AW: Morning post 10(?)

I haven't had enough coffee to fully wake up yet. I'm already upset with the universe. Well, not the universe but the idiot politicians who seem to think that they can legislate women's health. And the anger just spills over into other areas. I have tried doing some spinning to calm down. It sort of works. All of this business about people placing a fetus over a living person makes me furious. Birth is a complicated and messy thing. Everything about pregnancy is complicated and messy. So is conception. But, for some stupid reason, these legislators seem to think they can do things like ban birth control medication and very important medical procedures 'for the children.'

My best friend nearly died from hemorrhaging during her period. She had to get a D&C to stop her from bleeding to death. I've been on some form of birth control for years to control migraines and the symptoms of PCOS. But we're all hussies who just want to have some morally bankrupt doctor vacuum out the babies that we are morally responsible for regardless of how they are conceived, the life circumstances, or the medical dangers of pregnancy. I am sickened with the wave of anti-abortion laws popping up in this country. It puts the lives of people with a uterus in danger.

I read a story of a woman who was in the midst of a miscarriage late in her pregnancy. The fetus was stuck. The fetus was very deceased. The doctor called a judge to get an order signed so that he could perform an abortion and the judge decided that this poor woman was not in sufficient danger of bleeding out and refused to sign the order. The woman laid in the hospital and bled for 18 hours. This damn near killed her. This was before Roe v. Wade. Now, this manner of barbarism is coming back into the picture.

I damn my social phobia for keeping me from being a more active voice against this pro-birth movement. These people claim to be pro-life but it is a straight up lie. They are doing nothing to help the infants born into poverty. They are doing nothing to help the orphans and other children who are in the foster care system waiting for families. They are not pro-life if they are advocating women who have miscarriages be treated like murderers in states where murder is a crime that carries the risk of the death penalty.

When the hell did people decide that A Handmaid's Tale was an instructional manual? What fresh hell is waiting for us tomorrow? The Georgia laws are turning women into chattel again. The very concept that they can be prosecuted for getting a medical procedure out of state is against the laws of the constitution that regulate interstate commerce. But, even more so, they are implying that women are the property of the state by denying them freedom of travel and bodily autonomy.

What's next? What is fucking next? Who needs a horror novel with all of this shit unfolding all around us?