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By Amanda MarcotteThursday, May 30, 2013 13:27 EDT
So, it looks like El Salvador is going to go ahead and murder-through-
neglect a 22-year-old woman who needs an abortion to live. I wish I
could say I was surprised, but I’m not. The only way this is surprising
is if you believe that “pro-life” policies have anything to do with
life. This was entirely predictable, if you correctly believe that
opposition to abortion is rooted in a belief that women should give
birth whether they like it or not—or die trying. This woman is a human
sacrifice made by the government of El Salvador to demonstrate their
fealty to the belief that women are subhuman baby factories who don’t
deserve rights.
The woman in question, who is being called Beatriz by the press, is
suffering from lupus and kidney disease that will likely kill her if she
gives birth, and her fetus doesn’t have a brain, meaning that it will
not survive if brought to term. If/when she passes, she will leave
behind a young son and a husband.
When I say “human sacrifice”, I am not exaggerating. The Catholic Church
has responded to the surge of feminist energy around the world in no
small part by doubling down on their denunciations of contraception and
abortion, and making it clear that women should put being subservient
baby-makers over every other consideration, even their own basic
survival. In fact, there’s a lot of romanticizing of women who die in
childbirth, to the point where it’s treated like it’s the most awesome
thing you can do as a woman. At least one woman I know of has been
sainted for dying rather than choosing abortion, and anti-choicers
frequently spread slobberingly worshipful propaganda exalting death in
childbirth as the best thing that ever happened. (Here’s a typical
example.) The misogynist longing for female death isn’t even really
subtextual at this point, but right there on the surface. And if you
won’t choose death, well, they’ll choose it for you.
All of this is why it’s really just so, so disingenuous for a bunch of
death eaters like the hardcore Catholics to claim that pro-choicers are
pushing a “culture of death”. Nothing is more pro-life than the belief
that women’s lives matter, independent of their fertility. Anti-choicers
in the U.S. know that pushing for these really hardcore policies that
ban abortions with no exceptions exposes how anti-life they actually
are, so they usually don’t go this far, but don’t be fooled. Bans on
abortion for the health of the mother might as well be bans on abortion
in the case of the mother’s life. Cases like Beatriz’s, where the chance
of death is near 100% if she gives birth, are pretty rare. Doctors will
generally be reluctant to push for legal abortions in cases where the
chance of death is more like 50% or 75%. Plus, if women are granted
life-saving abortions in some cases, such eclampsia, they regain their
health pretty quickly right after the abortion, giving misogynist
prosecutors leverage to say that she wasn’t “really” sick and
prosecuting the doctors and their patients anyway.
Anti-choice politics are always about the sacrificing of women’s lives.
They start with sacrificing women’s ability to live their lives freely,
and eventually move on to terminating women’s right to have those lives
at all. This is but one really egregious example.
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We are indeed Carcinoma Sapiens, destroying, by insane fecundity, that
which we need to survive.
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As always, organized religion opposes progress -
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See what RELIGION does to peoples' minds?
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Adults no longer believe in the Tooth Fairy - but they still torture and
kill each other over ancient myths and superstitions.
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"We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of
love
and gentleness; how many bodies were burned
alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal
fire of hell." --- Karl Popper
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When
many
people suffer from a delusion, it is called Religion."
--- Robert M. Pirsig
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Either God wants to abolish evil and cannot, or he can but does not want
to.
If he wants to but cannot he is impotent. If he can
but does not want to, he is wicked. If he neither can nor wants to, then
he
is both powerless and wicked.
--- Epicurus, Greek philosopher, circa 300 B.C.
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"Act of God" disasters like the Japanese earthquake expose the myth.
Either
God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like
this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. He is thus either
impotent, evil, or imaginary.
--- CNN Belief Blog, 3-20-11
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"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things
and
evil people doing evil things. But for good people
to do evil things, that takes religion."
--- Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
religious conviction." --- Blaise Pascal.
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as
false,
and by rulers as useful."
--- Seneca the Younger (4? BC - 65 AD)
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"Religion once ruled the world. It was called the Dark Ages." --- Ruth
Green.
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"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings." ---
Victor Stenger.
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"I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose." ---
Clarence Darrow
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"As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of
religion." --- Butterfly McQueen
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"Religion was invented when the first con-man met the first fool." -
Mark
Twain
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so." --- Mark Twain
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"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character
in
all fiction." --- Richard Dawkins
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"Cult today, religion tomorrow."
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation:
http://ffrf.org/
The Secular Coalition for America:
www.secular.org
Secular Student Alliance:
www.secularstudents.org
www.infidels.org
www.humaniststudies.org
www.atheistalliance.org
www.americanhumanist.org
http://tinyurl.com/nj32s6f