"A letter from Prison" email I got forwarded to me...replies to send are welcome :)

[The Straight Story]

My friends,
I have been here only a few months now and wanted to let you know what is going on - and to ask for your help.

Being locked up and dependent on others for everything is really difficult, when I get out it will be the happiest day of my life.
The feeling of being trapped is overwhelming - without the warden I would die, and that is a scary feeling.
What is worse is that today I overhead the warden and someone else talking about the death penalty for me! Oh, it's painless the doctor was saying, I won't feel a thing!

How can this be? I didn't do anything - I am innocent, really I am. I know many say they are, I just want the chance to prove it.

- Signed, an unborn child

The warden is, as you can tell, the mother - the prison her womb, and the sentence of an innocent child is a painful death.

Democrats talk about pain to animals, how unjust the death penalty is, and giving animals the same rights we have - and yet they want to allow doctors to tear apart a child who never asked to be there.

They want us to feel compassion, while they are telling people that the life inside of someone is nothing but a glob that has no feelings. Is a baby less than an animal simply because it is inside of you and dependent on you?

More babies were aborted this year than soldiers dying to protect our country, you don't see that body count in the news though. When innocents are killed in war they are up in arms on the way to the abortion clinic.

Sarah Palin is a real woman, who chooses life over death - everything else they are saying about her means nothing.

Pass this on to everyone on your list, spreading the truth will bring you many blessings.

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Spreading the truth? :rofl:

Funny how all this applies JUST to babies with them, how about stepping it up a notch and applying the whole life thing to everyone??? This planet is a prison we are all on...

At any rate, too much to rant about with this one, will reply to it when I chill a bit more :)

[ogneopasno]

1. WTF -- I am so stumped by that metaphor.

The womb is a prison? What a sad way of looking at pregnancy.

[Oregone]

2. The warden can do what they want. What if the inmate shanks them? What if the inmate broke in?

[The Straight Story]

4. new HBO Series: Baby Shank

:rofl:

[LiberalHeart]

3. Dear Unborn Child....

I understand why you want to stay where you are. You're in a cozy, warm place. I spent six years without cozy. Without warm.

Sincerely,
John McCain
POW

[Marr]

6. HAHA- good one. nt

[O.M.B.inOhio]

5. Hey, wait a minute -- fetuses can't sign letters!

How many Iraqi would-be mothers got killed or did not get the care they needed because of Bush's war? Ms. Palin, how many pregnancies resulted from the abstinence only campaigns, and how many MORE abortions happened because of this ideological policy?

Yes, if these people were pro-life, they would honor all life, or at least all human life. But even from the anti-abortion perspective, the Democratic ticket is the moral choice.

[The Straight Story]

11. The freakin damn sad thing is

they don't care about anyone BUT the unborn - once you are out, you don't matter. Got health care issues that are killing you? too bad - get a job and get coverage...

[The Stranger]

7. "A Letter From A Real Prison"

My friends,

I have been here only a few months now and wanted to let you know what is going on - and to ask for your help.

Being locked up and dependent on others for everything is really difficult, when I get out it will be the happiest day of my life.

The feeling of being trapped is overwhelming - without the warden I would die, and that is a scary feeling.

What is worse is that today I overhead the warden and someone else talking about the death penalty for me! Oh, it's painless the doctor was saying, I won't feel a thing!

How can this be? I didn't do anything - I am innocent, really I am. I know many say they are, I just want the chance to prove it.

- Signed, an Abortion Criminal Under Republican Laws Criminalizing Abortion

The warden is, as you can tell, the mother - the prison is a real prison, and the sentence of terminating a pregnancy is a painful death in a real life prison.

Republicans talk about pain to fetuses, how unjust abortion is, and giving fetuses the same rights we have - and yet they want the Government and the State to consider abortion murder -- thereby sending young women and girls to prison, possibly for the rest of their lives, or even puttin gthem to death, simply for having a say over their own body.

They want us to feel compassion, while they are telling people that a woman's living, breathing body is nothing but a container, a "prison," essentially an abomination. Is a woman less than a fetus simply because the Government wants to take control of her and put her in prison for exercising the most fundamental right of all -- a right to some say in one's own body?

More and more talk about fetuses and "life," but no talk about the Government and the Church seeking to criminalize women for having a say in their own body, and the criminal liability involved for acting in violation of the State's laws in exercising that say over their own body. Those against reproductive rights want us to feel compassion, but they never tell you about putting women in prison, or even putting women to death, for exercising their right to choose.

Sarah Palin has abandoned real women, and seeks to have the Government, the Police and Criminal Law Enforcement put women in prison or to death for exercising the right to have a say over their own bodies. Everything else they are saying about her means nothing.

Pass this on to everyone on your list, spreading the truth will bring you many blessings.

(Copyright 2008 The Stranger)

[Mabus]

8. Love child, never meant to be

Love Child
Never meant to be
Love Child
(Scorned by) Society
Love Child
Always second best
Love Child
(Different from) Different from the rest

I don't why that song just popped into my head.

[Aristus]

9. The womb is a prison? Well, blame your parents; they put you there!

B-)

[zbdent]

10. safest place for a fetus is in a liberal's womb ...

it's just not likely to be made public that a fetus exited a conservative womb early ... and dead ... likely hushed up (that's when you hear about patient privacy ...)

What about the second "appendectomy" on the one Bush twin? Nobody talks about that ...

[norepubsin08]

12. Go Fuck Yourself!!!!

The world would be a much better place today if more neo-conservative, asshat repukes had been aborted..in fact for those folks, like yourself, I am actually a proponent of retroactive abortion!!!

[The Straight Story]

13. I just cannot wrap my head around these folks at times, really

They love life, yet promote death - and when it comes to health care they run away. Poor? too bad.

I just cannot fathom them and their hatred. I get quite a few emails a day from 'well meaning' family members - all of whom love palin, bush, mccain, etc. And all they have are talking points from rush/fox/etc and never really read anything.

ARRRGH!

[LiberalHeart]

17. oops ... misread message

[knitter4democracy]

14. If I got that one, I'd have to send a reply.

Thanks for trying to sentence me to death. My doctor, my husband, and I have all agreed that, with my complicated health issues, getting pregnant again would put me at much higher risk of death. So, even though my husband's been snipped, we still check and worry, just in case anything goes wrong. And yes, getting pregnant at this point would be something going wrong, and I would have to get an abortion.

Of course, you don't give a crap about me as a person or my children who need their mom to stick around as long as possible or my husband who doesn't want to bury his wife. That's what anti-choice laws get you: orphans and widowers.

[The Straight Story]

15. Thank you for that reply

Someone needs to knock some sense into these folks.

I tire of people trying to control the lives of others and their choices.

[knitter4democracy]

20. As do I.

I considered myself personally pro-life for years, believing I'd never end a pregnancy of mine, though I was never comfortable with telling other women what to do in their own private situations, even at the height of my evangelical fervor. Now, though, in some very uncomfortable talks with my doctor and my husband and a lot of soul-searching, I've realized that getting pregnant again would most likely put me at just too high of a risk of death. According to Palin's group, my risk wouldn't be high enough, so they'd make me carry the baby--but they sure as hell wouldn't help my kids after I died.

These people need to get their heads out of their asses. I know that my mom's pretty pro-life (won't march but is really uncomfortable with abortion), and when I told her what we'd decided, she was horrified, but she understood it and said she was glad that I had the power to choose. She's been a lot more understanding since.

[yardwork]

16. Comparing a pregnant woman to the warden of a prison? Disgusting.

Why do these people hate women?

Look at the typical person holding an anti-choice sign at a rally. Weaselly inadequate middle aged white men who look like they've never been employed a day in their lives and spend a lot of time looking at child pornography in their mother's basements while swigging bottles of Thunderbird. Why do they hate women? They hate themselves and they're taking it out on everyone else.

[brooklynite]

18. As with any prison...

at the end of your sentence, they give you $10, kick you out, and you're on your own. Sounds like Republican policy to me...

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. letter should be signed.......

"future cannon fodder"