Friday, August 31, 2012

I'm Pregnant! (According to Arizona).

Over the course of the past week, yet another governmental flub has caused me to want to move to another country. Permanently.

What? You may ask. There is so much to choose from- "legitimate" rape, abortion is wrong no matter what (even in cases of incest and rape), and one man believes that the South will secede from the United States, etc.

This time, it's none of those. A new law was signed and is scheduled to go into affect in Arizona. According to this law, pregnancy is considered to begin two weeks before conception (due to gestational periods). So, essentially, a woman is pregnant two weeks before she has sex and gets pregnant.



I either missed an odd joke or the invention of the time machine.

Following this logic, if a woman is pregnant before she is pregnant, every woman is pregnant!

I get to be pregnant without actually being pregnant! (I called my dad and congratulated him on being a grandpa by Arizona standards).

I can park in the "expectant mother" spots closer to stores.
I don't need a reason for chocolate. At 3am. Go get it.
What did you do today? I made a human.


See? I get all of the benefits of pregnancy without actually having to have an abortion or a kid!


Yeah, I'm happy.


But, actually, I'm not pregnant. Not in reality. Nor is anyone else pregnant two weeks before conception. I know this is an invention of political rhetoric used to further limit the amount of time in which a woman can have an abortion, but, COME ON! I couldn't die two weeks before I crashed while driving my car, why can I be pregnant before conceiving? Or anyone else for that matter?


What do you think? Please let me know.


For more information:
http://www.examiner.com/article/new-law-arizona-states-pregnancy-begins-two-weeks-before-conception?fb_comment_id=fbc_10151017873895264_23842687_10151024499090264#f33cdc101c




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