This part of tolerance gets me a little more heated. While the liberals can push their gay agenda all they want, what gets me irked is when they try to invoke women's rights. I am completely intolerant of people who claim women's rights yet will walk into a government building with jars of urine and feces with the intention of dousing elected government officials with it. Yes we're going back to the circus that was (and let's face it will continue to be through at least the midterm elections, if not the next presidential race) Texas SB 5.
Wendy Davis rallied the crazies in her pink Mizunos (not gonna lie, was pretty glad that I switched my trainers to Newtons from Mizunos because she ruined the brand for me. Petty, I know but some things like that just bother me) and jacked a catheter up in her (sidenote: Senator Paul did not use a catheter during his thirteen hour filibuster, guess who I think is the bigger badass?) and went on a rant saying that this bill right here was going to be the end of women's rights. Ok, maybe a slight exaggeration but she and her lot of crazies (they brought in feminine personal hygiene products in addition to human excrement and oh yeah a brick to throw at legislators who wanted to pass SB 5) really and truly thought that the mean evil old white guys were trying to stomp all over women's rights. Guess what? Those who backed the bill are doing more for women's rights than Wendy Davis and crew are doing. But I'm sure Wendy is with Nancy and Harry and tends not to read legislation until it's passed. I don't reside in Texas (I've begged the husband to never reside there unless it's San Antonio because I have fond memories of frozen sangria/margarita twists on the Riverwalk, a hole in the wall Puerto Rican place up by the airport, hungover breakfast tacos, etc when we were stationed there... I'm a fat kid, leave me be!) but I did take the time to read this legislation. It's good legislation, actually I'll even go as far to say that it is brilliant compromise legislation between pro-lifers and pro-"choicers" (I hate that phrase, I'm very pro-life and believe that your choices are as follows: give birth and be a mother, give birth and let the child be adopted into a loving home, or just keep your legs shut and don't have sex if you're fearful of getting knocked up).
If you didn't read the bill, basically it bans abortions after 20 weeks (because at 20 weeks (or five months) a fetus is not a blob of tissue, it's a human that looks like an itty bitty human -- and which in recent polls a vast majority of Americans actually agree with), requires a licensed physician and a licensed anesthesiologist to be present and have admitting privileges at a hospital within a 30 mile radius, and finally that all stand alone abortion clinics be held to the same regulations and codes as hospitals and other stand alone health clinics. Ummm, how does that impede a woman's right to appropriate and safe health care? I, personally, am not seeing where this bill does that. If anything it promotes women's rights by still allowing abortions and making sure that the horrors of another Gosnell, or in the case of an actual Texas abortion provider, Douglas Karpen who ran his own house of horrors in Houston. If providers cannot comply with these regulations then you have to wonder why they're even in business, is it just the quick and easy money with little government interference? Isn't compromise the best solution to what is clearly an issue that either sides feels passionately about? Again, this is the best piece of compromise legislation on the books for abortion. It's not restrictive in the way that North Dakota has and has been legally challenged, but not as restrictive as Maryland who had fairly lax regulations as evidenced by the Bringham and Carhart cases.
But you know it's all about "it's my body" and what The Man will do to keep people down. Yeah, I just rolled my eyes. Just like respecting an individual (in this case, no matter how deranged I believe they are), and treating others as you would like to be treated, sometimes we must be willing to compromise in order to protect the rights of everyone because we all know how well appeasement worked out.
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