Happy "Sanctity of Human Life Day"! (not)

[spacefem]

Thank goodness our favorite president is in office a few more hours to celebrate this gem of a holiday: National Sanctity of Human Life Day.

It's about celebrating our "moral values" and protecting the most vulnerable in society, so on and so on. But there's nothing that would answer the questions I have about the sanctity of life. For example, why didn't the proposed Colorado amendment from the 2008 elections have any mention of protecting a woman's life, when a fertilized egg becomes lodged in her fallopian tube until she bleeds to death? Or if you're so concerned with making sure all life is welcome in this world, why is the federal government continuing to fund abstinence-only education that has no evidence of preventing teen pregnancy?

Or here's one... if life is so precious, should we maybe stop and think before invading a country of 2,000,000 people that had little to nothing to do with the 9-11 terrorist attacks?

Just throwing those ideas out there for clarification, I do love the sanctity of human life but something seems quirky here. In a violent country where children go without food and healthcare while we fund wars overseas, it seems like the pre-born would be the least of our worries... unless, that is, you could use them as an excuse to restrict women's freedoms. Which you can! How convenient!

Editor's note: I had linked to the whitehouse press release for this article: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases ... 18-10.html But the link no longer works because there's been some kind of CHANGE today, January 20 2009. Thank you Obama web team, I love you!

[Isis]

Wow. Really? Wow. What a jerk move, make inauguration day a national day for something the new President doesn't support. "We will strive to change hearts and minds with compassion and decency..." because THOSE are the two words I would pick to describe the last 8 years. Nice move, W. Destroy the only possible hope your party has of winning an election for the next 20 years.

[Freya]

There is nothing quite like insincerity, is there?

[DruidX]

America was founded on the belief that all men are created equal

Well, there's the key problem in the whole argument isn't it? Only /men/ are allowed to be equal. [/bitchy sarcasm] I just got hassled in the street on my way home from work, this has not engendered joyous feeling in me towards the rest of the human race, especially not tosspots who strut around with smug grins on their faces playing at pretending to be nice while violating civil liberties and generally fucking up the country [I don't know much about Bush, that was aimed at Gordon Brown - we the British people have a right to re-elect a government every 4 years, same as yanks. The current government has been in power for 6 against the wishes of the people and they don't look set to change that]

...That may have been offtopic a little.

[Tookie]

Gah. Abstinence education gets me every time.

Here, abortion is kind of a done issue - yeah, there's still people who oppose it (ie. our prime minister) but in reality, it's not going to be criminalized any time soon. And I know that's not the case in the States, but there's not really anything I can do about that. So I haven't gotten as worked up about it as I have in the past.

Proper sex ed, on the other hand...

Don't fuck with education.

[DWH]

You know, I'm in favor of abstinence and all (in my own case, I'm not interested in telling any of the rest of you how to live your lives), but that's a real jerkass thing to do. "Hey everyone! We've got a new President from the enemy camp- er, the other party. Let's bring in his term with a whole bunch of anti-abortion demonstrations. Be sure to remind everyone that their new President sacrifices babies!"

Dubya, ladies and gentlemen. Keeping it classy.

[Butterfly North]

Well, there's the key problem in the whole argument isn't it? Only /men/ are allowed to be equal. [/bitchy sarcasm] I just got hassled in the street on my way home from work, this has not engendered joyous feeling in me towards the rest of the human race, especially not tosspots who strut around with smug grins on their faces playing at pretending to be nice while violating civil liberties and generally fucking up the country [I don't know much about Bush, that was aimed at Gordon Brown - we the British people have a right to re-elect a government every 4 years, same as yanks. The current government has been in power for 6 against the wishes of the people and they don't look set to change that]

...That may have been offtopic a little.

We have the right to a general election every 5 years, and the last election was in 2005 so it's only been 3 actually. I get what you're saying though, Brown should have at least been... y'know... elected. A bit.

And ugh, just when you thought Bush was going to go away forever.

[katrinioso]

He just had to make Sanctity of Human Life Day the same day as Penguin Awareness Day. Ignorant swine.

I guess we could merge the two and celebrate "Sanctity of Penguins" day. And three days before my birthday, too. And the inauguration! Alright! Epic birthday week!

[aka_laura]

I would fully support a holiday honoring the sanctity of penguins...but yeah, this day is fairly ridiculous. How about Republican support for cutting social programs that make it possible for people to get by and lack of support for universal health care? That's what I find the most annoying about their policies. The philosophy is that you have a unquestionable right to be born, and after we have a right to screw you in every way possible. Good luck babies!

[sarcasticgal1221]

That made me so upset to read... just, GAH!

thank god he's just gone. Gone, gone gone!

[edit the sad parts]

What a tosser.

[spacefem]

I just got a text from a friend of mine who was on this site... THE PRESS RELEASE I LINKED TO IS A BROKEN LINK NOW!!! you all saw it, it was legit, but in the hours since we switched presidents, whitehouse.gov has been de-stupid-holiday-ized!

CHANGE!

i love it!

[rowan]

still in google cache for those who want evidence

yay for de-stupidification though!!

[Ashworth]

For example, why didn't the proposed Colorado amendment from the 2008 elections have any mention of protecting a woman's life, when a fertilized egg becomes lodged in her fallopian tube until she bleeds to death?

Wait... What? WHAT!?!? Are you serious? Can anybody give me a link to an article about this, because this just seems beyond ridiculous. How can they justify letting a functioning member of society die for the sake of a tiny glob of cells that doesn't even have any reasonable possibility of becoming a human!?