There apparently was quite the rally today at our state Capitol regarding this "personhood" bill:
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Full disclosure: I am a girl and guys, something's gotta give, doesn't it? On one hand, the government finds it your responsibility to not be a deadbeat when you helped bring a child into this world and perhaps this is the government's way of having the same expectations placed on the mother. Just like a guy cannot simply drop his DNA and drop out of the child's life free from financial obligation, this bill is basically saying that a mother cannot ignore the rights of an unborn child she is carrying.Hundreds gathered Tuesday on the north steps of the state Capitol to protest legislative efforts to declare that "personhood" begins at conception.
They were loud, enthusiastic and at times off-color.
Senate Bill 1433 by Sen. Brian Crain, R-Tulsa, awaits action in the House after securing approval in the Senate.
On the other... I have heard that when a woman's body endures pregnancy, it is a level of pain that nobody else will ever experience in any way, shape or form (short of bad ways to die or be tortured I guess) and this discomfort and body changes last for nine months, something that a male legislators, judges and other decision makers in the political/legal process will never personally have to endure and thus, never fully personally understand themselves.
On a crazier thought... does this bill even do anything, or than say that a person is a person from the moment of conception? It doesn't illegalize abortion, or contraception, or pretty much everything else you think that it would.
Thoughts?