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May. 17th, 2006 11:05 amI assume you've all read this nonsense by now, about new federal guidelines that say the medical industry should treat us as baby incubators even more than it already does.
Take away contraception and abortion, do a piss-poor job of prosecuting rape and then use the high rate of unwanted pregnancies as an excuse for assuming that all pre-menopausal women who aren't currently pregnant are about to be.
I'm just going to come out and say it: we need to start killing babies. Forced to carry a pregnancy to term? Suffocate the damn thing.
If it were feasible to do the same to the people who enforce these restrictions, that would of course be preferable but it's a hell of a lot harder to get to them. So the only course of action left is to start killing the unwanted babies.
But is this a practical solution? Isn't what I'm suggesting going to result in women being arrested left and right? About 50% of pregnancies in the U.S. are unwanted1. The U.S. birthrate estimated by the CDC is about 4 million2. If half of those are unwanted pregnancies then that's 2 million babies to kill. Compare that with the murder rate for 2004 (2005 data are still preliminary): 16,137 murders (5.5 per 100,000 inhabitants)3. The number of people arrested for murder in 2004 was 13,4674. It is reasonable to assume this was the maximum number of people law enforcement was capable of arresting for murder in 2004. If abortion and contraception became unavailable and all 2 million women who had unwanted pregnancies in the U.S. killed the resulting babies then that would be 2,016,137 murders to solve, with a capacity to solve less than 1% of them. Clearly, getting caught will not be a concern for the vast majority of these women.
The mounds of dead babies piling up on city streets, obstructing traffic and attracting scavengers, would send a powerful message to other nations which, like the United States, refused to ratify the UN Women's Rights Treaty, such as Iran, Afghanistan and Somalia5. Yes, given the position the U.S. government has put women in, killing babies is the only option left to us.
Or, y'know, the government could just start treating women like human beings.
References
1. Guttmacher Institute: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3002498.html
2. The CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/prelimbirth04_tables.pdf
3. The FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_reported/violent_crime/murder.html
4. The FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/persons_arrested/table_29.html
5. The National Education Association: http://www.nea.org/international/cedaw.html
Addendum: I don't know whether to expect this to turn into a debate but in case it does, i reserve the right to mock, then delete, any comment containing the phrases "father's rights," "as long as they're not using it as birth control" or "should have kept her legs closed."
Take away contraception and abortion, do a piss-poor job of prosecuting rape and then use the high rate of unwanted pregnancies as an excuse for assuming that all pre-menopausal women who aren't currently pregnant are about to be.
I'm just going to come out and say it: we need to start killing babies. Forced to carry a pregnancy to term? Suffocate the damn thing.
If it were feasible to do the same to the people who enforce these restrictions, that would of course be preferable but it's a hell of a lot harder to get to them. So the only course of action left is to start killing the unwanted babies.
But is this a practical solution? Isn't what I'm suggesting going to result in women being arrested left and right? About 50% of pregnancies in the U.S. are unwanted1. The U.S. birthrate estimated by the CDC is about 4 million2. If half of those are unwanted pregnancies then that's 2 million babies to kill. Compare that with the murder rate for 2004 (2005 data are still preliminary): 16,137 murders (5.5 per 100,000 inhabitants)3. The number of people arrested for murder in 2004 was 13,4674. It is reasonable to assume this was the maximum number of people law enforcement was capable of arresting for murder in 2004. If abortion and contraception became unavailable and all 2 million women who had unwanted pregnancies in the U.S. killed the resulting babies then that would be 2,016,137 murders to solve, with a capacity to solve less than 1% of them. Clearly, getting caught will not be a concern for the vast majority of these women.
The mounds of dead babies piling up on city streets, obstructing traffic and attracting scavengers, would send a powerful message to other nations which, like the United States, refused to ratify the UN Women's Rights Treaty, such as Iran, Afghanistan and Somalia5. Yes, given the position the U.S. government has put women in, killing babies is the only option left to us.
Or, y'know, the government could just start treating women like human beings.
References
1. Guttmacher Institute: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3002498.html
2. The CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/prelimbirth04_tables.pdf
3. The FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_reported/violent_crime/murder.html
4. The FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/persons_arrested/table_29.html
5. The National Education Association: http://www.nea.org/international/cedaw.html
Addendum: I don't know whether to expect this to turn into a debate but in case it does, i reserve the right to mock, then delete, any comment containing the phrases "father's rights," "as long as they're not using it as birth control" or "should have kept her legs closed."
