You obviously know nothing about pregnancy. Pregnancy is not some pleasant and universally safe experience. Homicide is fast becoming the number one cause of death to pregnant women. It is a dangerous transaction that must be monitored. Many women develop life threatening conditions during their pregnancy that could end their lives. Are you going to take care of the children these women have borne prior to the pregnancy you would force them to carry out on pain of death and imprisonment? Will you be there to dry their tears, help them with their homework, tuck them in at night, see them off to college, put food on the table, help them welcome their new children in the world? Would you be able to stand at their mother's graveside and look them in the eye and tell them "I know your mother is dead, but my morals and judgment supersedes your right to a parent?"

When I go to see my OB/GYN, I do not want you peeking into the stirrups or wielding a speculum. You are not invited between my legs. Ever. Even those who are invited between my legs do not have a say so in my medical care. And unless I woke up to you in my bed this morning, you are not my health care proxy. If I get pregnant, willingly or not, I will make my own decision about how to handle it. I do not know you, I do not care about you, and I have no use for your opinions when it comes to my body.

I had a friend in college who was raped. As a result of that rape, she got pregnant. It was my distinct honor to have accompanied her to the doctor to support her decision to terminate that pregnancy. It was not because I think abortion is a wonderful thing, but because I was there to support her decision in the face of people like you who would seek to violate her all over again by making her do things with her body that she did not want to do.

You anti-choice types are so out of line. My partner's mother is a fairly high profile OB/GYN. She was put on that infamous "Wanted Poster" list. Her name, address, phone number, license plate number, the names of her husband (and his relevant information), the names of her children, the names of the school her children attend were all put on that wanted poster. They all had to wear bullet proof vests to work and school, respectively. One of her coworkers, a pioneer of the sonogram, was shot by a woman who had a history of bombing womens' clinics. The judge who sentenced her called her a terrorist, not a pro-life terrorist, just a plain old terrorist.

The fact that health care of women is ghettoized, the target of frequent legislative measures that leaves them one signature away from being forced to be celibate lest they be saddled (yes, saddled) with a child they do not want or being forced to carry a child to term that could result in her death, or was the product of rape or incest, is unconscionable. People like you want to turn this country into another country that closely monitors the reproductive "health" of women: China. Does anyone know Cantonese for "mind your business?"

I can answer that for you. Last night, I was watching the debate and I heard John McCain reference a man named Joe Wurzelbacher from Ohio. I turned to my partner and said "I know that name from somewhere." Needless to say, she looked at me like I was crazy for saying I knew a plumber from Ohio. It was not the plumber I knew, but the family name. The Wurzelbacher name belongs to one Robert Wurzelbacher. Robert Wurzelbacher is the former CEO of a bank connected to Lincoln Savings & Loan and is none other than the son-in-law of Charles Keating (you remember him, right? You know McCain is part of the Keating 5). Robert Wurzelbacher was sentenced to 40 months in the federal pen for defrauding those who made the mistake of trusting him with his money. Robert Wurzelbacher is a major donor to the Republican party and a relative of Joe the Plumber. Not only did I have the satisfaction of proving I was not crazy, I exposed McCain for the phony I know he is.

You would be interested to know that Joe the Plumber does own several businesses and according to state records has tax liens against them. He was a plant at the Obama rally. He is not worried about buying a business or higher taxes. He owns businesses and hasn't paid taxes.

To sum it up: Joe the Plumber is a close relative of a man John McCain tried to keep out of prison. Joe the Plumber owns his business. Joe the Plumber is a tax deadbeat. Oh, and I checked voter rolls, Joe the Plumber will not be voting for McCain. He isn't registered to vote. Say it ain't so, Joe!