Meet Bubba. He’s a tubal preg­nancy (the most com­mon kind of ectopic preg­nancy). As per­sons go, its’s lack­ing that je né sais quoi— or, I don’t know— that qual­ity for which you would run into a burn­ing build­ing to save it. If this thing dropped from a tree onto your shoul­der at a pic­nic, the chance that you would want to pre­serve it in any­thing but formalde­hyde is remote.

Now meet the per­son­hood ini­tia­tive on ectopic pregnancy

Any wish to risk or trade your own life for the life of this lar­val flesh could not qual­ify as “rea­son­able”. The only things that can be “known” about it are strictly bio­log­i­cal, and the chances that it will ever be a viable fetus are so much more remote than the like­li­hood that it would kill its host with­out med­ical inter­ven­tion that would kill it first, that giv­ing it the rights of “per­son­hood” demands that a women take “heroic” risks to save Bubba, here, because PERSON.

Being killed by a part­ner is the third lead­ing cause of death for preg­nant women. That usu­ally kills the unborn too. They want to charge that man with two mur­ders, but pro­tect­ing the woman doesn’t seem to inter­est them that much, because GUNS! And it doesn’t mat­ter how poor you are, no mat­ter that you don’t have health insur­ance, no mat­ter that you already have chil­dren that you are hav­ing a hard time pro­vid­ing for, no mat­ter if you aren’t employed and have no source of income, no mat­ter if you have health prob­lems that make preg­nancy dan­ger­ous for you,it doesn’t even mat­ter if there is no chance that the fetus will ever be viable, because PERSON.

Of course, no man is going to take all the above “you“s per­son­ally, because that’s HER problem.

Can you think of other instances writ­ten into law in which a per­son can be charged with mur­der for not risk­ing their life to save some­one else? Can you think of such a case, in which a res­cue attempt would have most likely left both dead?

The belief that a zygote/​embryo/​fetus has a “soul” is a reli­gious belief, and one that Per­son­hood U.S.A. and the Per­son­hood Ini­tia­tive are lob­by­ing to have have enshrined into law, so that every zygote/​embryo/​fetus has the rights of any other per­son; but the woman who car­ries it. Her rights as a per­son would be sub­or­di­nate to that thing that can’t live with­out her, even when it can’t live within her, because it’s a PERSON. (And she’s some­thing else.)

The thought that this lit­tle mass of cells, chew­ing through it’s mother’s fal­lop­ian tube could have a social value equal to or greater than that of an adult woman denies the “per­son­hood” of women to a degree that is patho­log­i­cal. It makes the fetus a fetish denuded of it’s bio­log­i­cal real­ity and it’s depen­dency. Of course, the assump­tion that the woman’s role— her pur­pose in life— is to pro­duce and care for the wee ones, no mat­ter its toll on her, no mat­ter the cost to her is taken so much for granted that she’s expected to do it and do it well with no resources, no sup­port, no respite.

I made sev­eral attempts to refute their repul­sive logic that women with ectopic preg­nan­cies should be forced to stay in a hos­pi­tal bed, then undergo auto­trans­fu­sion (be given trans­fu­sions of her own blood) after a rup­ture until the fetus is viable no mat­ter how unlikely that would be. But there’s no rea­son to argue with their bogus inter­pre­ta­tions of a bunch of num­bers they pulled from hos­pi­tal records in Israel. They used a jum­ble of num­bers and sup­po­si­tions about those num­bers to make mud pies; while not acknowl­edg­ing that Israel has uni­ver­sal health insur­ance, no com­punc­tion about end­ing a preg­nancy to pro­tect the mother, and one third the mater­nal death rate of the U.S. Epi­demi­o­log­i­cal infor­ma­tion about ectopic preg­nan­cies in Israel has absolutely noth­ing to do with women in the U.S.— espe­cially women who are unin­sured or who are black women who are much more likely to die of ectopic preg­nan­cies than white women.

We women are PERSONS. ALL OF US ARE PERSONS. No one should be able to tell us that we have to risk our lives, or even fun­da­men­tally change our lives because some peo­ple believe that God gives peo­ple “souls” at con­cep­tion and wants to use that “argu­ment” to take con­trol over women’s bod­ies and lives.

A woman wants to die for her fetus that’s her busi­ness and her prob­lem and her ide­o­log­i­cal mad­ness. If no one close to her tries to talk her out of it then you know how lit­tle she is cherished.

PERSON and MIRACLE BABIES! is proper legal jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for NOTHING. These peo­ple are reli­gious extrem­ists and ded­i­cated misog­y­nists wor­thy of the name AMERICAN TALIBAN. It’s about time that these peo­ple stopped impos­ing their church on our state and took their inter­fer­ing filch­ing hands off of our bodies.