So it's come to this. The (mostly male) rabid right is so hopped up about restricting abortion that female elected officials now are sharing medical details that really are nobody's business.
We cats are of two minds about this. First, that it's good to put a face on the Americans who are exercising their Constitutional rights. Over the years, women obtaining the safe, legal abortions guaranteed by Roe v. Wade generally have remained anonymous and, therefore, have been easy for anti-choicers to demonize or ignore. How much simpler for religious maniacs who don't understand the separation of church and state to focus on the fetus — and make the burdened, sometimes traumatized, but almost always conflicted woman carrying it the sinister one.
On the other hand, though, it's a shame that one has to give up some of one's privacy in order to ultimately protect it. That's why we cats generally refrain from discussing any litters we may have lost.
However, there's one question that Congresswoman Speier's brave statement raises in our minds: Unwanted pregnancies — as well as wanted pregnancies that go awry — know no political party. Surely there are Republican women who have had abortions who are appalled at what's going on. Why don't they speak up?
We'll tell you why. Because any political party that would attempt to pass a state law justifying the murder of abortion providers obviously would — Sharia-like — stone its pro-choice females to death.
Hey, Republicans with wombs: What are you doing in that party?
UPDATE: Congresswoman Gwen Moore also spoke on the House floor of a personal abortion experience — and, in our view, had the quote of the day. After listening to a parade of GOP men rail against choice, the Wisconsin Democrat said, "I just couldn't resist letting them know that they didn't know what the hell they were talking about." We cats PURR.
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