Today at our monthly Free-Thought meet-up the presentation was on women's rights and birth control. That bill that some people want to have passed that would force women seeking abortions to have that awful vaginal wand thing done sounds really terrible. The lady who did the presentation also volunteers as an escort at Planned Parenthood and she had some really sad things to say. Like that the protesters can physically assault them, and that the cops just call it harassment, and nothing gets done to stop it - even with video evidence. Like that she's escorted young (think 12 year old) rape victims to get abortions and had people do nasty things to try to keep them from going in.
To anyone who is supporting that bill: Put yourself in someone else's shoes. Think of the horror of being raped, the reality that you really have no way to care for a child you didn't want, a big scary person or group of people harassing (and quite possibly assaulting) you, and then the state wants to start imposing rape with a plastic wand and shaming right on top of all of that. I know that that is not the circumstance for everyone, but it does happen. I am infuriated and sad to know that ANYONE - any single person or any government body thinks they have any business making such personal and hard choices harder for anyone. We really need to stop this.
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