Impregnator Complicity Law Proposed

Submitted to Shelton Blog by Charles L. Winne Mason County Progressive

IMPREGNATOR COMPLICITY LAW

As usual, the closer to election time, the hotter the debate on women's rights. One is led to believe that the right to decide was given to males alone. It brings to mind part of a verse from an old Sunday school song, "Because the Bible tells me so..."

I am not a reader of the Bible on a regular basis, and certainly am not a learned scholar. From the internet I brought up six full pages of small print, single spaced pages of research done by Resources for Clergy on biblical references to abortion. The books Numbers and Hosea provide some gruesome reading describing Moses being directed to oversee the revenge on an entire people, including dashing small children and ripping open pregnant women. The latter could be a cruel form of abortion, right? Oh yes, and the virgins were to be spared for the pleasure of the soldiers. I'm not making this up, read it for yourselves.

I also dug up several other articles concerning women's rights from the Seattle Times, The Progressive Populist, Progressive Magazine, and then there was the news article from the Associated Press telling about a prominent Idaho lawyer who is also licensed to practice medicine as an MD. He decided to defend a young mother of three, living on less than $250 a month, who faces 5 years in prison for aborting with an abortion inducing drug purchased on line. It seems her real crime was breaking an Idaho law that states a professional clinician must perform the abortion

Now before referring back to the aforementioned suggested new "Impregnator Complicity" law, I should remark on what one of our most listened to talk show hosts spouted out over the air-ways. His references to sluts and prostitutes needs this point to be made: in all history of mankind, there has never been one slut or one prostitute that wasn't made so by an impregnator (man if you wish).

The worldwide Guttmacher Institute is an organization that researches sexual and reproductive health. They state that during the year 2008 (the most recent year data is available), there were 3322 abortions per day, so it is a concern. It may be reasonable to assume many of these abortions were arranged by the aforementioned "strayed" women.

You can't have a pregnancy without the input from a male somewhere along in the process which, I believe, gives reason to create a law that places guilt on the man as well, instead of heaping it solely on the woman.

As mentioned before, the public's morals will never be legislated, but a law such as this could bring a sharp reduction in abortions. If abortion is, indeed, a criminal act then the impregnator must be equally charged as is the woman.

The basic purpose for the law would be to enforce the following:

Any man found to be the impregnator in a relationship that results in an abortion procedure must be present at all the clinical procedures now proposed for the woman.

He must be equally responsible for all costs for those procedures, and depending on certain circumstances to be determined by the authors of such bill, may be subject to fines and/or prison time.

The Idaho mother of three faces a prison term for not paying a professional clinician to "kill" her unborn child, but those we send to Washington, DC to govern this "Great Nation Under God" can sacrifice thousands upon thousands of mature fetuses anywhere in the world, but they will be praised, glorified and rewarded with full life-time medical and financial support, and protection from the possibility of personal harm for the rest of their life.

'Tis a puzzlement...

This statement also appeared in the 5/10/12 issue of the Shelton-Mason County Journal as a letter to the Editor.

Link to previous related post:
http://masoncountyprogressive.blogspot.com/2012/03/havent-we-been-here-before.html

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