Yes, Virginia, There Is a Sanity Pause

Imagine this:  You are a woman and you are living in Virginia.  The very thought is painful!

Of course, there is the very real possibility you will be unable to imagine the concept at all.  Oh, the idea of living in Virginia midst all the natural beauty, that's no problem.  But being a woman?   1.)  If you are a male, you simply cannot imagine being female.  Go ahead.  Try it.  My guess is, you won't get within five percent of understanding the actual condition of femaleness.  2.)  If you are a female, you are possibly an elderly lady.  You perhaps have forgotten already what it means to be susceptible to much of the downside of femaleness.  Your own menopause relieved you of a good deal of that worrisome state of being.  3.)  If you are that older female and you have no daughters, grand daughters or any other more youthful females you really care about, you may be willing to be as cruel (or at least non-feeling) as most males.  4.)  If you are a female still of fertility age but are also hyper-religious and cock-sure (pardon the crude aspersion) of your own righteousness and your absolute inability to make a mistake or even be forced by a male into sexual contact, then you also may be capable of male-sized disrespect for other females.

Virginia's legislature has just passed a bill that amounts to legalized state rape!  [check here for a Chicago Tribune unbiased article - or here if your mind is open enough to read something from Progressives]  And the heartless governor (who has an eye toward national political office) is looking forward to signing it into law.  The law would force any woman desiring an abortion to be vaginally penetrated by a doctor (using an ultra-sound scope) - even if against the medical professional's own will - before the procedure can be legally completed.  Virginia is said to be still one of these United States, yet it has taken a step that not only scoffs at the national constitution, but disrespects its own citizens and tramples any concept of human rights.

We of the U.S. - ...land of the free, etc., - we united, as a caring people, have used our vaunted national platitudes of human rights, women's rights, common decency etc., to help us wave our Stars and Stripes in the eyes of the world.  At what point will Virgina stop its vile treatment of its own female citizens?  Might the all-wise, all-powerful (in his completely Republican-run state) governor take yet further steps?  Could he not at some point make the case for simply ending rights for females entirely?  How about ending sexual interest for females?  Perhaps he could meet with middle-Eastern or African leaders (governors) to learn how to use the techniques of clitoral mutilation and remove the temptation from these practically sub-human creatures called women to engage in the depraved act of sexual intercourse.

But consider this: what other control-freak governors and legislators out there (almost entirely males) will decide that Virginia has set a good example of returning those uppity women to their rightful place?  Maybe all male legislators in all states should follow the example and take control back from the weaker sex who have managed to gain some few rights to decide what is best for their own bodies.  After all, men always know best, right?  And voters today are beginning to rally 'round a Republican presidential contender who seems to be as far to the right of sanity as is the humanity-challenged governor of Virginia.  (This candidate's puppet-master thinks women just need to keep their knees together!)  For these men, and millions of other men, there must be a real nostalgia for the good old days of the nineteenth century!  Things were so much simpler before the shrill cry of feminine self-interest was heard in our great land.  That must be because men are fundamentally so much better at running things and they should never have allowed those pesky women to vote and get organized.

In my humble opinion, the women of Virginia should vote with their vaginas this November.  Perhaps there is already a grass-roots group called The Virginia Vaginas.  Or there should be!  Every member of the state legislature who voted to legalize doctor-required rape of women seeking abortion should be voted out of office.  Pure and simple.  Why mess with that kind of idiocy coming from your own elected representatives?  You don't have to, ladies!  Call a halt to it all.  When I say vote with your vaginas, I literally mean to use the amazing power you possess over men.  I once witnessed a bold woman on a public street (interestingly, in Washington D.C.) wearing a tee-shirt with these words emblazoned on the back: I have the pussy so I make the rules!  Just wake up to your strengths, women!  It's quite obvious that each vagina has two votes!  A woman not only can cast her own vote for legislators who promise to stay out of the vagina politic, but each lady can also make it clear to the male who expects to visit her personal vagina that he had better follow suit on this issue.

If women were to respond in unison, using their heads to protect their vaginas, there is no possible way Virginia or any other state could ramrod (again, sorry ...) such cruel legislation through the halls of state governments, policies that are damaging and immoral.  Ladies, you need never let stupid rule!  [For those of you who fight valiantly on behalf of zygotes, I won't actually brand you as stupid, but I would ask that you apply science and logic to this matter of the difference between fertilization and life.]

And for those of you who think of yourselves as ultimately moral while also buying into the idea that right-to-life means right to destroy rights of others, I have one simple criticism.  Rather than making a great impression on the world with your religious ethic, you are turning religion into a state-rape drug!