Abortion, Christianity and Health Care

I'm going to admit it up front. Bad Kitty is really in a foul mood. Hissing and scratching, she clawed her way to the computer, the spittle from this hissing still covering the screen. What do I really care? I'm watching the theater of the absurd.

This great country is engaged in a very real threat against terrorists who want to impose their religious beliefs upon the entire world. They are zealots without mercy and who subjugate women. They impose what is known as "Sharia" - a law based on "God's law" under Islam. This has come to mean polygamy for men, less education for women (in general), less freedom for women in all aspects from their dress to their physical movements in and about their towns and cities, in the name of respect for women and the name of God. Women who are raped must provide four male witnesses or else be stoned to death. A woman who was raped and got pregnant was in fact stoned to death after the birth of her child. This is life under the rule of God known as Sharia.

In the country I love, the land I live in and have always called home, women have had the right to discuss and control their bodies. Religion has no play in health care as should be the case. We are a secular nation. We have no Sharia, no religion to tell us what we "must" do or what we must believe.

Long before the ruling in 1973 which made abortion legal, abortions were happening in the United States. The serious problem was that in addition to the fetuses, a great deal of women were dying as well. Understanding that a woman has the right to determine what happens to her body, the Supreme Court ruled in 1973 in Roe v. Wade that a woman had the choice to have an abortion should she choose to do so. This is the law of the land and has been so now for 36 years.

Of course there are people who have beliefs that oppose this legal position. However, there may be people who oppose the fact that your sister or your female child doesn't cover her hair and her arms appropriately. What do you say to them? You tell them to mind their own business. Just as I tell you to .... mind your own business.

But, but ... "I'm try to SAVE LIVES!" you exclaim.

No. You are merely pushing your beliefs onto me - making you just like the people of the Taliban. Did you ever for once think of that? You are trying to make the United States into exactly what we are fighting against?

I respect your view. Please respect mine. Most importantly, respect the LAW.

This cool cat is outta here.