We woman are complete human beings.

This particular blog is in response to what happened today in the House of Representatives of the United States of America.

I insist on being one of the women who speak up for women.

Being able to blog is a great place for us to talk to each other about actual issues.

Many of these citizens and politicians today are missing the point.

We, as woman, are in charge of our bodies and it is up to us, personally, to make decisions about what to do with our bodies.

How dare politicians and others try to decide for us whether or not we have the right to choose?

We recognize that we have a moral obligation to make a reasoned, rational choice about whether or not to bear a child.

Giving birth to another human being is a life-changing, life long-decision, It should not be taken lightly. It should not be a matter of chance. No woman should ever give birth to a child because she feels guilty to have an abortion.

A woman's right to life is not superseeded by the so-called rights of an unquickened mass of tissue.

Why don't we have hoards of people screaming at woman going into birthing rooms at hospitals. The world is already over-populated. Can you afford this child? Are you mentally and physically stable enough to have this child?

Why doesn't anyone shoot at doctors who are delivering babies?

Every child deserves to be a prayerfully-wanted child.

And, we, as woman, are complete human beings. Without the right to make choices about what we do with our bodies, we have absolutely nothing.

Keep 'em barefoot and pregnant is no longer cute. It's simply irresponsible.

Each child deserves to have two active, engaged parents.

Each child deserves braces and piano lessons.

All of this baloney is just another way to keep us in thrall to men...who do have larger bodies...and who are, generally, more willing to be bullying and abusive.

A zygot is not a child.

An embryo is not a child.

The mass of tissue that develops when sperm and egg join is not human until it "quickens". That means, until the woman feels the life itself, usually after about three months. A pregnant woman feels a feeling like a little fish swimming quickly inside her. That is the quickening.

And, don't get me started on feeling obligated to bring genetically deformed creatures to term. It's unfair to society and it's hideously unfiair to that person.

The safest birth-control fails about 3% of the time.

Not funding abortion, or worse-yet, making it illegal, will not stop woman from having abortions. It only means that we will have to go back to the old way of back alleys, clothes hangers, and suicide.

And, abortion is a health care issue. We women deserve to receive health care in clean, medical facilities.

This terrorist-to-all-woman decision to trade our health and safety for political reasons is unacceptable.

But. What will happen? The younger woman don't remember the "good old days" when women couldn't enter libraries without a male escort; women could not get an education; women could not own property; woman could not control our own money; and...we could not vote.

We still earn cents on the dollar compared to what men earn...but we pay the same for rent and groceries. And, often, we have to feed less-than-actually-wanted children inferior diets because the sperm doner has skipped out.

Too many Grandmothers are taking care of their grandchildren because their daughters don't want to.

Too many children are homeless because no one wants them around. These actual people, the children, are vulnerable. Hungry. Frightened. Over-tired.

These younger woman with their cute little short skirts and their emphasis on chatting with each other. I'm so sorry they're going to have to learn the hard way what it means to be second class.

The problem is that woman don't support woman.

Let's put Nancy P. at the head of the list.

The heart of the matter is that we use the third-person pronoun, "they," when in actuality, we are talking about ourselves, "we."

Once we start using "we", we will begin to own ourselves.

Bravo to all of us who have been blazing trail since the sixties and we're still going. Won't some of you other women join us? It's fun to be informed and to think. It's fun to make decisions and take responsibilities.

Choices are only valued when they are (1) freely made, and (2) made from choices.

Allowing our House of Representatives to trade our safe place to have abortions for political reasons is unacceptable. We all need to stand up for each other on this issue. As they used to say, "It's the heart of the coconut."

Tah for now.