Terry Randall
Dear SCOTUS: If you haven't had one, then you need to STFU.
Three things to make note of before we start wading into this blog entry together, folks...
First,this is the Salon story that triggered this blog entry: http://tinyurl.com/24shpw
Second, this blog entry was originally intended to be an 8-paragraph comment to a diary on dKos dealing with the above story. My plan was to use paragraph 7 to summarize what turned out to be the rest of this blog entry as efficiently as I had the ones above it, then wrap it up succinctly & pithily in paragraph 8.
Third, apparently the material in this blog entry was something that I needed to write for a long time and finally found a voice for. So much for keeping it to 8 paragraphs on dKos. You get the whole thing here instead.
But you know what? For those in the audience who've been wondering WTF a guy like me is doing posting to feminist blogs, this is a significant chunk of the backstory for that. So make of it what you will.
--------------
One of the things that really, really chaps my ass is what a small percentage of the people bloviating away about abortions, on both the right and the left sides of the fence, actually have any first-hand experience with them.
I'm sorry, SCOTUS. And I'm sorry, Fux News Channel. But... if you ain't been there done that, then you can't know. You just can't fucking know.
Abortion | SCOTUS | supreme court | Women's Health | women's rights | Justice Alito | Justice Kennedy | Justice Roberts | Terry Randall
