By Alexandria Jane
I’ve been told that I can’t be a Republican if I’m not against abortion.
Do you agree with that statement?
You do? Well, thank you for explaining to me why there are so few registered Republicans in California and why great Republican candidates lose.
In fact, you are the reason why I wasn’t a Republican in the first place, back when emotions fueled my voting instead of my head. I even voted for…can’t wash off the shame…Al Gore, one of the evilest men in the universe. You are the reason why I still cringe and hesitate to admit that I’m a Republican even though our patriotic candidates are far superior to treasonous Democrat candidates.
Because of you, I add a disclaimer to my introductions at political events.
“Hi. Before I divulge my party affiliation, my position on these subjects are this, this, and this. Yeah, I’m a Republican. I totally understand your dislike of this party. I feel it too. The Republican party has the best policy. That’s why I vote for Republicans. That’s why I volunteer for Republican candidates. Policy is why I’m a Republican. Let’s talk policy. How about that H.R. 899? It’s being held up by in the Education and the Workforce committee. They’re going to sit on it until it expires. This bill was submitted February 7th, 2017. It calls for the Department of Education to be terminated on December 31st, 2018. This would be great for homeschoolers. Great for America. Nope. The Democrat hacks who work for the UN will not let this happen. If only voters paid attention to policy instead of fighting over abortion, maybe this bill would have received the attention it deserved. We could have made actual progress. Yep, I hate them too.”
And then I say:
“Evangelical Christians don’t own the Republican party.”
This is my message to the public. This has been my message to the intolerant evangelical Christians who make me feel disgusted to be a Republican. You don’t own the Republican party. It’s insane that you think you do. Your insanity is why my district loses and why treasonous scum win. You and your abortion. How dare you criticize Travis Allen for not voting how you want him to vote on abortion. There are other Republicans too. And we aren’t all evangelicals. And many of us understand why abortion must remain legal and available. It’s not all about you. In fact, your criticism of Allen was why I could support him without wanting to throw up in disgust. YOU DON’T OWN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
You want religious tolerance? How about demonstrating what tolerance is for a change and stop being bullies.
No one wants to have abortions, except maybe some sick, blue-haired, screeching harpies, newly mentally ill from their gender studies degree programs and not wanting to give birth to violent rapist male oppressors who will rape them by wanting to breastfeed. For the most part, women don’t want to have abortions. This is a difficult and very private decision that should be made between the doctor and client, protected by the implied right to privacy afforded to us by the Bill of Rights. Imagine the worst day of your life, super stressful, and you must make an awful decision that you don’t want to make but you have to. How does having screeching evangelical Christians holding signs depicting aborted fetuses help you? They won’t be there during the pregnancy. They won’t help you keep your job or your home. They won’t help you with insurance, the dentist, nutrition, transportation, emotional support, delivery, and raising the child. And if your partner is abusive and you’re fearing for you safety if you can’t get an abortion, will they give you a place to stay? Maybe you have PTSD from abuse and you’re intolerable to be around because you need to see a psychiatrist. They think people aren’t complex? That we are building blocks that can be stacked and rearranged to however is convenient for them? They don’t think that some women abort their babies because they love them and don’t want them to suffer from neglect, hunger and being resented their whole lives? When I see pro-lifers protesting abortion, I see hypocrites not caring for unwanted and abandoned children that weren’t aborted, as they wished. I know what pro-life really is, and it’s not about protecting a zygote before it implants into the endometrial lining of the uterus. Life is longer than 9 months.
But it’s murder! Nope, it’s murder!! I’m not listening!!! REEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
My daughter turns 24 in December. While on maternity, a dead baby was found in the dumpster directly behind where I worked in Hermosa Beach. It had been established that this newborn infant had drawn a breath after it was born, ruling its death a homicide, one of the very few unsolved homicides in Hermosa Beach to this day. Detective Saldana was asking my coworkers if they saw my baby. The baby in the dumpster was born and killed so close to my daughter’s birth, it was a bizarre coincidence, or the mother had entered my store and saw me. Behind where I worked, there was a giant parking structure across the street. A baby could be left in the dumpster and no one would hear it cry. Someone would need to be familiar with the area to find this spot. The baby most likely died in a dumpster on a bed of trash on a cold night alone. As you might imagine, I find it a challenge not to think of this baby every year on my daughter’s birthday.
That isn’t prolife.
All the abortion restrictions and regulations in the world could not stop that baby from ending up in that dumpster. And if the mother was RH- and her baby RH+, there’s a solid chance that all of her wanted babies in the future will die because she didn’t see a doctor to receive a shot of Rhogam.
That isn’t prolife.
Here’s all I’m asking. I’m not telling anyone to change their minds about their personal views on abortion. I’m asking you to visualize two parents of a pregnant teen. The two parents fighting over what they want their daughter to do and all of their reasons reflect what they want and believe. They ignore the daughter as they fight, which she interprets correctly as not being cared about by her parents. So why should she care about herself? They don’t notice her walk away to deal with her pregnancy on her own. More babies in dumpsters. More women butchered or made ill by seeking abortions on their own using alternative or illegal methods.
Maybe it’s time we stop fighting and pay attention to the needs of each other, person by person. Insanity is trying to control and change other people, like Democrats do all the time with their fascist legislation. Sanity is letting go and letting God. Trust in God. Stop rejecting God by trying to control what God already has settled. Stop being insane.
We need less regulations regarding women’s health, not more. We need to offer unconditional affirmation to a woman facing maybe the most painful decision of her life instead of rejecting her, instead of telling her what to do. We must accept that the Bill of Rights affords us privacy. The difficult decisions made between client and doctor are none of our business! Aren’t we conservatives supposed to want less government interference in our private lives? We must accept that women with no safe options that protect their privacy will dump their babies in dumpsters in the middle of the night in Hermosa Beach. We need to meet women where they’re at if we are going to build any trust with them and protect their health. Not only do you not own the Republican party, you don’t own the world. You don’t own humanity. You don’t own us.
So get off it about abortion already and show some compassion. Stop being the reason why women have abortions, fearing their babies could be adopted by evangelical fascists who will abandon them if they turn out gay. You can have your fanatical views in your home and social circles, but show some tolerance to the outside world already.
Pay attention to policy because policy is where we connect. Economic freedom and liberty is where it’s at. We agree on so much good stuff. I’m a fan of Craig Huey, whom I highly recommend looking up if you’ve never heard of him (https://www.electionforum.org/). Policy is where Republicans win. The best candidates are Republicans. In my congressional district, there are so many non-party preferences. These are Republicans you’ve driven away. Let’s bring them back with tolerance.
The Bill of Rights affords us the implicit right to privacy. Pregnancy is a medical issue. Doctor-client information is privileged. We have no right to interfere with a doctor who is protecting the health and wellbeing of his client. If his client is desperate enough to have an illegal abortion, it’s his duty to provide her with access to safe and medically sound abortion services to protect her health. We have no right to interfere.
I’m pro-lifespan. I hope that this is a philosophical position that more of us can adopt. I hope that we can all agree that we don’t want babies being thrown away in dumpsters and that we want women who are RH- to give birth to healthy wanted babies. I hope that we can agree that life lasts longer than nine months and that we should be pro-lifespan, no more caring about the fetus until it’s born and then it’s screwed.
Evangelical Christians do not own the Republican party. Stop driving voters away. Stop causing great candidates to lose because they get overshadowed by the ugly myth that Evangelical Christians own the Republican party. You don’t. Got it? Repetition usually helps a message sink in. I just want to be sure.
Okay. Now, let’s make California great again.
God Bless America.
Alexandria Jane 