26 Apr 07 “How Dare They Play Politics With My Wife’s Life?”

I’m really impressed by an anonymous Michigan blogger I ran across recently who wrote about his wife and a horrible decision that few males ever have to make:

Now I’m handed a clipboard. On it is consent to basically give my wife an abortion and kill our future child. And it is all on me, my decision, mine alone. Something I never thought I’d ever face, ever have to deal with. Made worse by being a decision of either kill the baby or potentially watch both my wife and the baby die.

Later, he found himself infuriated with the thought that the government might force him to risk his wife’s life:

I think about all those meddling politicians that would want to interject themselves into everything that just happened to me, interject themselves between me, my wife, and her doctors. And then I had a strong, visceral reaction. I wanted the mutherfuckers to die. I wanted to rip off their heads and tear out their hearts, because how DARE they play politics with my wife’s life? The baby was fine until the end. I wondered if that would have meant they’d force us to let my wife bleed until almost death before they’d let us abort …

An amazing read, with two followups.