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mississippi personhood amendment and what you can do
All right. I'm guessing most people seen the post on Mississippi's proposed Personhood Amendment that's being passed around, given that it's shown up on my flist roughly ten times now. The Amendment to the state constitution would define "personhood" to begin at fertilization (of an egg, personhood to a fertilized egg), which not only makes abortion illegal but effectively criminalizes women who have miscarriages and outlaws birth control. Once this law passes, the fertilized egg would be more protected by law than the woman carrying it. And any number of terrible laws could follow, if this law came into effect. It is also unconstitutional, given Roe v. Wade, but the law is basically being passed in order to challenge that decision. That is, once the law is in effect, it is up to those who suffer under it to bring a case against the law and to fight it in court, where the people backing the Amendment will have an opportunity to overturn the current (binding Supreme Court) decision that allows legal abortions.
In case you haven't heard of it and you want to, you can read more about the proposed amendment at the Wake Up, Mississippi site or in the news. (There are a lot of great articles and blogposts that probably say it better than I can.) I don't have the money to donate at the moment, but I did write to the Democratic National Committee. If you're in the US, you can too. Hell, if you're not in the US but you want to, go ahead and borrow my zip to do it (27614). It's not much, but it's about more than just spreading awareness - it's about pushing our purported representatives, the ones in power - to actually hear our voices and react to them. It's really, really easy. Just click the link to the DNC, fill in the most basic info (your name and zip), and submit your question demanding why Democrats are supporting this Amendment and why more Democrats aren't actively, publicly opposing it.
You can c/p mine, even, if you want. It's not great, since I wrote it off the cuff. It doesn't do a great job expressing just how dangerous the Amendment can be or my disgust/outrage at how vile the people who believe and support this are, but if it can serve as a template or inspiration, go for it:
Again, the DNC contact page.
The FB page of Wake Up, Mississippi for conversations and updates.
Maybe we should write to the Republicans too. It might have less of an effect, but they deserve to know that the people they are representing (i.e., the entire constituency, not just the ultra-conservatives) do not necessarily agree with them. In fact, many of us disagree. Our voices should be no less loud than those who are pushing for the passage of laws like this all over the country (including a bill to prevent Obama's health care plan from paying for abortions, which passed the House today). It's both sickening and infuriating. Man, do not get me started on partisan moral politics. Depressing stuff.
In other news: I baked cookies. Pinboard improvements continue to make me happy. And I finally saw the SNSD English teaser for the song Boys - which is awful. I'm sorry, it sounds terrible. (Like someone elsewhere on the internet said: Who who WHO LET THE BOYS OUT?) But holy smokes, do I see a short-haired blonde Sunny looking like absolute sex? DO WANT. Also, 2/3 of SNSD on Running Man Eps 63 and 64 are out and subbed now. I know what I'm doing tomorrow!
In case you haven't heard of it and you want to, you can read more about the proposed amendment at the Wake Up, Mississippi site or in the news. (There are a lot of great articles and blogposts that probably say it better than I can.) I don't have the money to donate at the moment, but I did write to the Democratic National Committee. If you're in the US, you can too. Hell, if you're not in the US but you want to, go ahead and borrow my zip to do it (27614). It's not much, but it's about more than just spreading awareness - it's about pushing our purported representatives, the ones in power - to actually hear our voices and react to them. It's really, really easy. Just click the link to the DNC, fill in the most basic info (your name and zip), and submit your question demanding why Democrats are supporting this Amendment and why more Democrats aren't actively, publicly opposing it.
You can c/p mine, even, if you want. It's not great, since I wrote it off the cuff. It doesn't do a great job expressing just how dangerous the Amendment can be or my disgust/outrage at how vile the people who believe and support this are, but if it can serve as a template or inspiration, go for it:
Why aren't more of our representatives speaking out about the Personhood Amendment (Amendment 26) in Mississippi, which not only abolishes abortion but effectively outlaws birth control and criminalizes women who have miscarriages? Why do we have Democrats supporting such a huge violation of human rights and, in particular, women's rights? (To say nothing of how unconstitutional this law is, given Roe v. Wade.) I encourage more Democrats, particularly those in power and who purport to represent us, to educate themselves on this affront to human rights and to speak out against it. Thank you.
Again, the DNC contact page.
The FB page of Wake Up, Mississippi for conversations and updates.
Maybe we should write to the Republicans too. It might have less of an effect, but they deserve to know that the people they are representing (i.e., the entire constituency, not just the ultra-conservatives) do not necessarily agree with them. In fact, many of us disagree. Our voices should be no less loud than those who are pushing for the passage of laws like this all over the country (including a bill to prevent Obama's health care plan from paying for abortions, which passed the House today). It's both sickening and infuriating. Man, do not get me started on partisan moral politics. Depressing stuff.
In other news: I baked cookies. Pinboard improvements continue to make me happy. And I finally saw the SNSD English teaser for the song Boys - which is awful. I'm sorry, it sounds terrible. (Like someone elsewhere on the internet said: Who who WHO LET THE BOYS OUT?) But holy smokes, do I see a short-haired blonde Sunny looking like absolute sex? DO WANT. Also, 2/3 of SNSD on Running Man Eps 63 and 64 are out and subbed now. I know what I'm doing tomorrow!
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Seriously something wrong with the world.
Our religious beliefs trumps your human rights. No. Just no.
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alskdfd ugh people, sometimes.
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Also: OMFG THAT ABORTION THING. I can't even. Ugh. IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO LOGICAL SENSE!!!!! FUCK YOUR GODDAMN MORALITY. STOP BRINGING YOUR RELIGION/PERSONAL VIEWPOINTS/ETC. INTO THE CLEAR RATIONAL LAW. =_= Rawr.
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Ugh ugh ugh I went to the website of the Personhood Amendment and the total crap they spew in favor of it makes me so furious. Write to the DNC! Our politicians need some freaking accountability.
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@_@ I haven't found the banners! Where exactly did you put them?
Yeah I'm on it~ Except I'm not sending them a form letter - form letters get routinely ignored and/or clumped together.
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Also, yeah, saw the news of ZQ last night and in other news, water is wet. I had a moment of LOL though when a friend posted the news on her FB wall and one of her friends freaked out about it like OMG WHAAAAT I NEVER WOULD'VE GUESSED WHAAAAAT.
LOL.
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Hahaha, yeah it was like, good for him and I'm glad he didn't make a big deal out of it because well...WE ALL KNEW. Or you'd think we did. Can't believe there are people out there that didn't. So glad I found out though, because the article/interview is awesome. I LOVE his perspective on OWS! Exactly what I was thinking. Glad that he had such an intelligent criticism of it while still understanding where they were coming from, instead of just mindlessly throwing his support behind it like I've seen other left wing celebs do.
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yeah it's nice that he's not blindly supporting it bc sure there are a lot of things that can be legitimately criticized about ows. but idk, mlk was someone who was very divisive too. sometimes we need some divisiveness because unity is overrated. i don't need any fucking unity or bipartisanship or making nice with people like the republicans in congress who think a woman has no right to her own body.
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See my problem with OWS and why I like ZQ's statement on it, is that they're being so indecisive about their diviseness =\. I mean, MLK was a very divisive person in that his opinion/views and the civil rights movement in general were very polarizing but the movement itself had a clear goal and purpose. They weren't specifically targeting a group of PEOPLE, it was against the INJUSTICES. Unity isn't overrated - unity is impossible. But that's entirely besides the point. We don't need unity, we need rational solutions that hold the people who fucked this economy up accountable and we need safeguards so it doesn't happen again.
OWS diviseness is no different from the Tea Party's; they're turning the other side into the OTHER, into the SCAPEGOAT - which was the exact opposite of MLK's stance actually. It's far more like U.S. 20th century xenophobia and Germany's...well. we all know that example. Not to mention the entire premises of OWS are really naive and too broad to even target the real issues. Don't get me wrong, with the Tea Party's existence, there NEEDED to be a OWS - a left wing uprising - a chance for people left of center (to extreme left) to scream and rage and be angry and discuss their issues and what's gone so terrible WRONG with American and the rest of the world for that matter. To make people PAY ATTENTION to politics for once. But the pendulum has swung WAY TOO FAR on ALL accounts. Both sides are being equally stupid at this point. So no, no love lost for OWS. But, I hate the right wing and their equivalent movement too.
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You know, ultimately I do support OWS, but the more I follow them on Twitter the more annoyed I get, lol.
These were two good blog posts I liked about the movement (esp. re: the organized set of goals bit):
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/10/why-occupy-wall-street-is-not-the-tea-party-of-the-left/?hpt=hp_t2#
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/4664/trait-du-savoir-vivre-occupy-wall-street-generations
But the people who are putting themselves out as "representative" voices of the movement are seriously annoying me because the fact is that there isn't one unifying theme or set of demands of the movement that can be represented. I support OWS but those voices are not speaking for me. I have opinions and I can damned well voice them on my own. It really just goes back so much to self-appointed grandstaging by young white liberals that drowns out the voices of minorities - women, poc, people who are older with jobs, people who are older without jobs, etc etc. Basically anyone who isn't young white male liberal college grad with debt and no job. I'm not saying they don't have the right to complain - they do, along with everyone else - but alksdfjslkd YOUR VOICE IS NOT MY VOICE.
I dunno, I used to be more centrist and moderate. Not so much anymore. I think part of it is the reality that the Tea Party's shifted everything so radically right - so I think that, you're right, at this moment, we need the radical left to drag things back. It won't be a forever solution, but it's a wake-up call that people ned. OWS isn't going to fix anything, I think. It's just the wake-up call. For that, it works. EXCEPT FOR THE PART WHERE THEY ALSO DROWN OUT THE SAME VOICES THAT THE RIGHT LIKES TO DROWN OUT TOO.
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The crap that is actually being pushed through as laws in various states and even nationally is just-- shocking. WHY DO PEOPLE HATE WOMEN SO MUCH??