I mean would I be writing about the healthcare battlefield without touching on the war on women’s bodily autonomy during War Cookie Month? I mean, who am I if I don’t?
The Cookie Thursday is a Thing theme for May is War Cookies. Appropriately this is also the month of Memorial Day and was completely unplanned when I decided to do this theme. Apparently, my brain is smarter than my fingers.
This is the 5th Thursday of the month and I am making basic chocolate chipless cookies for the week. This is chocolate chip cookies without the chocolate chips. Kind of a vanilla sugar cookie vibe.
Since this is War Cookie Month I would be remiss if I missed a chance to beat on the drum of women’s rights. Yes, again. They keep attacking us, keep whittling away at the rights they do deign to “gift” us. Since the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v Wade, there has been a slow drip of rights being taken away. And then they realized that they could get away with more and the ripping away of women’s rights became faster and faster.
My tee shirt of the day is “They Won’t Stop at Roe.”
They aren’t even hiding the end game anymore.
Am I still mad as hell about the Dobbs decision? Fuck yes.
Will I still write about it in an unceasing drumbeat? Again, yes.
Am I alone in this? Absolutely not.
Are people not paying attention because it doesn’t affect them? Absolutely.
Vote in November. Remember what has been taken from women. And those who will be women when they grow up. And those who would be women because it is the best fit for them and that is truly who they are under the skin.
All of us are under attack.
Man the battle stations!
My next tee shirt will be a Ruth Bader Ginsberg one that says I am Tired of Listening to Old White Men.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 