I am very concerned about the passage of the Unborn Victims..

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of Violence Act. I'm a 45-year-old feminist, and I remember women dying as a result of trying to terminate pregnancies that they could ill-afford due to lives replete with abuse, abject poverty and intense social pressure. This Act, which is reprehensible, passed without a peep. It defines a fertilized egg as a murder victim. This could lead to someone being charged with murder because she took a birth control pill and the egg did not attach to the uterine wall. Although it makes an exception for legal abortion, it is leading us down a road on which even birth control will be forbidden. This shocks the conscience! Obviously, the authors have not had a rape victim cry on their shoulders as I did, when I was a social worker. Obviously, the proponents have not seen a child in agony from abuse ... because Mom abused the child (lost it a couple of times) ... because she had been coerced into continuing a pregnancy, for 9 agonizing months, due to social pressure, keeping the baby due to social pressure. Generations have now been raised taking contraception and the right to terminate a pregnancy for granted. Living in a theocracy in which women are property who have no control over their bodies will not be enjoyable. Also, it is a complete myth that there are enough adoptive parents out there for the children that result from unwanted pregnancies. Oh, sure, there are plenty around that want white babies that have not been exposed to either abuse or illegal street drugs, and who have been legally relinquished (avoiding a year-long wait to adopt); but there are not enough if there are any complications. This post is from the heart. So, even if you are against abortion personally, or you don't believe in late-term procedures, surely you cannot be serious about going back to a repressive society in which a Double Standard rules. I'm sorry, but I'm sad. I'm going to have to fight a won-battle all over again.