The kids over at Kos are really into working the language (taking a page from Lakoff's book, no doubt). Today, they're dealing with the words of life vs. choice:
Meanwhile, JC Christian, a skillful master, wields the weapon of language quite differently but still swings at the same beast:
UPDATE: There's a good discussion about this bill over at Chez Miscarriage along with the news that Cosgrove has withdrawn the bill (via Spirit Speaks).
I've been struggling for a term for so-called pro-lifers who look the other way on war, post-natal care, social services, death penalty, and other life and death issues.
Pro-birth. That does the trick.
Meanwhile, JC Christian, a skillful master, wields the weapon of language quite differently but still swings at the same beast:
Miscarriage justice
Del. John Cosgrove
Virginia House of Delegates
Dear Del. Cosgrove,
I'm writing you to wish you luck on your bill requiring women to report miscarriages to the police within 12 hours. It's a good bill. It will provide law enforcement officers with the ability to interrogate women immediately after they miscarry, a time when they're the most emotionally vulnerable. It should result in many more feticide convictions.
We can do even more to protect the lives of Fetus-Americans. I've developed a small handgun that they can use to defend themselves. It's a fine weapon, but I've run into problems when I've given it to them. Fetus-Americans have lousy eyesight, hand-eye coordination, and judgment. They need extensive firearms training.
That's where you come in. I'd like you to propose that the Commonwealth of Virginia institute a firearms instruction program for Fetus-Americans, something like the NRA's Eddy the Eagle Program--let's call it Ziggy the Zygote Training.
I'd also like you to be personally involved in the project. I'm a big fan of your Have a Cosgrove Christmas CD. Perhaps you could write songs to help the little Ziggy the Zygoters learn to use firearms responsively. I'm thinking of catchy little tunes with titles like Don't Shoot Mommy in the Uterus and I'm a Responsible Gun-Owning Blastocyst Defending Myself from the Abortionist.
I hope to hear back from you soon.
Heterosexually yours,
Gen. JC Christian, patriot
UPDATE: There's a good discussion about this bill over at Chez Miscarriage along with the news that Cosgrove has withdrawn the bill (via Spirit Speaks).
5 comments:
I adore the folks at dailykos. It's too much for me to keep up with, though... glad that you are posting these tidbits.
Pro-Birth, indeed!
I am BEYOND appalled at the proposed VA miscarriage law. I learned about it from a blog that's up for the BOB awards, here: http://chezmiscarriage.blogs.com/chezmis... It gives the whole shebang as the following:
the information a woman will be forced to provide to law enforcement will include (but will not be limited to) her social security number, her race, her educational background, her marital status, the extent of her prenatal care, and her full reproductive history.
Let's cheer the latest tsunami: the Police State! Hip, hip, hooray!
:P
I agree—beyond appalled is the only way to put it. How can we possibly make it a crime to have a miscarriage?!?!? I swear, I did make an effort to make my blog something other than just another place to find political discussion, but then I read things like that and end up going to the most convenient place I have to share my frustration with other people, and before I know it, I've got another week with little but rants up here! Arrrgh!!! ;)
There is so much to rant about!
I figure that the point of the law is to get info on the use of RU486, since abortion will likely become illegal in the next 4 years. But my outrage isn't particularly about that - that's the expected thinking of Republican lackeys. To me it's the insult, the complete lack of understanding of what a woman goes through when she loses a pregnancy. After 4000 years of patriarchy and patriarchal religion, we need Goddess more and more.
I'm just so effing pissed about all the suffering in the world - and then you get some lame-assed politician who's deepest thought is what time to set the alarm for, insulting the bigger, better half of the human race - for fun.
Fucker.
(sorry about the rant. Sunday/sinus headache/reading the NYTimes will do that to ya!)
Sravana
I don't care what their deranged point is, the effect is that these men still, bottom line, think of us women as nothing but wombs, as evidenced by this attempt to criminalize miscarriages.
I saw a bumper sticker somewhere recently: I'll be post-feminist in the post-patriarchy
Damn straight. :)
I like that bumpersticker!
A while back I was considering a t-shirt for myself:
Liberal.
Feminist.
Democrat.
Quaker.
Of course, I'm not yet a Quaker (Sunday mornings are for sleeping!), but now, given some of the stuff I read on Salon... I'm not so sure I'm a Democrat. Nadar was right in some ways - and if the Dems can't confront the Reps and be the opposition, then who needs them?
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