If Cars Ran on Well-Written Righteous Outrage, Terri Whitehouse Would Put Exxon Out of Business

The Shame-the-Sluts-Because-the-Bitches-Deserve-It Bill is back before the Kentucky General Assembly, requiring doctors to force a camera up a woman's vagina and make the whore view the results before she can have an abortion.

Terri at Barefoot and Progressive has a post on the subject that is a masterpiece of controlled fury harnessed in the cause of human rights.

People who hate women, who resent their ability to have sex without "consequences," see absolutely nothing wrong with the use of force. Women's bodies belong to their fetuses or to the government or to their parents or spouses/partners, to anyone except themselves.

What's the problem with unnecessarily putting medical instruments up sluts' vaginas? After all, they didn't have a problem with having a penises in there, which is how they got knocked up in the first place. It seems like such a small price to pay, doesn't it? We put dogs' noses in their poop to teach them to change their problem behavior, why not rub women's noses in decisions we don't agree with? Maybe we can train them to change their minds, or, at the very least, to not be so slutty in the future.

Because, really, I *know* that the fetus fetishists think women are stupid. But surely, they cannot believe we are so stupid as to not know that pregnancy and the presence of a fetus are pretty inextricably linked. Call and email these committee members and ask them if they think women are stupid. Tell them that requiring an unnecessary medical invasion into women's vaginas is the opposite of informed consent. It is coercion. Tell them that if they want to add additional barriers to Kentucky women's access to abortion, then they should have the courage to say as much. If they are anti-choice and anti-women, they should wear those badges proudly. Make them own up. Rub their noses in it.

Read the whole thing.