Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam

from last friday's fannish5 :

Name five fannish things that never fail to cheer you up.

1.) Tramps Like Us. (Hands down my favorite manga ever.)

2.) Beauty & The Beast. (Favorite Disney movie.)

3.) Atropine, SD Wolfpup's Scrubs vid.

4.) Avatar. One of the many reasons that I need to do a series rewatch is because I've partially forgotten that when I was homesick and stressed and had a terrible roommate, the twenty or forty minutes I was able to watch Avatar a day (thanks, avatar_episodes !) was often the best part of my day, or if not, helped me recharge.

5.) How I Met Your Mother. This is one of the scant few comedy shows that I feel are legitimately funny (as well as touching) with some of the most complex and creative characters on television.

I Feel A Quippy Subject Line Would Be Disrespectful

 George Tiller, who provided late-term abortions, was murdered on Sunday. In church. Probably a dozen yards total from his wife.

 

More details here.

 

Surprisingly, this hasn't been commented on much on my flist, so I wanted to post about it and make sure that people knew that this atrocity had occurred.

 

To quote someone rashaka  quoted:

 

"If you seriously believe that women are so lazy and stupid as a group that a majority of late-term abortions are done not out of medical necessity but because women just routinely and casually decide they don't want to carry a healthy fetus anymore in the eighth month ... if you honestly believe that a woman should be forced to carry a dead fetus until her body decides to get rid of it, if it doesn't give her an infection and kill her off too ... if you can stand there and tell me with a straight expression that every birth defect and flaw can be caught before the fetus becomes theoretically viable outside of the womb and women just wait to get rid of those fetuses out of laziness ... if you actually think a woman should have to carry a fetus without a face or a fucking brain for weeks if not months knowing full well it'll die immediately after birth ...

 

Get off my friendslist.

 

No, seriously, get the fuck away from me.

 

And I hope you never have to learn why the right to a late-term abortion is so goddamn important.