Ignorance.

Anyone who knows me well enough, knows my stand on abortion. I'm am staunchly pro-CHOICE. It isn't any one government officials' job to tell ME how to handle my reproductive health, or if what I'm doing is murder. If you consider it murder, well I assure you, it has NOTHING to do with you. It's between me and God. With my past, this is a very touchy topic with me. I cannot even speak to pro-life people. It enrages me and makes my blood boil. To quote John McCain in last night's final candidate debate:

"Health for the mother." You know, that's been stretched by the pro-abortion movement in America to mean almost anything. That's the extreme pro-abortion position, quote, "health."

I honestly think he has not one clue what 'partial birth abortion' is even used for. It's a procedure used to SAVE THE LIFE of the mother. Let's say for example, that something goes horribly wrong with your pregnancy, and your life is in danger due to that fetus your carrying. Now, NO woman wants to be faced with the decision to terminate late in her pregnancy, but let's be real here. If it came down to my life on the line, I'd abort late term. No questions asked. I read blogs of women who have had to make that choice, or rather, that choice was made for them. It's a decision that will destroy you. Sometimes, you don't have a choice. Partial birth abortion should NOT be banned. To quote Julie, at www.alittlepregnant.com:

"Your baby. Your life. If you're reading this blog, chances are good that you're a mother, a pregnant woman, a woman who plans to become pregnant, or a woman who's trying. He means you. He means us when he holds up his hands and says with that single scornful gesture that we don't matter. That we are a figment of the "pro-abortion movement's" imagination. That — what, we're making this whole "staying pregnant might kill me" thing up? (That he did this on Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is, of course, coincidental, but the irony, it is not lost.)"

She is my hero for a multitude of reasons, but her views on this due to her own reproductive past are one of the many reasons I continue to read her everyday.

Truth is McCain/Palin make me physically ill for a number of reasons. I cannot support two mindless, ignorant people in leading our country. I hope for the sake of all women, that they are not voted into office. Hell, I hope for the sake of EVERYONE that they aren't. You want to take some advice from me - don't vote McCain/Palin. Another 4 years of ignorant, hypocritical leadership is the LAST thing America needs.