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Ultimately we all have rights as to how our medical care should be delivered.  As long as you are deemed of right mind, the decision is yours.  There's something called a Living Will that every hospital you ever enter will ask if you have.  My parents had theirs in order all properly signed and notarized.  I was their go to girl on that because....you know why.  An advance directive in the pocket of the right person makes sure your wishes are honored.  Hey...you may have to argue with the gigantic systems that make money off of futile care but it's worth it because THAT person trusted you as an advocate.  Which oddly enough brings me around to the subject of abortion.

There is a legal precedent that guarantees a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy.  Rape.  Incest.  If this woman knows enough to figure out she's pregnant six weeks is a reasonable amount of time to have this done safely and legally.  I am pro-life meaning that decisions must be made quickly.  For funding to be withheld from Planned because they perform abortions is absurd.  No federal money goes to that part of it.  The federal funding covers birth control and basic women's health.  Google it.  Evangelical fury has turned this into a talking point in the political arena.  

I remember the day I got the call from my daughter and she asked if I was sitting down.  "Are you pregnant" I asked.  The answer was yes following about ten dolla' store tests.  Alrighty then.  That little miracle is 18 months old now and surrounded by so much love you can see it in her smile.  Her mother made a decision knowing that it wouldn't be easy raising her alone.  Thankfully that has not turned out to be the case.  It takes a village y'all.

My friend Old Horsetail Snake was a former speech writer for the Governor of Oregon.  He and his wife both did the assisted suicide thing when the time came.  It's the only humane thing to offer to an elderly population or those with terminal illness.  You can only do so much THC before it's time to give up.   The states are in charge of this and the northwestern ones are particularly understanding of human suffering.  

The death penalty thing has moved from a negative to a positive to me despite the advances in DNA.  I say update your damn database and release the innocent.  Fry the rest of those freaks.  Drug charges should be null and void and replaced with supervised mental health.  It's a start.

Thanks for reading dear ones.  Poops is in a mood ^j^