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Eclipsed by the Conventions: Midnight Regulations Reduce Women To "A Uterus With Two Legs"

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Bush and the conservative religious right are at it again. In the hushed corridors of the West Wing, K-Street, and Congress, they meet in secret, writing regulations for enactment in the twilight hours of the imperial Bush presidency that would roll back the progress women have made in the 20th century and beyond.

The proposed change at the Department of Health would redefine some kinds of contraception as abortion, even contraception before implantation. Hospitals that offered such contraception would forfeit federal aid. They would also forfeit the aid if they refused to hire health professionals who opposed abortion or birth control. This regulatory change "could also undermine state laws that require hospitals to prove emergency contraception to rape victims," according to womensenews.

Frustrated by its failure to further infringe on the rights of women reproductive freedoms during the Bush administrations reign, the Religious Right has broadened its attack. No longer only content to overturn Roe v. Wade, Republican political operatives and religious conservatives seek the negation of Griswold v. Connecticut – the case which serves as the basis for Roe v. Wade. Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. By a vote of 7-2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the "right to marital privacy". Since Griswold, the Supreme Court has cited the right to privacy in several rulings, most notably in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). The Supreme Court ruled that a woman's choice to have an abortion was protected as a private decision between her and her doctor. Overturning Griswold v. Connecticut would effectively render Roe v. Wade "toothless" and its legal validity would most certainly be challenged before the Robert's Supreme Court – a court certain go further to the "right" under a McCain presidency.

Women's "freedom" to choose methods of reproductive control and independent family planning are under assault. Behind closed-door deals are underway to redefine and control women's access to contraception via insurance coverage restrictions. Ironically, Viagra will still be covered by drug plans. Horrifically, McCain's pro-life stance may mean the pill is murder.

Women, we are being given our walking papers back to the Dark Ages. If McCain plants one of these misogynistic "Neanderthals" on the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade will most certainly perish. Under such a ruling, it is conceivable that a woman could be legally designated as "potentially pregnant" throughout her reproductive years and subject to laws that control her behaviors with the intent of promoting fetal implantation. A miscarriage or birth defect could lead to suspicion and/or prosecution of a mother for 'child endangerment, manslaughter, or murder.' After all, pregnancy is the punishment a woman must pay for sex -- period. Why else deny her access to birth control? Why deny married women access to birth control? A woman will be reduced legally to not much more than a uterus with legs -- a receptacle for an 'citizen embryo' that possesses more rights under the law than she does.

Wake up. They are sneaking these regulations under the radar and it is a serious attack on women's human rights and civil liberties – government sanctioned. Before you know it, you will be reporting to the Office of Uterine Control for a chat.

They have launched a covert attack to take away a woman's ability to determine whether she will become a mother or not. It is forced servitude. Relegated to the status of a "birthing vessel" for all humanity, women will be left with few choices: give birth, self-inflict a miscarriage, seek a back-alley abortion, self-inflict sterilization to include a surgical hysterectomy, criminal castration of husband, or suicide.

Is this the future we want for our daughters? Contact HHS and your members of Congress.

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Undergraduate degree in political science and philosophy: summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; with postgraduate work in political economics. Postgraduate degree is a juris doctorate. I am a voracious reader and, although I make no claim to expertise, have self studied in logic, linguistics, theology, theoretical physics, macroeconomics, technical and fundamental market analysis, world history, and many other subjects, which I believed at the time helped explain the world around me.

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W.M.L.Undergraduate degree in political science and philosophy: summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; with postgraduate work in political economics. Postgraduate degree is a juris doctorate. I am a voracious reader and, although I make no claim to expertise, have self studied in logic, linguistics, theology, theoretical physics, macroeconomics, technical and fundamental market analysis, world history, and many other subjects, which I believed at the time helped explain the world around me.

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WHY THIS IS STILL AN ISSUE

So many years after the two seminal court decisions referenced in this article, a woman's right to control her own reproductive freedom should no longer even be an issue. But Amanda Lang nails down the reason this issue refuses to die when she points out, "It is forced servitude."

Men's groups contend the same, and have been since Roe v. Wade. Their question is why does a man's responsibility begin at conception, but a woman's begins at the time she decides if to abort. Whether the issue is about control of our bodies, or about equality, in either event, the male must be allowed to opt out of the pregnacy for custodial and support purposes so long as the right to abortion belongs solely to the female. Otherwise, for the male, the female decides whether, "It is forced servitude."

When the women's movement finally acknowledges it seeks to keep many of the advantages it had under the old order, such as child support and alimony, while acquiring a pretentious equality under the new order, then the movement will find many a new male adherent that it once had but now has lost.

Any man treated to the new realities of divorce court knows that there has never been greater bias in favor of women in U.S. history. Whether it is ex parte hearings for emergency injunctions based on domestic violence (which in most states takes merely a sworn statement of a fear of violence or a non-consensual touching, which can be anything) or alimony concealed in the federal guidelines as child support, nearly every male litigant walks away from a divorce regardless of fault with an unbearable financial burden, virtually no significant child visitation, and loss of home and hearth.

When the women's movement is ready to give up these advantages, then it will find the right to abortion finally safe. Until then, it will simply continue to create more and more angry men who decide to vote Republican.

For God's sake, the women's movement cannot even admit that women batter men, when it is the unspoken truth of the lesbian community that spousal battering is a significant problem. The movement is going to have to come clean if it wants to gain any support from more than the true believers working for the cause now. Frankly, there are more important issues at the moment than one that has brought on its own troubles, and the left should not let the feminist agenda splinter the greater movement for a second time. We should be long past such notions that women are more peaceful than men, or that paternalistic societies are to blame for war and profit. We see the same such traits in societies led by women, and historically, many societies deemed their women the best at torturing their captives, believing the males too willing to end the captive's suffering.

War, suffering, starvation, and most of the ills the world faces are not the result of patriarchy, but of unbridled capitalism in its final stages where nearly all power is concentrated in the hands of a very few families and political groups. The question for the progressives is how to take what has already been written about this situation and form an ideology that will protect individual human freedom within a communal context, a kind of merger of libertarianism and socialism with plenty of room for small enterprise and innovation. Feminists may note that in the Soviet Union abortion was free upon demand.

Finally, it should be noted that there need not be a revolution. We can treat the elite of the world just like they want to be treated. Guarantee them the best of everything for themselves and their heirs. Just like the Royal family in England. We can work from the ground up and rebuild an economy not based on war. We just need them to stop making war materiel, and instigating the wars that use it. It is their choice. Be kings forever, and for free, and free from fear, or forever fear us.

by W.M.L. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 399 comments) on Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 11:13:28 PM

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Amanda LangAmanda is a managing editor at OpEdNews and has worked with Rob Kall on the site since 2004. A retired research ethnographer specializing in organization and technological innovation and strategic business development, she now resides in Georgia where she builds and restores wooden and fiberglass boats with her husband, Tom, a retired electrical engineer. Amanda grew up in the Commonwealth of Kentucky on the 9AA that runs along the Ohio in an area that gave the world Larry Flynt, the Clooneys, R...

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Why are they attacking contraception?

All benefit from contraception, so why is it being targeted by Republican political conservatives and the Christian lobbyists? Condoms save lives. Let's just set the abortion issue aside for a moment, and look at this "contraception as abortion" issue. Very scary. In case anyone hasn't noticed, we have a big population problem leading to resource wars and AIDS is spreading into a new demographic of very young heterosexual teens. So why are they attacking contraception? Are you against contraception?

by Amanda Lang (23 articles, 13884 quicklinks, 431 diaries, 593 comments) on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 7:58:24 AM

MY PERSONAL POSITIONS

I am both pro-choice and in favor of publicly financed contraception and abortion, with the exception of abortion where the fetus is viable unless the health of the mother is at stake. Morally, I feel repugnant at the idea of abortion, but I and a female friend have had one together (her, more than I, of course), but I believe the decision is the woman's to make. However, no one has addressed the arguments I make that demonstrate the inequality produced by current law, such as the fact the male's responsibility for involuntary servitude attaches at conception but the female's attaches by choice sometime later. I am not against abortion. I am trying to help, if I can, the women's movement see its way clear to making this right permanent instead of constantly in danger. One commentator said she knows of some men that skated without child support payments. If that is the only rebuttal that can be formed against my arguments, then the movement should look seriously at the ideas I have written.

The religious right is a very small group overall in the United States. Only 13% of Americans identify themselves with the traditional Protestant Churches of America, and only a small number of them oppose abortion. The feminist agenda is held back by Republicans, not by the religious right. The Republicans need people to fight their wars and to consume their products, regardless of the outcome to the mothers or the environment. For them, a baby born into poverty is a sick baby and that is a profitable baby.

Take the time to study the statistics on abortion and unwed mothers from the days of the Soviet Union and you may find yourself quite surprised. When men are freed from the burden of child support for children they do not want, just as an abortion frees a woman, then abortion becomes a non-issue and many women decide to have children without the male becoming involved.

Whenever an issue becomes so hot button as the abortion issue, follow the money. Somewhere, somehow, someone is losing a lot of money because of the law that they want to see changed. Otherwise, they would not care what the law said one way or the other.

by W.M.L. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 399 comments) on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 9:59:17 PM

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They said

They [whoever the 'they' in they are] said first they'd go after abortion and then contraception, just like I said first they went after the smokers, then they'll go after the fatties.

Both happened, and they've been going after contraception ever since W. got into office, by disallowing countries who get foreign medical aid to even mention birth control, let alone dispense it.

I believe Clinton dispensed with that after taking over from Bush the First.

Of, course now they've been saying allow gays to marry and next men and women will want to marry their pets. The first two 'go afters' are logical, but marrying your stud Arabian? Highly doubtful, except for the rare whackos like people who propose marriage to prison lifers.

by Sandy Sand (175 articles, 0 quicklinks, 223 diaries, 1505 comments) on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 10:23:10 AM

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Linda BaileyI am a white female, 60 years old, and a school teacher. I live in the midwest. I have two grown children and 4 grandchildren. I am married. My husband has early onset of Alzheimer's Disease. I love governement and politics.

Burn

Women in this country will go to Washington D.C. and burn it down!! What two consenting adults do for birth control is no one's business but theirs! And I'll tell you that women will continue to have abortions no matter what. In view of the economic situation as it is, I don't understand this philosophy of the religious right. Who and how will these babies be cared for?? The "right" doesn't want the government interferring, yet that is exactly what it will take. For them, it's all about the pro life pro choice issue. Period. They don't care about our economic and health care crisis. I find this so hypocritical. The "right" doesn't do 1/4 of what the Bible tells them to do, but on this topic, they are on it like white on rice. Why? Why this topic?

And W.M.I., not all men walk away from divorce with having to pay child support, health care expenses, and the like. I know several who escaped their responsiblities.

by Linda Bailey (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 52 comments) on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 10:51:56 AM

Another Solution

Women could just say "no" to sex!!! Let's see how the men would like that!

by Linda Bailey (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 52 comments) on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 10:57:33 AM

Or...

Women may not be able to opt for a legal abortion, but no law says they can't have a hysterectomy. It's my uterus, so it's my way or no way.

by Amanda Lang (23 articles, 13884 quicklinks, 431 diaries, 593 comments) on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 11:03:28 AM

I am a child advocate w/20 years law enforcement experience. I am also the adoptive mother of 3 severely abused children and the author of 2 books, "BLINDERS" and "Where's Mario? One Small Child, One Small Book, One Huge Problem."
Jane LeMond-AlvarezI am a child advocate w/20 years law enforcement experience. I am also the adoptive mother of 3 severely abused children and the author of 2 books, "BLINDERS" and "Where's Mario? One Small Child, One Small Book, One Huge Problem."

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I am a 40 something women living 100% off grid in the high desert of far west Texas, I love the freedom I have, not being connected to the "grid" is one of the most liberating experiences I have ever had. I enjoy being independent and SELF SUFFICIENT!
Wretha SmithI am a 40 something women living 100% off grid in the high desert of far west Texas, I love the freedom I have, not being connected to the "grid" is one of the most liberating experiences I have ever had. I enjoy being independent and SELF SUFFICIENT!

What about the baby's rights???

People talk about the woman's rights, what about the BABY's rights? I have NOTHING against contraception, PREVENTING pregnancy, I do not consider abortion a method of contraception, it is what it is, killing an unborn baby.

I do not understand, if someone is driving drunk, hits a car with a pregnant women inside and kills or injures the mother and baby, the drunk driver is held accountable for BOTH lives, yet that same women can go into a clinic and choose to end the life of her unborn baby just because it's inconvenient for her to have a baby.

There are always exceptions, if there are medical issues, the mother may die as a result of carrying to term, in the cases of rape or incest (hopefully the pregnancy is terminated very early).

I grew up in a poor family, I was sexually active at a young age, BUT I KNEW HOW TO NOT GET PREGNANT, there is/was no "Oops, I accidentally got pregnant, I don't know how this happened...oh well, let's just get rid of it, life goes on (for me)."

At 12 weeks, this baby is only about 3 inches long, yet this baby is growing nails on all 10 fingers and toes.

Please, let's stop making this an issue about "woman's rights" and start looking at the baby's rights, do whatever it takes to PREVENT pregnancy if you are not ready to become a parent.

This isn't a religious thing, this isn't a conservative thing, this is a life and life should be sacred, after all, if you are reading this, your mother chose to carry you to full term and give birth to you, she didn't throw you away just because it was inconvenient for her to be pregnant at the time...

by Wretha Smith (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 10:42:00 PM

That's a fact, Jack!

Abortion stops the beating heart of your child – no matter how you look at it.

That’s a fat, Jack!

It’s my body and I will do what I want to it! Really? I read an article by California Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg “who warned in a speech that the danger of women losing their reproductive rights is higher now than at any point in the past 30 years, unless activists immediately work to prevent that from happening.”

I was saddened that her message was nothing more than an attempt to spark a furor to make women feel they are doomed to be nothing more than reproductive machines, to be forced out of the workplace and back into the home. Women have many choices in this country. Is it so bad to be a stay-at-home mother during your child’s formative years? Providing a stable home during this time might make the difference in whether your child becomes a productive adult in our society with values and ethics as opposed to one that becomes a burden to society or committing crimes.

Laws such as the “Unborn Victims of Violence Act,” the “late-term abortion ban” and “re-instating a law that prohibits foreign health organizations that receive U.S. money from mentioning abortion” is a long time coming. Does anyone really disagree that the most innocent of human beings, the unborn and young, should be protected? Or that aborting a human being, as it is being delivered, should have an instrument inserted into his or her head to end their life is a good thing? Or that educating other countries about the value of life and prevention of pregnancy is a bad thing? Children are not property. They are responsibilities.

I have come to the conclusion that we live in a world that makes excuses for many and holds few accountable for their actions. Ladies, we have not lost our reproductive rights. Barring certain tragedies such as rape and incest where abortions may be performed, we still have the right to choose with whom we have sex, what contraceptive to use, whether or not we want to have a career, and yes, the right to end the life of a defenseless human being.

Mothers have been the pillars of society for centuries. Let us educate our young men and women and hold them to a higher standard without excuses. Let us rid ourselves of the “Me, Me, Me” mentality when we’re inconvenienced. What we have lost is our ethics and the value we place on life. We have lost our feelings for the helpless, defenseless and for our future generations.

I had an abortion in 1972. It was and is the most unethical and reprehensible act I have ever done. I aborted my daughter. I live with it each day of my life.

I witnessed the birth of my fourth grandson. My doctor had recommended that I abort his father 32 years ago because of a stroke I had suffered months before. Against the doctor’s advice, I chose not to abort . I didn’t need Wade vs. Roe to make my decision. Even though I had a legal right to end my son’s life, as a mother, how could I? I didn’t. My son is a wonderful human being, husband and the father of two of my four grandsons.

It won't be long before we will be reporting facts like this: Check out the December 15,2006, 10 million girl children killed in India: UNICEF report that says:

"Today, we have the odd distinction of having lost 10 million girl children in the past 20 years," Chowdhury said pointing out: "Who has killed these girl children? Their own parents....."

"The minute the child is born and she opens her mouth to cry, they put sand into her mouth and her nostrils so she chokes and dies," the Minister said......

"They bury infants into pots alive and bury the pots. They put tobacco into her mouth. They hang them upside down like a bunch of flowers to dry," she said.....

India is but one country that I've reported on...I can report many similar facts in other countries. But we are America...the greatest nation on earth. Folks, just look at the U.S. National Statistics involving what we do AFTER we give birth! Women, we should hang our heads in shame on our attitudes towards our helpless children, particulary those in our wombs depending on us for their survival.

DIRECT COSTS OF CHILD ABUSE:

Hospitalization $6,205,395,000

Chronic Health Problems $2,987,957,400

Mental Health Care System $ 425,110,400

Child Welfare System $14,400,000,000

Law Enforcement $ 24,709,000

Judicial System $ 341,174,702

Total Direct Costs $24,384,347,302

INDIRECT COSTS OF CHILD ABUSE:

Special Education $ 223,607,830

Mental Health & Health Care $4,627,636,025

Juvenile Delinquency $8,805,291,372

Lost Productivity to Society $ 656,000,000

Adult Criminality $55,380,000,000

Total Indirect Costs $69,692,535,227

TOTAL: $94,076,882,50

You can get an abortion...you are not a uterus on legs...you are woman and have great power...use it wisely, please do not abort because you are "inconvenienced." Less than a handful of people died of mad cow disease and it hit national news......If this is not an epidemic, I don't know what is!

by Jane LeMond-Alvarez (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments) on Monday, August 25, 2008 at 12:07:07 PM

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Bull f*cking sh*t.

"However, no one has addressed the arguments I make that demonstrate the inequality produced by current law, such as the fact the male's responsibility for involuntary servitude attaches at conception but the female's attaches by choice sometime later."

The male's responsibility for involuntary servitude begins at the moment he fails to keep his dick in his pants. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, jackass.

by daveys (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 16 diaries, 176 comments) on Monday, August 25, 2008 at 1:17:16 PM

Bull's Comments

Who are you responding to? There are many women who feel that men's rights have been vigoriously violated.....

by Jane LeMond-Alvarez (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments) on Monday, August 25, 2008 at 8:39:29 PM

W.M.L.

The quote I was responding to was written by WML in the purple post.

When he can carry a baby to term and deliver the baby, we'll talk about men's rights concerning child support etc. Any man who has sex with any woman better be prepared to be a father, because no method of birth control is 100% effective. If the woman chooses, she can abort. It is her decision to make, and I do not understand why men want to have a say (unless they want to completely assume all care of the baby).

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Womens rights, bullshit

This is the post I just placed in reply to the Doctor who wrote that life begins when the brain is formed in the fetus, estimated at 14-24 weeks (I may not have that time correct.) Woman must learn to exercise her reproductive rights, by refusing to create a child with ANY ONE, under any circumstances until she is a marriage committed to the raising of Children. Life is NOT aobut recreational sex, sorry. We are a failed civilization on this planet because of the total disregard for life in every possible areas. And we are doomed to destruction once again. This is the 5th failed civilization on this planet, happens every 13,000 years like clockwork, when we enter the photon belt, if not before. WE are facing some very uncomfortable times ahead, one again. Nuking others and the planet is WRONG. War is wrong. Eating animals is wrong unless still at hunter-gatherer stage. Poluting the planet with hydrocarbons, pesticides and all the rest is wrong. To bring a child into the world, is co creation with God, and thus, as below, lIFE truly begins before conception, in careful planning. The fetus is not normal in mind actually when created in rape and irresponsibility. It must have love throughout the entire pregnancy to be fully normal in all regards. Many, many miscarriages on this planet are completely related to conception without love occuring after the fact. It's not all "DNA" in that.

I was created without love, by either parent. My mother tried to abort me unsuccessfully and never stopped blaming me for being born, and not one day did she ever consider her own actions. I took that incarnation anyway, (against advice, for the experience of being on the short end of bad parents), and the abuse continued on. At birth, incarnation or not, that child that i entered into, should have in a better society been taken away and placed with responsible people, and my mother and father sterilized. She went on to have many miscarriages and 4 more live births and every single one of us has had our problems. Life begins before birth. My father, I should say here, they did not marry, the other four were with another man. My father never fully got it either, the idea of responsibility in creating life. He left others and was not there for them.

OK, here's the post I made previously mentioned above.

Any society in the far flug universe that makes it ok to have abortion on demand, and ok to see abortion as something not much different from menstration is a society that has so little respect for life, that it will become a failed civilization and we have that already here on this planet.

Responsible civilzations teach their kids that life is sacred, and you do not hit the hay with no plan for the life you may create from that act. It technically thus begins before conception.

There are societies in this universe that so respect life, that they will not even engage in sexual intercourse unless the couple has been bonded for a very long time, and then makes a permanent marriage for the sole purpose of bringing children into the world, and raising them respectfully in loving family and societal care. These people KNOW they are co creating a new soul with God.

This planet lives in death and darkness and it will remain that way, until the people decide to take responsibility for the creation of life. To have sexual intercourse is sacred, and until it is sacred and not recreation, we will have problems with "life" as it should be on this planet.

Until man grows in respect for life (both sexes) they are still less than animals. On this planet, the animals sense of survival is not for self but for their children. Man needs to get to that place, he forgot that rule of nature. Animals never have their children just for sexual whims and pleasure. Animals do not have sex for pleasure as does man. They come into season and of course they don't know how to just say no, but when their children are born, (and you best consider their progency "children"), they do NOT abandon their young, except of course in some of the lower animals who have other survival methods), and their goal becomes the survival of these children, and less interest in survival of self. They KNOW, call it instinct or not, I don't care, they know that the kids must survive for their race to survive. Everything goes to this, the survival of the next generation and in fact, that is there in all life in some manner.

We have not reached that base knowing that the children must be provided for, as a society of people who have separated themselves from God and nature. This is our major problem on this planet and the lack of respect for life in all ways. It is flat gross. Young people must be shown moral behavior. It is not ever right to thoughtlessly create life. If the person must have sex, then contraception must be used. And there is exactly nobody that truly needs sex. Man is supposed to be above the animals, so he thinks, but is indeed less than the animals.

Respect for life begins long before that egg and sperm get together, thus life truly begins before conception, if we truly care about life. We care not. It is not ever about when life begins. It is about the intentional planning for life long before the deed. Any fool can have sex and start a baby, and one day, those fools will be sterilized, because of total lack of respect for life.

The is why there is the idea in the bible of NO premarital sex. People not married and bonded over a long period are generally totally irresponsible regards their reproduction. And on advanced planets, this child when born to this type of couple, who are not bonded, is removed and placed for adoption in an evironment where life is respected, and the ones, both of them that had sex minus maturity are sterilzed and so be it. Look at the complete devastation on this planet because of lack of respect for life, even unto the life of the planet itself, which is polluted almost unto her death. We fuck her everytime we get into our cars.

Where is the responsibity of man/woman? Not until life is respected, and that includes before conception, will man become HUman. Higher Universal Man. Until he gives up also meat eating, he will not be Higher Universal Man either. Same lack of respect for life, in the way he raises the animals he consumes. At least the "caveman" respects the animal soul he takes for his needs, but modern man has no idea of the slavery of the animal raised for food. What a sad legacy this failed civilization has created. Candace Frieze, creator of Abundanthope. www.abundanthope.net/pages.

by Candace Frieze (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 27 comments) on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 11:18:57 PM