If you heard "fuck you, you fucking bastard" coming from my room just now, this is why...

I'm watching the debates. The "fucking bastard" is John McCain. And I'm sorry that I'm being crude and I'm swearing and oh, clutch your pearls and exclaim at the horrors of young white girls who curse and yell and disrespect their elders, when we should be out there having baby after baby to advance our wondrous race which has never done anything wrong against the vast brown hordes. Fuck all of you.

Don't use your fucking air-quote scare-quotes with a word like health. Don't say that it has been "stretched so far." That is such a fucking right-wing talking point and if you were really a maverick? You'd never do that, you lying sack of shit.

First of all, what with Obama's support of bans on 3rd-trimester abortions if there's a health/life exception? Yeah, I disagree with him. Big surprise. There needs to be a rape/incest exception, first of all, because I (owner of uterus here) can easily imagine a situation where a rape or incest victim can either not get to a clinic or not raise enough money before the third trimester. Especially if it's incest. You think the kind of people who force their own relatives to have sex with them want them being able to get to a clinic? No. This is awful. So you need that, you need an exception for women with abusive partners (and domestic violence often begins during a pregnancy). So suffice to say I'm far more radical than either candidate, but I'm closer to Obama's position than McCain's. (Surprise, surprise.)

You know what I heard when John McCain did his fucking air-quotes? "You women are flighty and irresponsible and you don't know what you want from one day to the next. You will choose to abort a wanted pregnancy because of a cough. You need me the big maaaaaan to make your decisions for you, and even though I chose a woman as my running mate I think women are worth less than I am."

I mean, where else can you go from there? "Health, that's been stretched so far."

I wrote a poem this morning reminiscing on a woman I met about a month ago, the first time I escorted at the clinics. She was aborting her pregnancy because of health complications. What they were, I don't know. Another car pulled up and I needed to get into action. But you know what I'm thinking when I hear that? I'm sorry. I'm sorry you can't have a baby (she said she would have loved to have a baby). I'm sorry you have health problems. And I believe you when you say what you say.

The right wing today has no compassion for women. You see it when they accuse women of stretching what a health exception means. You see it when they claim that rape victims lie. That they shouldn't've been drinking (I wasn't drinking), shouldn't've been out late at night (it was 3 in the afternoon and I was in someone's house), they should've had a man with them (um...yes. That's why it happened.) I know these are MRAs, not mainstream conservatives, but how often do the two groups meld? Ah yes. Frequently. No compassion. No trust. They view us as subhuman, illogical, beasts.

Look, here's the truth: some women want to have babies. When we don't (or don't at that time), the vast majority of us will understand this and have the abortion in the first or second trimester. Those of us who 'wait' until the third trimester will generally have some very big reason for this, usually a medically-related one. Why? Because women are just as logical as men. I know there are women who at some point during their pregnancies will get tired of the swollen feet and the lack of alcohol and any of those other things I've never gone through. Weird cravings (my mom's was for lemon cookies). And maybe they'd start thinking, ugh, just get this baby out of me. Maybe they'd panic and think, I can't be a mother! I'll be a terrible mother! But we don't make split-second decisions like that, to abort or not abort. Any man who thinks that's how women think views us as lesser. And you can all go fuck yourselves.

Chris Matthews says you can't belittle the health exception. Thank you. He says it'll hurt McCain with pro-choice women. I agree, and I prove your theory, Mr. Matthews.

Oh, and she didn't get to say much on this issue, but I still love her:
Rachel Maddow:Yeah. Great image to end with.