Women are pathfinders

Proverbs 3:15-18

 

 Abortion, of course, is a medical procedure.

Yes all but the new readers have heard this rant before, but it is my stance on the matter and may as well be re-stated here.

Women and doctors had a problem with states playing God & Doctor, when a doctor wanted to prescribe an abortion for a dead fetus (which can cause gangrene), and things of the nature that would do bodily harm to the woman.

Yes there have always been women who wanted an abortion because they weren't married or didn't want to have any (or any more) children. But we developed contraceptives that work a huge percentage of the time. So that took care of most of the worry if you wanted to go around freezy-breezy as far as sex goes. It did not stop communicable disease but did prevent unwanted pregnancy to a great degree.

Some states (Texas is one) did not allow forced abortion under any circumstances threatening the doctor's license and jail time for him--a big incentive to him not to perform one even if in his considerable training and judgement, the procedure was imminently necessary. You might get a court order but that would be a long process and by that time the woman may have delivered a glob of infection and if she lived be sterile the rest of her days.

So when attention was drawn to it, everybody eventually saw that that was wrong.

But then came along a case of a woman wanting to abort without a doctor's recommendation. Still the horror stories of doctors not being allowed to do their job persisted and swayed the public to hope for a decision that was fair.

Why the court at the time chose this case to hear and why the ruling on only her right to privacy instead of the right of doctor patient privilege I have not a clue. A better case -one where there was a need for an abortion instead of a want would have been more proper to clarify THE PROBLEM.

But since we all respected the court back then as the ultimate and final conveyer of understanding of the constitution, we mostly bowed to their decision as a society and tried to wrap our head around it. Men came around to that oft repeated phrase, "It's her body..."

Well yes it's her body but she cannot prescribe drugs or other invasive treatments for it so why can she be allowed to write her own scrip for an invasive gynecological procedure?

Then yes abortion "clinics" were waiting with bated breath like the illegal bootlegger the night before prohibition. And they sprang up all over the country seemingly at once. Suddenly there was not one but two or more in every region. You didn't have to drive but 30 miles in either direction to have an abortion done.

One would have thought these investors knew how that ruling was going to go...

...So now that these companies are well healed of course they are going to remain political and pay for ads that tell you this is your right as an American citizen.


Hog wash and poppycock; nothing could be further from the truth.

Lemme tell ya something, ladies, life is uncontrollable because that way it remains beautiful.

If you can control every aspect of human birth (and we will soon have that capability) you only promote the mundane.


Other than that philosophical interlude I have this to say. Women are created to be pathfinders. We make do, make up, shake up and clear the air. 

But we should never make the rules alone.

We interpret a way to live and help to nourish the good that is in the world. It's our calling. If life throws lemons at us we are the ones who make the (literal and metaphorical) lemonade, not the men. We have honed a skill over eons of struggle. We are family. What would a man be without us? Don't give up the bread basket of life.

Let some other woman bring it to term, love it and make it into part of her family.

We fought too hard to get to our center to throw it all away and become just another guy. We are special. We are cherished. We are honored. We are truly amazing and we can do something amazing.