Tuesday Top of Mind 4/9/24-bbbbrrrraaaaiiinnssss

I was going to write about something completely different for this Tuesday Top of Mind. I had it written and everything but posted.

And then Arizona’s Supreme Court upheld an 1864 anti-abortion law, making it the law of Arizona.

A near-total abortion ban.

Okay. I see what you did there.

They resurrected a zombie law. A law that is technically still on the books but hasn’t been enforced in DECADES.

This completely dismisses more than half of their population. Because in 1864 women couldn’t 1) vote 2) hold office 3) hold property 4) hold a job 5) have a bank account. No women voted for it. Because they couldn’t. Women didn’t gain the right to vote in Arizona until 1912.

I am so incandescent with rage about this further degradation of women’s bodily autonomy and rights.

This zombie law has lurched back to life, aided by those who seek to control women and is now going to be fed the blood of those who it tortures. The women who request abortions and the often doomed children they are seeking to protect. Just like Texas. Just like Tennessee. Just like Florida. Just like any other state that has passed anti-abortion bills since the overturning of Roe v Wade and the Dobbs decision.

This is what Justices Alito and Thomas were signaling when they brought up the Comstock law against mailing indecent and lewd things in the mail during arguments about the legality of mailing mifepristone through the mail. You know, the abortion pill. The Comstock law hasn’t been enforced since the 1930s. I remember when it was bandied about when Larry Flynt was on trial for distributing lewd magazines in the 1970s and 1980s. That magazine was Hustler, among others. If I remember correctly, that is why magazines such as these started to be shipped in brown paper wrapping. To protect the eyes, you know.

Eye roll.

Cruelty and control are their endgame.

They don’t care about the potential child. They just want to control women and bring them to heel because we dare to think that we are people in our own right. With our own rights. With our own ideas. With our own bodily autonomy.

Cruelty is the point.

Control is the endgame.

Also endgame is to have the hard-won rights of women rolled back to when we could be controlled. If that ever was a thing.

This is what the attack on no-fault divorce is about.

This is what the attack on abortion rights is about.

This is what the attack on women’s bodily autonomy is about.

This is what the upcoming attack on birth control is about.

I’ve been writing and marching about it for years.

Increasing the birth rate of WHITE women by WHITE men is the ultimate goal.

This is and always has been about control and cruelty.

This is where being a Cassandra really sucks. No one believes us.

Gah!!!