i'm used to retards making decisions for me, but that doesn't make it any more right

What a lovely way to begin my fucking day.

"The bill could lead to a reversal of the ban that broke legal precedent by providing no health exception for the woman."

Why, what a charming and WORTHWHILE legal precedent to break!

Five well-to-do and undoubtedly power-drunk white men (oh, wait, the token black dude was in on it too) just decided that they not only know better than every doctor in the country and instead of GIVING women information, ensuring that they would make more informed decisions about their abortions - because women are capable of RATIONAL THOUGHT, FOR FUCK'S SAKE, Jesus Christ this is such a fucking piece of sociobiological bullshit - they made the choice FOR them. NO ABORTION!

NO fucking abortion. I said it before and I'll say it many more times: Do YOU want to raise these unwanted children? These children will suffer. They will suffer long and hard. That piece of shit bigot Kennedy who's supposed to have this superior knowledge and employ it on the Court - who's supposed to interpret a Constitution that needs MUCH amendment - has done what I get penalized for doing on my university essays. He made claims with no source.

What may be even more offensive to me is the pure glee that anti-choice activists are displaying. I've read quotes like "We're having fun" and the like. Last night my Pittsburgh Penguins were booted from the playoffs by the Ottawa Senators, which is a pretty fucking shitty feeling, especially since I'm right now located at university in Toronto where I've been giving Torontonians shit about the Leafs being eliminated. I face a barrage of embarrassment at the hands of others today.

Abortion > Sports. See what I mean? You're taking LIVES. Fuck hockey. Abortion is the real fucking thing. You're having FUN? This decision not only affects those of us FLOOSIES who want their normal sex lives but expectant mothers. Do you realize that without a HEALTH EXCEPTION, one of our BASIC HUMAN (not WOMANLY, HUMAN) RIGHTS, mothers are second-guessing their decisions? They're going through pregnancies in fear. GOOD. JOB.

I'm still afraid to be American, but now I'm overwhelmingly ashamed. Everyone up there is truly a blithering idiot. I feel like I'm in the goddamn stone ages.

In other news, I got Armchair Apocrypha by Andrew Bird last night and it is AWESOME. I avoided his music (I'm a snob) until my friend sent me "Plasticities", but the standout track is definitely "Scythian Empires", and not for its quasi-political message at all. It's just gorg.