Sistawithafro's posterous

Sistawithafro's posterous

Sistawithafro  //  

Nov 4 / 7:47pm

Personhood

Is the ambiguous concept of Personhood another shady, male-dominating attempt to strip away a natural power given to women?

Do the powers that be, men, really care if life starts at conception?

Should those that many times pick abandonment above fatherhood be allowed to revoke the monumental right of women to choose?

No.  It should not be allowed by a man’s hands or any other anti-choice hand.  Those who are anti-choice force a one-sided view ignoring the fact there is a valid sentient being, a woman, on the other side.  A valid sentient being that would be allowed to die under the Protect Life Act which, as uncaring and catastrophic as this measure is, would be given acceptable strength if such craftily vague measures as Personhood were to pass into law.

If women allow their right to choose to be revoked then the groundwork will be laid to have more of our rights and powers to be legislated away.  The right to use birth control is the next obvious choice hence the crafty vagueness of Personhood.  In some historically oppressive way the two issues will highly likely be connected which will lead to the eventual outlawing of birth control.  Another phenomenal right of women left open for revocation is the right to be visible as a human being and not merely a servant vessel to nurture masculine acts of so-called love, pleasure, and rape.  Essentially, that is what this ill-conceived concept of Personhood is suggesting--once a woman is pregnant she is invisible. 

I personally am not for the actual act of abortion.  I don’t think anyone actually is.  I am pro the preservation of the right of a woman to choose.  I am pro the right of a woman to be seen as a human being.