IF SHE’S OLD ENOUGH TO BLEED…
May 8th, 2006[Update -- 1713 -- lots of other bloggers are all over this like Terry, Sherry and Feminste.]
Emboldened by the appointments of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito, the barefoot-and-pregnant crowd are becoming increasingly vocal. How long before they switch from B&P to B&B (old enough to bleed, old enough to breed)? Surely their god doesn’t want all those vital eggs to be wasted?
How about a law mandating that all females be legally married with 3 months of their first period? Think I’m kidding. Read The Handmaiden’s Tale.
From yesterday’s New York Times Magazine:
“We see a direct connection between the practice of contraception and the practice of abortion,” says Judie Brown, president of the American Life League, an organization that has battled abortion for 27 years but that, like others, now has a larger mission.
“The mind-set that invites a couple to use contraception is an anti-child mind-set,” she told me. “So when a baby is conceived accidentally, the couple already have this negative attitude toward the child. Therefore seeking an abortion is a natural outcome. We oppose all forms of contraception.”
These are not nutcases folks. They are earnest people with political clout. Don’t ignore them.
My Soundtrack: Poison/Safe by Controller.Controller on WOXY.
[...] In talking with my webgoddess today this post about Contra-Ception came up and we both wondered where Ken Blackwell stood on the issue. Terry didn’t find any published statement by Blackwell, but she did find some interesting notes on his website concerning those who have chosen to anoint, pay for endorse Blackwell’s candidacy. [...]
Jeff:
This was just so scary. I was reading the post about bleed and breed and The Handmaiden’s Tale immediately came into my head. Two sentences later, you mention the book.
Given some of the latest things happening in our society, I am drawn to my memories of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell.
What could be more frightening than a world where men who want to tell women what to do with their bodies are the same ones who often have a strange fascination with guns?
Shalom Gloria,
Sometimes I think that the books we saw as cautionary tales, others saw as instructional manuals.
B’shalom,
Jeff