Personhood

WARNING: colorful metaphors ahead.

I am feeling incredibly irritated with the idiots who are in office in this country. Apparently, religious zealots feel the need to push their horrifying agendas on the whole nation.

I am speaking of this 'personhood' movement that's been going around and infecting hard-lined conservatives like a stupifying virus. Let's just make this clear, A ZYGOTE IS BIOLOGICALLY NOT A PERSON. A fertalized egg IS BIOLOGICALLY NOT A PERSON. A fetus is BIOLOGICALLY NOT A PERSON. In fact, IT IS TECHNICALLY A PARASITE.

But you know, to hell with science, let's make a zygote a person. NO.

Now, abortion is a terrible practice, don't get me wrong. I love children, children are wonderful joyful (sometimes frustrating) things. Late term abortion is unacceptable under any circumstances. For me, if it can cry, it is most certainly a human being. I consider a fetus who would be a viable baby outside the womb, a human. Third trimester pushes into this territory and is therefore very, very wrong. But a fertalized egg? Are you fucking kidding me? It takes up to two weeks for a zygote to implant and even be considered a pregnancy. It if doesn't implant, it dies and is expelled by the female body. Some women who are infertile cannot have a pregnancy because there's some chemistry or other biological reason the zygotes do not implant. So, if a zygote is a human being, it would now be considered murder for something that is completely natural. And what about ectopic pregnancies? MURDER. What about the mother? WHO CARES?

Actually what it comes down to is control. It has nothing to do with religion anymore, it has everything to do with controlling women. It disgusts me when people use this veil of religion as an excuse to be jackasses and oppress other people. It disgusts me that there are people in this country who would fight to proect the life of an un-person over the life of a fully cognitive, functional human female who just happens to be pregnant. A pregnant woman would be considered a second-class citizen. AND these same sons of bitches are TOTALLY ok with capital punishment and sending off our troops to war. Pro-life? Bullshit. You can't choose which life if you are pro-life. That implies ALL human life (or simply ALL life in general if you want to go that far).

Anyway, enough ranting, I have homework. I am just furious and these fanatics. Want to know something interesting? My friend, who is a Muslim, told me that in Islam, they do not consider human life a life until 2 months after conception. So, if a severly conservative religion doesn't even consider a zygote a person, then what the fuck?

UGH.