http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/rick-santorum-abortion-rape_n_1224624.html?ref=politics
It is not a hard feat to get me irate about something, but if you ever feel like you are lacking in the "what can I do to get Deavon fuming her face off" department, here are a few things you can bring up:
Rape, Abortion, Stupid Politics, Censorship, and Religion-Especially when it plays a part in any of the aforementioned list.
(Also, the subject of Courtney Love having anything to do with Kurt Cobain's death will usually send me in to a pretty impressive rage session, but for once, that is irrelevant.)
Back to the article. Allow me to take a few deep, cleansing breaths to try and maintain a pleasant, and professional demeanor.
This absolute waste of life is GOP (and what a grand ol party it is) presidential candidate Rick Santorum and I wish he was dead. Not only is he a Republican, which is one of the only types of people that can get me to feel as close to racist as I can get (Juggelos coming in close second), but he is also probably one of the biggest boners I have encountered in the little reading I choose to do involving politics.
If you took the time to read that pile of nonsense you would have discovered that Santorum is against abortion. Yeah, okay, so are a lot of completely diluted Christian Republicans (hand meet hand). I have a problem with that already, but for him to blatantly state that a woman should not be able to choose to terminate a pregnancy if she is raped, including a situation of incest is absolute fucking insanity. He goes on to say that even if his own daughter was raped and was begging for an abortion he would tell her, "accept this horribly created" baby, because it was still a gift from God, even if given in a "broken" way."
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?!!?
Allow me to spiral into a world where people walk on their hands and eat with their feet.
His whole argument was based on a completely casual cliche "Make the best of a bad situation."
What the... I don't even... I just can't...
Now allow me to bombard you even more with my opinions on this fucking shit storm.
First of all, rape is not a "bad" situation. It is a fucking awful situation. And there is no way in hell I can imagine raising the child of a man who stole one of the few things we have to give willingly, as anything close to making the best of it. Not only would it be hard for the woman, bringing up a child who would more than likely represent something absolutely traumatizing that happened to her, but think of this kid!
My father was a product of rape. His mother did what she could for him and loved him like a mother should. She dealt with the ordeal every way she knew how. My dad on the other hand, a man in his fifties now, struggles with identity, guilt, and the ever looming reminder that he; wasn't planned, was forced into his mothers body, and that his father was a rapist.
I am not saying that abortion isn't something that shouldn't be thought out, it is also a very hard thing to go through and live with. But I highly doubt that coping with the side effects that come with choosing to have an abortion even compare to the life long struggle you may experience raising the child of someone who raped you.
Everyone woman is different and that is why every woman should have a choice, especially in the case of rape.
One more thing. This may be the cynical, non-religious side of me talking, but, a God that gives you a gift in the form of rape isn't one I could get behind. And who is to say that the baby was the gift? Maybe the option of having an abortion and being able to help other people struggling with that same issue was your purpose? No one has the right to say what God's plans are and aren't. Especially a man who is biased on account of his wife (a former pro-choice liberal), having an affair with an abortion doctor. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087812/Rick-Santorums-wife-Karen-love-affair-abortion-doctor.html)
To quote a friend of mine, "Those of us who don't have wombs have no business determining abortion laws."
Word.
And I'm done.
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