All over the news today, the story of a 10-year-old rape victim who is pregnant.
The child, a resident of Ohio, had to travel to neighboring Indiana to have an abortion performed, as Ohio has banned abortion without exception after the sixth week of pregnancy.
Kentucky, with its whopping two clinics, shut their doors also.
So this baby, in this case also the rape victim, for those of you keeping up, has to go over to one of the few remaining places in the Midwest that you can get healthcare, critical fucking healthcare. Of course, we all know what the baby encountered when she got there.
Now, I can’t say for certain, but when I went with my homegirl, you had to watch this horrid little video explaining how your viable fetus was a baby, and there are loving parents to adopt, and some religious rhetoric. Law, here in Florida.
I sincerely hope they didn’t subject this baby to this shit, but more than likely, they did. It’s part of the package deal they offer you. A religious lecture, a little shaming, and here you are, ma’am. Watch out for the wackjobs on the way out.
Now, here are my thoughts. Fuck yes, this pregnancy should have been prevented to begin with, the second the rape was reported. But, fuck, we don’t know how long reporting took. Who her rapist is. What the fuck is really going on.
She could have been 4 months pregnant before her momma realized it, called the cops, and now what?
Well, the State of Ohio says “fuck you, little miss”, and we all go on as though this isn’t a fucking problem?
No, this is a fucking problem.
Now, I’ve not said much other than offering aid to women who need me in the general scope of running my normal railroad through here. But on this, y’all know.
Y’all know I dealt with my own fucking atrocities. My own nightmares. God forbid some shit like this would have happened.
Listen my stomach just cramped up writing that. I can tell you right the fuck now, the shit that I went through coming forward, and just to have that piece of shit go free, not so much as a fucking hand slap…
Let’s just say it really did some shit to your girl. But in a case such as this poor baby, pregnant with this fuckers baby and the pieces of shit in charge of keeping you safe say, “mmm…nope. Let’s just see how it pans out instead, huh?”
Man, listen, if you have any part of you that thinks this fuckery is okay, leave my fucking column. Do it right now. I’m not even fucking around at this point.
This is beyond a fucking travesty. This is the absolute most vile situation you could imagine, and if I were the baby’s pediatrician, I would have written the fucking script myself, and fuck anyone who doesn’t like it.
There’s some shit that you can say has a blurred line of right or wrong. Bitch, this is as black and white as it gets, no matter who in the fuck you are or where you’re from, or if you wipe front to back or not.
We’ve crossed the fucking line y’all. The day I knew was coming when South Carolina hit us with that bullshit ass heartbeat bill is here.
God help us. And not in his name, because some fucking right wing nutjob is bound to hold that against us, too.
There are no words for the white hot rage that has gripped me since this ruling. Rare is the moment that catches me inarticulate. These are dangerous days.
I keep thinking of a line from Hamilton: "And? If we gain our independence? Is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?"
And still we march on. And on. And on. What is it about childbearing that makes other folks with zero stake in that woman's life suddenly feel like they have a right to dictate whether she even gets to keep that life once a holy sacred sperm happens to her, no matter the consequences? Why? Why do people think it's their business? Why do they even care what a stranger does to her own body?? I could scream.
I wish I had a direction to point all this impotent fury but there is nothing. My voice is not one that matters, not even to most of the people that know me. Call me Cassandra; they are forever treating me like I'm a hysterical fatalist who over exaggerates the risks or dark sides of a situation and then conveniently forget that I'm always right when I say I see some shit coming down. I predicted the insurrection and attempted coup a full 2.5 years before it happened. I see a dark road now. This will get so much worse. We are in grave danger, all of us.
I urge every woman to do at least one of two things: stop having sex with men except for procreation purposes, and move to states unlikely to restrict access or charge you for murder when your period is late (west coast, here you come). No more babies forced to have babies.
Me, I'm glad I'm fixed. I had my 2 and done. I would recommend any woman who isn't planning to have any (or more) kids do the same. It's not hard, you're fine in 2 days. No more baby factory. No more potential forced suicide by pregnancy gone awry. No more threat of jailtime for natural body functions or saving your own life.
Best of luck, sisters. We will need it.
I sincerely hope WACH of the Fuckwit Turdwookies who voted to pass this religious fascist "law" (which violates both their oaths to uphold the Constitution and basic human decency) end up with ectopic pregnancies and a coat hanger as their ONLY tool.