Jessica Lynch POW / Abortion Rights Hypothetical

Here's an interesting question.

Had Private Lynch gotten pregnant from the POW rape incident, do you think the neo-cons would have expected her to carry the child to term or allowed her the opportunity to control her own body?

I'd love to see this tossed this into the arena when they talk about restricting a woman's right to choose and reversing Roe v. Wade. I'd love to see a journalist or reporter toss this grenade into the neo cons laps when being interviewed and see how they would respond to this hypothetical if it were to effect someone they were using as a propaganda tool while expecting everyone else to live by a different standard and judgement.

RAW

but they are so goddam dumb that THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW IT.

When you need more cannon fodder, it doesn't matter where it comes from or how you get it. It is just disposable cannon fodder.

Like most of the other "heroic" facts of the incident?

...and not speculate about this kind of stuff.

Just because the RW uses her as a propaganda tool is no reason for us to do the same.

Ditto Pat Tillman. Both served their country honorably and dragging them into political debate makes me queasy.

When the media was actually paying attention to Lynch, I saw an idiot on another forum use Lynch to say what could've happened over there had she been aborted by her mother in some extremely assanine attempt to make a pro-life statement. I'm dissapointed to see a DUer exploit her even if it's for a pro-choice argument. I find this tactic repugnant.

And even if it is politically charged, why don't people want to offer their opinions since the law in question should not be selectively enforced whichever direction it ends up going in?

I may have editorialized my thoughts before asking everyone else's opinion, but that doesn't discount or support other people's views.

RAW

She has been through enough.

these people think a ten year old pregnant because her father raped her has no right to an abortion. For them, the fetus always takes precedence over the woman. Or in some cases, girl.

1. If Lynch had gotten pregnant and decided to carry the fetus to term, the RW would have hailed her as a Great American Hero(ine) all over again, and used her as a pawn (all over again), this time to champion the overturn of Roe v. Wade. (Extra-added RW bonus: More "Iraqis-are-godless-thugs" fodder.) Resulting progeny would become poster child for anti-choice brigades, been sent to "faith-based" school at taxpayers' expense, received college fund on day of birth, appeared in regular National Enquirer updates ("Lynch Nightmare Rape Baby Takes First Step!" ... "'Iraqis Evil, Bush God,' sez America's Favorite War Baby" ... "New Photos: Jessie's Girl Is All Grown Up!") -- and finally get so screwed up, s/he would become drug-addicted, homeless, and/or kills self.

2. If Lynch had gotten pregnant and decided to have an abortion, any RWers who knew about it would have shut up about it, and, later, when the story came out, would have denied it as LW propaganda.

Millions of women "don't want to be dragged into this debate", but if the right-wing maniacs and Christian Taliban get their way, they will be, whether they like it or not, right? If you want to get pissed off, go read the American Life League's position on "Why Rape and Incest are NO EXCUSE!... I mean, yeah, Jessica Lynch shouldn't be dragged into the debate. Neither should a 12 year old incest victim. When the fundamentalists stop trying to insert the boot of federal law into the private choices of women, then it won't be up for discussion anymore, will it?