By Philip Foley
Health clinics offering
abortions in Texas filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday to block a new state
rule that could shut down more than half of the state’s remaining providers
this fall, forcing women seeking an abortion in southern and western Texas to
drive several hundred miles each way or go out of state.
An unwanted conception is a militant invasion
into a girl’s body, a woman’s body; biological warfare waged inside her
skin. It is physical and psychological
attack. Every cell plundered. Every breath conscripted. Her intimate organs battered, conquered. Assaulted by her bodily systems. Her external self disfigured. Permanently scarred. Her spirit brutalized by overwhelming
shame. She is cast aside while
forced to inhabit a body turned enemy, tethered to a carcass that no longer
belongs to her. The agony of this
physical and psychological violence endured by girls and women impregnated
against their will is drowned out by the shouts of moral accusers, disregarded
by cowards, and contorted to fit inside the sugarcoated fantasies of the naive
and ignorant where such girls and women are forever imprisoned.
