A is for abortion

You know those pictures that anti-choice people hold up at rallies.. you know, the ones that have pictures of mashed up fetuses next to a quarter or a bunch of limb nubs neatly arranged on some kind of tray. I always wonder about the person who does the arranging. I mean, who is the person who takes these photos? Does that guy get paid or does he just do it for love of the movement? Who gives them these fetuses? Is the guy behind the camera advising him to move this little leg to the left a little so it can be in frame? And do they go to, like, Kinko's to enlarge these photos?

Dunno if you heard, but a famous "baby executioner," Dr. George Tiller, was recently shot and killed while he was - get this - at church, by someone who probably - get this - thought God told him to do it. God, get your story straight. Tiller was known for providing late-term abortions in Wichita, Kansas. He even had a website, which is currently offline with a message asking us to respect their privacy.

The anti-choice people are smugly spinning this as a chicken's-come-home-to-roost story, saying (without saying) that he was finally executed the way that he'd executed all those poor little babies. The word execution brings to mind images of little tiny babies getting guillotined, which - I'm pretty sure - isn't what happened.

But a zygote isn't a baby. A blastocyst isn't a baby. A fetus isn't a baby. But I don't even want to talk about what obstetrics and gynecology tell us, I want to talk about the fact that the moment a baby comes into the world, the same people who were decrying its rights, now believe that it should be subject to the country they've created: a country where that child could someday be sentenced to the death penalty (especially if that child is brown and poor - and if the child is a he and is unfortunate enough to be poor and brown, then there's a better chance he'll end up in prison than in college). That child will be born into a country whose politicians advocate for deforestation, a country that hosts hundreds of Congress people who will consider the child a leech if it requires any kind of public assistance, whose mother could be in debt for 10 years if there are complications at birth, whose mother will be given no pay for her time-off taken to have the child, and where that child - if he becomes homeless - will be given work applications (not shiny pennies or t-shirts that say "Thank God You Weren't Aborted") by Christians driving past his cardcoard house on their way to church. (No, by the way the work apps was not an exaggeration. I remember the congregants of my own childhood church bragging about how they gave homeless people work applications.)

It seems to me that the moment you're out the pussy, the people who cared enough about your little baby soul to kill doctors are eager for you to grow the fuck up in our nation under God shaped by nut-bag Republicans.

Bah! Damn fetus lovers. You can't say that life is sacred and put more people in prison than any other country in the world, you idiots. And you can't say you love babies when you clearly are the ones behind the creepy fetus limb picture-taking, you sick fucks.