Plan B and personal autonomy

That's it. There is no argument against this logic. 

Yes this is a pagan blog but I am so mad and I feel I have to purge. I'm sure many of you have been following the approval of Plan B or the morning after pill for over the counter purchase by females 15 and over. When I heard of this approval I was shocked for once, thinking that after years of waiting here was one piece of news I could rejoice in. Until this came out this evening...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/01/plan-b-justice-department-appeal/2128039/

The U.S. Justice Department has appealed the decision of the judge who ordered that the Plan B pill be made available over the counter.

It makes me sick inside. Really Really sick. Not for myself or my daughter. But for the millions of other American women and girls who wont have the opportunity to protect themselves on their own terms from unwanted pregnancy.

It's a non issue for us of course. Over the counter or not, at any age, if my daughter needs this pill in her lifetime she will damn sure get it. The same goes for birth control, condoms, even abortion if it is needed. Even if she is 15 and makes a foolish mistake. I will do whatever is necessary in my life to assure that my daughter's reproductive organs are never under anyone's control but her own. Just like I have done and will continue to do for my self and every other women that I love and cherish.

I'm sick of moral proselytizing on all sides. I'm sick of the debates which never end. The fact of the matter is entirely practical. You have no right on this earth to claim you support gender equality if you do not support complete and total reproductive control for women of any and all ages everywhere. It's that simple. It's called logic.

Every child is not a blessing. Every child is not a gift. Getting pregnant is not magic. God does not come down with his magic wand into your womb and grant life. I'm not an atheist by far, but I do believe in realism. There are children in this world now that should never have been born. Harsh? Yes. Honest? Yes.

If you are a woman reading this, I BEG you, no matter what laws or rules are passed, to be a beacon of personal autonomy for all the young ladies and women you know. Vote these gaping shit holes making these decisions out of office. Tell your girls every chance you get that their body is their own, and if they ever need your helping in protecting that to come to you.

Do not judge them, do not lecture them. Simply open your heart to women in compassion and non judgment. Realize their is no sin too great that it should ever deny a woman's right to control her own body. How she got into the situation is meaningless. Be it by force or total willingness. The equality of women is entirely dependent on her right to personal autonomy. It is a basic human right, for any gender, if equality is the ideal.

For me, it matters little what the law says in this issue. Even of birth control and abortion became illegal, it would make no difference. I would learn other ways to preserve my right and the rights of all women I know.  Even if I had to scour the earth for herbs and lost lore to prevent pregnancy. Even if I had to go to school for twenty years just to become a doctor so I could give women access to abortion in secret, I would. Honestly that is how I feel about it now, and how I have felt about the rights of women since I became self aware.

And it is how I pray other women feel, or might feel in the future.

In Frith
Cena