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adelate for pointing out a working torrent for it :D [I'm going to go vote early for California's special election. People in my home county put a measure on the ballot in favor of banning GMOs. You can read a little bit more of my thoughts on Genetically Modified Organisms here if you want to. I'll definitely be voting for that and against props 73-76, 78, and 80.Eyes - 1x10 - Investigator] -- avi, 351mb
The only one I really care strongly about is 73 which is the mandate to force teenage girls to tell their parents before getting abortions. I have, luckily, never been pregnant. If the opposite were true I would, without question, get an abortion. I don't like children much. I know I would make a horrible, impatient mother. I cannot imagine disrupting my life with a pregnancy. I would also never, ever tell my parents. My family doesn't talk about feelings or personal matters. Ever. I get along with my parents on a very adult level. If I were to have gotten pregnant in high school I would have rather gotten a back-alley abortion than tell my parents. Because I am that stubborn and I would have been that desperate. I have no doubt that if this measure passes there will be thousands of girls like me desperate to not tell their parents, forced into choosing dangerous operations in unregulated unsafe conditions.
I have a violent, violent hatred for anyone who thinks that banning abortions or scaring people about pre-marital sex or banning condoms will stop people from having sex. It won't. What is will do is kill people, especially women. Apparently the conservative right is okay with that though, they are, after all, in favor of banning a vaccine that will actually prevent cervical cancer because it might encourage girls to have sex. I do not think it is possible for me to hate these people any more than I do. These policies are shortsighted, sexist, and there is absolutely no moral high ground to stand on when you're claiming to protect the sanctity of human life by enforcing policies that kill people. But maybe that doesn't matter because the people most likely to die from policies like this are sinners anyway, right?
huh. I hadn't really planned to say any of that. well, there you go.
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Thanks for voting against 74 and 76! It really concerns me that 74 makes it much easier for an administrator to fire a teacher (a whole lot less documentation would be required in the dismissal process) and doesn't even give the teacher a grace period to improve his/her performance. Prop 76 cuts funding to schools. I don't see how either of those measures are going to help our school system, specially since we don't have enough teachers or money in the first place.
There must be a way to change this. Why is it still like this in the modern era?
However, I have to confess that at first, I read "Genetically Modified Organisms" as, you guessed it, "Genetically Modified Orgasms." I had a brief *blinkblink* moment.
WORD!
What really amazes me is how those people manage to call themselves "Christians" while clearly deciding that rules or morals are more important to them than people's lives. As far as I understand Christianity I thought the "primary directive" was the love for other human beings as much as for oneself. But I obviously have not understood properly what it is all about, since it is o.k. to kill with the blessing of God in wars or while practicing the death penalty while it is not o.k. to practice birth control. That makes no sense to me.
I am though in favor of encouraging teenagers to only have sex when they feel comfortable, or even better passionate, about it and not let peer pressure make them do something they are not ready for. And part of the readiness implies for me behaving responsibly and practicing safe sex.
My uterus, my choice.