The Queen's Rambles

I would really like to do something drastic. Shoot someone. Spit in someone’s face. That sort of thing.

Just to clarify this post is specifically about local fanatic abortion protesters who are specifically targeting a late term abortion doctor. This is not about abortion protesters in general.

Our town has recently become host to a late term abortion doctor. According to state laws late term abortions are only allowed in two cases: 1) The mother’s life is in danger or 2) The fetus has major fetal defects (and I’m not talking Downs Syndrome here. I’m talking the child will not likely live beyond a few hours or if the child does live it will have almost no quality of life.)

The doctor practices in the same complex that our ped is in.

The abortion protesters? They are the people I want to shoot.

Logically I understand how people can be anti-abortion. It comes down to a fundamental difference in the way we view a fetus. They see a baby and truly believe it is murder and that they should do something about it. I truly believe it is a lump of cells that has the potential of becoming a human life but is not yet a person. We could argue this day and night, but my mind will not be changed.

So these protesters? They are specifically protesting the late term abortion doc, which just pisses me off because DUH! They are fucking idiots. Sorry, but that’s the only word for it. If a woman has the choice of dying and having her babies die or just having her babies die, how is that even a choice? The woman is going to be in mourning for years, but at least she will be alive to care for her other children or try to have more kids.

Of course the case of fetal deformities is a little different. There is a choice, but it is so very, very personal. I’ve known a few people via the internet who chose to terminate rather than carry to term and I don’t blame them a bit. I probably would terminate as well if I were in that situation. I do not like pain, I do not like being pregnant. I do not think I could handle the prolonged emotional pain of carrying a child that I knew would either be stillborn or die shortly after birth. I just couldn’t do it. How dare anyone try to deny me that choice?

So these idiots are all over the place over at the complex with the most gruesome, disgusting, disturbing signs you’d ever care to see. I, of course, can look past them but my five year old son is being exposed to them. They are right by a pediatric office, so no telling how many children are looking at these horrible signs. I don’t understand how such signs are even legal. It surely doesn’t make me sympathetic to their cause. It just makes me angry. Beyond angry.

And their protest is just so damned ignorant. I don’t approve of abortion protesters just on principal. If they can go and protest in a way that doesn’t scare the hell out of the woman seeking services, then fine. I suppose this is a free country. I follow a couple of abortion rights blogs and the things certain fanatic protesters do would curl your toes. I sincerely doubt most anti-abortion folks would approve of their methods.

I almost want to change peds just to protect Erik, but in the end I think it is more important that these assholes not win. They want the businesses in the complex to be hurt, thus they might kick out the late term abortion doctor. We can’t let the bastards win. Maybe I can put a blindfold over Erik’s eyes tomorrow? I’ve already adjusted my driving route so we don’t go by there, which pisses me off.

And I just keep going back to calling them idiots. They don’t even understand what they are protesting! They seem to believe that women who are 30 weeks pregnant just suddenly decide they don’t want to have a baby and go in for an abortion like other women go in for a pedicure. They don’t understand anything about the laws or the process. How can they be so blindly, willfully ignorant and yet so very passionate?

Can you tell I want to scream? Loudly. If I didn’t have kids I would be over there in a heart beat, acting as an escort for the woman who use the services at the clinic. The women going into the clinic are not even the people having abortions. They are getting birth control and other health services.