Yesterday marked 51 years since Roe versus Wade. The ruling protected a woman’s constitutional right to choose their own path, including the right to choose an abortion.
Well, thought men everywhere, we’ll see about that.
After all, if a woman as the right to her own body just think of what else she will decide to have the rights for.
She may decide that she has the right to end a terrible marriage. Not terrible because of abuse, or because of infidelity, but because they just don’t suit after all. There has been a rumbling, deep in the men’s groups, about the downfall of society was the no-fault divorce. This means that the woman (or man) can just decide that they don’t want to be married anymore.
Gasp, the audacity!
Yes, this is heavy on the sarcasm. The no-fault divorce will be the focus soon enough. And is what will be the focus of some groups next as I’ve heard the rumblings.
However, the Roe v Wade decision guaranteed a woman’s privacy in health care matters, including abortion.
Apparently we women don’t know our own mind.
But we do; and that scares people to death.
As I’ve written before, it is not about the child. If it was there would be affordable daycare, rent, healthcare. You know, the things that are required to raise the infant to adulthood. Where they can be a tax paying entity.
Money and power and control.
I’ve written about it many times because it is heavy on the mind. Especially 51 years after Roe v Wade was decided by the Supreme Court 7-2.
The Dobbs decision was June 24, 2022. Notwithstanding the outright lies to get three of the justices on the court during their confirmation hearings, this kicked back the decision to the states.
According to the Guttmacher Institute and their work on reproductive health, the state laws run the gamut of total ban, without exclusions for rape or incest or health of woman, to 6 weeks (the so-called heartbeat bills), 8 weeks after last menstrual period (essentially a 6 week ban), 12 weeks (end of first trimester, and also before the anatomy scans for sex of the baby are even done), 15 weeks after last menstrual period (essentially a 12 week ban), viability (which is nebulous and being pushed by medical science all the time), 24 weeks after last menstrual period, and one 3rd trimester. A couple of states don’t have any abortion ban laws at all. Confusing, right?
Raise a glass to the Roe v Wade decision, light a candle, not matter what you feel you have to do to mourn the rights that were stripped from ALL women in this country in June 2022.
Because some men said so. Okay, there was a woman too.
How dare they?
Taking away the power and the control and the patriarchical overtones, it is, and always has been, about cold hard cash. Taxes, I mean. The taxes that the baby could have paid as an adult. Or, in some states, as child laborers.
Not to mention to torturing of unborn babies who are incompatible with life, or the women who die because their state said no. Even though the pregnancy is killing them.
Mourn them too.
Then put the steel in your spine and fight to get our rights back.
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