission to have sex, it does seem that sex education often focuses on how not to get pregnant or get a venereal disease rather than the psychological and emotional ramifications of sex and intimacy. As if those were the only pitfalls to having a rampant sex life.
I want that shirt. immediately. where do i get
King says the best way to reduce abortions among black women is to dissuade more of them from premarital sex.
Ugh, why specify black women rather than saying all women? It's as if she's saying that white women are more careful with their vaginas than black women are. Or, wait, is that what she intended to mean? And is it even inaccurate?
Staying away from the race aspect is hard to do when people like Ms. King suggest weird distinctions between races.
I have a shirt that says, "abortions, get 'em while you still can." I'll make you one jameth.
Is there contraceptive against being an ign'nt dumbass?
"Is there contraceptive against being an ign'nt dumbass?"
That my friend is the billion dollar question. Instead of the X-prize, nobel prize, the Olympics and the Oscars, we should have just one massive competition to find the thing that stops anyone I find retarded from breeding. I thought they'd cracked it with that orchid thing in Moonraker, but sadly I've found out that it's a movie and Drax wasn't an actual real person. Someday the world will be free of anyone I find the slightest bit annoying.
Oh, and I always like to put the word abortion next to the word bucket. It has such a great ring to it. Abortion bucket. Abortion bucket. It just sounds so right.
There is a site that sells those shirts, I just can't remember the name, but if you google "I had an abortion t-shirt" it'll come right up.
Too bad I have to miss the rally, I have to instead fight to keep rent control legal.
HEY, WHY ISN'T THAT BEING PUBLICIZED? SAVE RENT CONTROL CONVENTION IS TOMORROW!!!
What about free sex ed, free birth control and free condoms to married couples who do not want kids but financially can't afford prevention?
What about married couples who want them eventually but would be ruined financially if they did right now?
What about- wait, sorry...I'm using logic, that won't work, how silly of me...carry on.
Those shirts were part of a Planned Parenthood fundraiser, though I guess you could fine someone else selling them now.
I don't understand why people thnik that educating teenagers about how the endocrine system initiates hormonal changes that induce an egg to erupt and semen to be made gets kids all hot and bothered. Yeah, baby, tell me more about FSH, ooh that's so hot! My GnRH is rising!
RE: Abortion Bucket
I think they serve those at Hobson's Choice
Wow, almost everyone at the Kathy Griffin blog has an image of Kathy Griffin for their avatar. I had no idea that Kathy Griffin fans were so wild about Kathy Griffin.
"My Mom Aborted Me" would be a good tee shirt.
I have one that says, "Obviously my Mom drank and dropped acid while she was pregnant."
I bet the Berkeley folks from this article are going to be hanging with Alveda today. It just seems SO wrongheaded for the solution to "high rates of abortion among african american women" to be "tell them god will hate them unless they have their baby."
How about fighting for more opportunities for african american communities so folks who get pregnant can actually financially support the kid? How about addressing the issue of imprisonment among black men that leaves women to raise kids alone (or to decide they CAN'T raise them alone)? And in the many years before those long term goals come to pass, how about some fucking sex education to reduce the pregnancies in the first place?
Sorry for the rant. I'll just take myself over to feministing now ;)
Glad I'm going to be nowhere near the march...
check out the endorsement quotes on their site:
http://www.walkforlifewc.com/saying.htm
gotta love the catholic church support
'we figured out a long time ago that it's much less complicated to just molest boys. they don't get pregnant'
these fuckers took over the entire marina green today and diverted traffic aroudn marina boulevard.
made it a bitch to get home from crissy field.
even worse, they hired a bi plane advertisement banner of a picture of an aborted baby!
who the fuck gave these nazi's a permit to demonstrate in our city?
you might as well give one to the kkk!
Someone should design a giantic condom that can be dragged behind a bi-airplane and flown in circles around such religious rallies.