JUST ANOTHER Sunday night punk rock concert. But these kids are wearing bright red sweat shirts inscribed with the words I Survived on the front and Over 1/3 Of Our Generation Has Been Wiped Out on the back.
(via rotten.com)
don't the True Hardcore Straight-Edgers regard this Jesus stuff to be just another crutch, like marijuana and sex and caffeine and such?
so were the sex pistols already irrelevant when they wrote "bodies?" this is more of a reaction to a selfish middle-class crusade of vastly inflated importance. you act like you have to be aligned with pat robertson in order to see your average pro-choicer as a pompous hypocrite. the "pro-choice movement is more about the convenience of waspy middle-age sleazebags than about reproductive rights. who told these chicks they couldn't take the pill? and if it's my body, my choice, then why can't people smoke crack?
My point was that it's about as punk as spiking your hair up, putting a safety pin through your nose and going to protest against bus route changes.
Besides which, the alternative to legal abortion is not no abortion but dangerous back-alley abortion. If a woman doesn't want to carry a child, she won't; the question is, should she pay with her life for the decision not to.
"...and featuring Christian punk bands..."
Now there's an oxymoron.
Back-Alley Abortion would make a good name for a punk band.
Goddam straight-edgers. They make baby jesus cry.