Don't like Planned Parenthood--MAKE IT UNNECESSARY.

I don't understand how Planned Parenthood became the bad guy. I swear every time I've been in there I've been surrounded by pregnant gals and new moms bringing their baby in for a check up.

The refusal to support birth control on the part of the anti-abortion crowd really torpedoes any argument that they're not about controlling sexuality.

It seems that a large part of this crowd believes that every pregnancy is directly the result of God's will and action, and by using any method to stop you from getting pregnant you are thwarting the will of God. (Don't ask them how puny humans can stop the will of an all-powerful god. That just makes them mad. Let's say "attempting to thwart" which is just as bad, I guess.)

I am also aware of a belief that scares the ever-loving fuck out of me, which is the belief that (deploy Rio font) THE SOULS OF THE CHILDREN GOD MEANS FOR YOU TO HAVE ARE WAITING FOR YOU TO GET PREGNANT just floating around your head somewhere, I dunno, or lined up in a chute in heaven maybe, but ONLY YOU can have them and if you REFUSE to have children THEY WILL NEVER GET BORN. It's like you're killing them! I don't know what these folks believe about people having babies through IVF, and I don't want to think about it. It's crazy, and it was just about the scariest discussion I ever got into about birth control.

I swear every time I've been in there I've been surrounded by pregnant gals and new moms bringing their baby in for a check up.

Haven't you heard? It's a money-making machine! Abortions for fun and profit!

From the New Spoon River Anthology:

Because the Bible says, Thou shalt not kill,
They arrested me for talking on birth control.
But if the stream of life should have its way;
And if to loose it and then divert it be a crime,
Then not to loose it at all is a crime.
Why not arrest a few deliberate celibates?

It's that kind of woolly-headed thinking that gives us The Handmaid's Tale. Sigh.

and if you REFUSE to have children THEY WILL NEVER GET BORN

Well hey, I say that's better than insisting on being born. Now THAT would be scary!

It goes Muncie, Windsor IL, Crawfordsville, Frankfort, Anderson, Portland, Trafalgar. 7 shows in 6 days.

Darn. None of those are close enough for my parents to dog-sit for you (they regularly have dogs-of-friends at their house. There's constant access to a big yard.)

California people, are you thinking yes or no on prop 37 (the GMO food labeling)?

Aww, that's a nice thought, Debet, thank you. I'll figure it out. It'll probably be fine leaving them with my folks. I guess I'll just see how the kids do over Thanksgiving and I can play the tour by ear.