This is personal for women. All women. Every month, sexually active woman worry about pregnancy. Even with birth control. The fear of being pregnant when you don’t want to be: whether you are mid-career or already have your family, or if you do not want children, is an ever-present possibility. To have your government tell you how to liv…
This is personal for women. All women. Every month, sexually active woman worry about pregnancy. Even with birth control. The fear of being pregnant when you don’t want to be: whether you are mid-career or already have your family, or if you do not want children, is an ever-present possibility. To have your government tell you how to live based on the decisions of six SCOTUS robes and equally provincial controlling state legislatures? No. We’re not going back.
Exactly. And even though I am past child bearing, the existence of these laws says to me that I am less than a man because a female body can be coopted to "preserve life" when a male body cannot be. Not legally. But when men are totally capable of donating blood, marrow, and one kidney each -- all much less risky and damaging than a single pregnancy and labor -- the law doesn't require it. Because clearly, men's bodies are their own.
This is personal for women. All women. Every month, sexually active woman worry about pregnancy. Even with birth control. The fear of being pregnant when you don’t want to be: whether you are mid-career or already have your family, or if you do not want children, is an ever-present possibility. To have your government tell you how to live based on the decisions of six SCOTUS robes and equally provincial controlling state legislatures? No. We’re not going back.
Exactly. And even though I am past child bearing, the existence of these laws says to me that I am less than a man because a female body can be coopted to "preserve life" when a male body cannot be. Not legally. But when men are totally capable of donating blood, marrow, and one kidney each -- all much less risky and damaging than a single pregnancy and labor -- the law doesn't require it. Because clearly, men's bodies are their own.
It makes me furious.