Medusa's Head

Yesterday Mississippi rejected the idea that a fertilized egg is a person. Today there are so many blogs and news articles talking about how the amendment was a terrible idea, outlawing many kinds of birth control, invitro fertilization, life-saving medical treatment for miscarrying women or women pregnant with tubal pregnancies in addition to the hot button abortion issue. But I'd like to look at how the whole idea that egg+sperm=baby is a hurtful lie. I know this, because since I was a teenager I've been interested in the abortion debate. I read lots on how one should treat egg+sperm, but not if egg+sperm is different from egg+sperm+uterine lining, and definitely not that egg+sperm does not equal baby A LOT of the time. That's why it's the miracle of life, folks. And it took a really sucky experience to teach me that the abortion debate had given me unrealistic expectations about what egg+sperm would mean in my life. In 2007, I was trying to get pregnant. I was peeing...

This Week They Killed Your Best Friend in a Church While He Prayed, Although Many Could Save Your Life He Was The Only One that Would Now is the time when they are deciding who will decide who owns your body. If you are not a man or a child or a virgin you are a cruise ship, or your body is a cruise ship and you are the captain and if the ship goes down so will you. They decide if tiny people can kill you. You might have thought, oh yay, finally, my tiny person is coming only to discover they will brutalize you. The undertaker will have to stuff you so you won't look caved in for your casket though you don't have to die, you could maybe keep your body a little longer-- your body, whose job you thought it was to keep you alive and take you to work this body which is all you know has been lying to you. It is not yours. It never was. It is somebody else's, or could be just like that. And whether that person is alive, or will be for long your body, your long lost first love or ...