*deep breath* Okay.  I need to vent.  Or rant, whichever term you prefer.  This issue has been bothering me a lot lately.  Feel free to comment, but please don't flame me.

Well, if you keep on with the news, they're trying to pass this anti-abortion law in South Dakota.  It will be illegal to get an abortion in that state, unless the woman in question is going to die as a result.  Only if you're going to DIE.  They make no other exceptions.  Not for rape, or incest, or other health complications.  Nothing at all.  I've read some articles...(I'll post a URL later)  They say, if a woman was raped, the rapist would have just as much control over the child as the woman would.  I'm sorry, but something is just seriously wrong with this.  If something like that happened to me, I would want to stay as far away from that person as possible.  The idea that a man who raped someone who could be a part of the victim's life is just scary.

Or, what if this person had a life to live?  What if they were in college, or an athlete...  What id they were a victim of rape or incest? Having a child doesn't just HAPPEN, you have to go through pregnancy for 9 months.  Heck, they might have to just drop everything.  Ruin their entire life plan.  Because women won't be able to have control of their own bodies anymore, not with these kinds of laws.  Or what if someone had a tricky health condition, that wouldn't exactly kill them, but make their life so much harder to get through if they were to become pregnant?  It shows no sympathy for the victims.  It's like they don't care if someone's a victim, they have to deal with the consequences NO MATTER WHAT.  I think it's scary that we wouldn't have a choice.  It's like women are slowly losing their voices, and their rights....

Now, don't get me wrong.... I don't think that abortion is right, especially in late-term abortions.  It should only be done in very, very paticular situations.  But, still in a woman's body, it's not a person yet.  Yes, it is human. But there's a difference between being human and being a person.  However, it's a potential person and should be treated with respect. The fetus would be unable to live outside of the woman's body- it is not yet an independant lifeform.  But when two beings occupy the same space, one should have control over another....  I don't know; I don't think I'm wording this very well.  I'm sure there's lots of loopholes in my explanation... Maybe I'll try to clarify what I mean, sometime... 

I mean, not all victims of those types of crimes need to get an abortion.  I think it's wonderful if a person is willing to have a child... To have something good come from something like that.  But I just think that a world without that choice would be a scary place to live in....

Now, here's something that will only make sence to me.   No critisizm please, this is just my crazy way of venting....^^;

let’s go to france! You all proposed

fly there on that stupid rose

and paint the world

I pack my bags

and write, write, write

what a romantic place

to spend the day

so we arrive at the painting center

and you all, who offered to pay

of course have no money

“to kill a man with a baguette” you laughed

and laughed more when you played it out

but I couldn’t ignore the rotting bridge

frail toothpicks stacked together

in the shapes of “R”s and “J”s

but of course that wouldn’t work

for my Romeo ran away

for but a thousand other Rosalines

and I am looked past

like an old hag’s smelly broom

too old, too quiet, boring, useless

but I won’t be a mere Roseline, no

I can be so much more than that

Sorry, never liked rabid fangirls

And I’m sick of this memory anyway

So on my very soul I swear,

This shall be the very last time it will ever be archived

By mine own hands

I swear! I swear! I’m done crying now!

I have no sadness left, it disappeared

“you silly child, you’re such a cynic!”

no, no, I am an optimist

as forever as the sun

i'm moving on, starting, NOW

it’s just days like these...

so stop the accusations 

i didn't sign up for this court

you aren’t better, you aren’t worse

no, this is not some ancient curse

(though the past sometimes won’t leave me alone,

oh how I long to forget without forgetting my past sick healths)

yet I feel the bridge, breaking

the J’s weren’t really Js, anyway

just a trick, I suppose

no, they were really the letters of my one true name

(and the secret ones within my soul

that only i may know)

and I feel they will be swept into the ever flowing river below

not because they were adheased with the glue

to the “R”s so strongly

well, maybe a little

you were sunchine, after all

(athough I had other lights)

but no, more of the things I left unsaid

the more I repelled you, the more I did myself

the toothpicks peeled away from themselves

thus a million sepatate entities

of a billion shades of violet

I used to be the only violet one, you know

but in the river, they’re a billion others

just like me, but they shine even brighter

rosalines, all of them!

but as a violet, than am i?

NO

and so i send this letter

this message to myself

it's over now, it's today now

forget that useless

yesterday

Silvia looked around.  She had nothing to say today, just as she had nothing to say the about days before.