kittyradio:

(@02: 26) It’s incredibly sad, to come back to my country - I’ve just been in Ireland, where people are fighting, desperately fighting, for women to have the right to choose if they wanna have an abortion or not. I come back here, and I say, we’ve worked for thousands of years to have some kind of independance… and you see it slipping through your hands — because the truth is, this is not about children… and when you strip away all the layers and you get to the seed, this is not about children. If it were, these people would go to the sewers in Columbia, they’d go to the AIDs wards, there’re millions of babies, they’re thrown out like trash on the streets like cabbage. Nobody cares about the children once they’re on the planet, they don’t care. They walk around with guns and blow each other up, they have no food, they have nothin’ - nobody cares about that. This is not about children. This is about having control over a woman’s sexuality. And some women don’t wanna claim that power because they feel ashamed, they feel guilty, they’re torn of love and lust… Christianity is nothing, absolutely nothing to do with that. Nothing. And it saddens me because these people, the anti-choice people, could be doing so much for the children that are on the planet. This is not about the children. And I refuse to play that game… because one has to analyse, one must look at what an issue is about - and that’s not what it’s about, and it really comes down to that… and everybody’s bought it.

— Tori Amos / WPVI TV 6 / 1992