Blah state of Mind

So Riley takes his afternoon nap during Oprah. We also only get like super basic cable, so my options during the day are very few. At four o'clock when the man falls asleep (on top of me I might add) I am stuck with either court t.v. or Oprah. If you've read any of my other posts or if you've even seen the back of my car, you know my politics and Oprah's differ just a little. I actually think she's very bias, and she talks about black suffrage as if it were still going on, and it happens to be my opinion that blacks get more opportunities these days than any other race. But...eh. That's another post.

What I'm getting at is the story from Friday's Oprah. She had Jessica Coleman on via satellite. If you don't remember, she's the girl who had a baby in her bedroom, stabbed it and dumped it in a river. Six years later they find her and stick her in jail and now she's on Oprah, boo-hooing about her pathetic existence. There's a special place in hell for people like her. What struck me though, besides the obvious, was the fact that no one happened to bring up the point that six years ago (and of course today) abortion was completely legal. And probably confidential, though I don't know for sure what the laws are in her state. If this is the mentality, that abortion is an great option for young, confused women to destroy unwanted pregnancies thus avoiding the obvious stab and dump option, then why wasn't it even brought up? I dunno...maybe it's just me but I kept expecting Oprah to ask ever so gently, "So Jessica, why not get the abortion you had every right to get? God knows we Dems right hard for your right to have the option."

I'm not saying that getting rid of abortion is going to change the world (though it very well may. Who knows what potential the unborn have) I guess I was just irritated by the fact that the topic was just ignored. You know everyone was thinking it. I'm completely against killing babies at any stage in life, personally.

And then today in one of those horrible political adds, I saw one candidate call another "Anti-choice" which is a new term for me. Anti-choice, huh. So I guess one could retaliate with the "Well you're anti-babies!" or better yet "I'm rubber you're glue!" and stick a big tongue out. Yeah...that's basically what I think of politics these days.

Also, I heard on the news today that they're picketing something about late term abortions outside of the White House. That can't be good. I mean I just can't remember the last time I saw a...well to put it in their terms...Anti-choice rally. Most these days are basically a big mob opposing anything except abortion. It's a woman's right to put a stick of dynamite in her hoo-hoo if she damn well pleases and I won't hear about anything else!

Blah. There's just no point to a late-term abortion and everyone knows it. Even their best friends science and medicine say there's just no medical reason a woman would ever have to have one. So there.

Ugh. I need to get out more.