Tuesday top of mind 6/24/24- TWO years post Roe

Two years have passed since the fall of Roe v Wade.

Well, this isn’t a dispatch I ever thought I’d write. And I wouldn’t be writing it now if some people, cough, cough, hadn’t lied at their job interview to the Senate.

Am I still mad as hell?

You bet your sweet bottom dollar that I am.

However, this isn’t about me.

It is about the women who are raped and no longer have access to safe reproductive care, including abortions, and have to now carry their rapist’s child to term.

It is about the doomed children who are not meant to live in this world but the safest exit is not allowed anymore.

It is about the women who are carrying the doomed children who can no longer access safe reproductive care and risk their fertility and their lives waiting for some government asshole to decide that they can have the care they desperately need. And be denied by the hospital administration who are scared of their own shadow and the lawsuits that will happen if word got out that an abortion was allowed on a dead clump of cells.

It is about the same-sex couples who can see the writing on the wall and know that their number is coming up next in this unholy war against progress.

It is about the girls who are watching this play out and knowing that they have less freedom than their mothers did at their age.

It is about the increase in infant deaths in some of these states (cough, cough, Texas) where there is no “miracle” at birth. These infants know only pain in their short lives.

It is about the whole-cloth womb slavery of all women from puberty to menopause.

It is about the women who have been told they no longer are in control of their bodily autonomy.

It is about the old white men deciding that THEY know better what I as a woman need and can do with my body.

It is about the taxpayers that are being “killed” during abortions before they can add to others’ profits.

It is about and has always been about, control.

It is about control of women.

Because if it was about control of everyone, men would have to be sterilized when they hit puberty. Or lock up the penis up in a fancy cage until they are deemed old enough to use it.