Overwhelming grief

[pegkerr]

Rob, who had been watching the election returns all night, came and woke me about forty-five minutes ago and held me while I cried.

Injustice won. Now this man who has made an unprecedented power grab for the executive branch, who authorized the use of torture, who has trampled on civil rights, who has lied and lied and lied to the American people, is going to have the chance to reshape the Supreme Court for the next generation. Bigotry won. I cannot bear it that the bigot's side of the argument on a civil rights issue that I care so deeply about, gay civil rights, was what pushed conservative voters out to the polls to return this man to the White House. Stupidity won. He totally lost track of who attacked us on September 11, he has ignored the threat of North Korea and Iran, he has failed to guard the borders, he has taken us into an unjust, immoral and unnecessary war which has killed our people and a hundred thousand Iraquis, spent our resources, inflamed the world against us and multiplied our enemies a thousandfold.

And we have rewarded him by returning him to the White House.

I have never been so ashamed to be called a Christian, if people who call themselves Christian feel that they are honoring their religion by voting for him over John Kerry. I have never been so afraid and so grief-stricken for my country, no, not even after September 11, because this time we are administering the wound to ourselves.

Comments

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

This all being said, we are certainly agreed that it would best if we could make abortions as rare as possible. But not by outlawing them or making them more difficult to obtain. Better to increase funding and support for birth control and family planning services.

Which, by the way, George W. Bush has done all that he can to cut.

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently (there is a link in Loligo's LJ to the statistics) the abortion rate in the States has _increased_ under Bush, for the first time in a very long time. Women have abortions, on the whole, when they do not have the knowledge of how to prevent unwanted pregnancies, or the economic and social resources to raise unexpected children. Bush is doing his level best to eliminate that knowledge and those resources.

So for those who are opposed to abortion, voting for Bush may have been emotionally satisfying, but was in reality counterproductive and will probably cause more abortions to happen in the next four years than would otherwise have been the case. Though some of them may be more illegal and dangerous and possibly also involve the death of the woman, which is surely not a plus from anyone's point of view.

maggie h

[lkw18.livejournal.com]

I agree. That's the thing with Bush. He refuses to support safe sex and birth control education in schools and only wants to promote abstinence. While abstinence is all fine and dandy it is dangerous to tell kids that is the only option. Because what will happen is that they are going to be having sex anyways but won't have the knowledge of how to protect themselves and this will create a higher percentage of STD's and pregnancies.