I voted early. (Did my part to get’er in Office.) Like I felt in 2016, I was proud to finally get to vote for a woman President. That hardly ever happens. We’ll see if more than 50 percent of American voters feel like I do.
And unlike 2016, I voted with one issue in mind: Abortion. Abortion. Abortion.
It should have NEVER been made illegal like it was long ago, two generations ago, before I was old enough to know it used to be against the law and females used hangars or trusted their most private body parts to anyone (usually men for some reason) who said they could end an unwanted pregnancy for a few bucks (and sometimes other favors). Not in the year 2023. Not with all the modern medical science we as a First World country live with and are guided by, trusting tough and crucial decisions based on our face-the-facts knowledge presented to us by doctors. Not when our neighbor Mexico and other long-time-coming progressive nations are finally seeing the light and going the way the U.S. did in 1973 by legalizing abortion.
Look, this election is going to be based on one issue: the economy. But hardly mentioned—as to not ruffle the feathers of the angry, loud, know-it-all, nosy, controlling, manipulative, judgmental, hypocritical and interfering anti-abortion crowd—is restoring pregnancy choice to women and girls, restoring THEIR privacy in this matter as Law of the Land. Instead, we have to deal with this ridiculous backwoods outcome of a piecemeal pattern that occurred among the states as soon as Roe was overturned by the current U.S. Supreme Court courtesy of Trump’s three appointees who lean against allowing half the U.S. population to determine their future.
A human right was taken away. But it only impacted women and girls.
And not all that many Americans, the ones who support abortion, especially when deemed medically necessary, are up in arms about it. But we should be.
We’re all sisters
Starting with a woman’s right to choose, now that that is removed or made close to impossible, that is and always has been an economic decision. And in America, let’s face it, more than half the women pregnant are unmarried and will end up taking care of the babies themselves. That does not mean the fathers aren’t paying child support. They are now that it is really uncool and illegal not to pay. But couples aren’t getting married or even living together just because they are expecting a baby. The bottom line that only women know is how children’s needs and health mostly involve the mothers who must take time off work and are not financially compensated by employers. Rich people know nothing about this economic problem. Middle class has a good idea about it but can manage with grandmothers and others helping out. But poor women, who do not earn a livable wage to begin with let alone enough money to provide for their children, can get caught up in a downward economic cycle.
Then there are the statistics about miscarriage, which by the way is the next level of control that those who call themselves pro-life advocates in office (every one of them men) are looking into. They want a list of every woman and girl who’s suffered a miscarriage. Why is that? What are they wanting to do: strap her to a public whipping post in the town square? The reason they want a list of females who’ve miscarried is because these men, who got themselves elected to public office, actually believe females are to blame for their miscarriages. What a bunch of morons. We’re talking about men here; OK, OK, just some men. And actually, that’s another point: Thank God, we’re talking about only a very few men—but they are damn powerful, too big for their britches. Hey: WE HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN ABORTION AND MISCARRIAGE.
The statistics about miscarriage (a nonmedical term meant to be a comforting euphemism created by society because doctors still call a miscarriage an abortion—a pregnancy that’s been aborted by nature/God or physician) is 30 percent of all pregnancies. However, most miscarriages occur in the first weeks to three months of pregnancy when females may be unaware they’re pregnant. So the stats could be as high as 50 percent. Whether 30 or up to half of all pregnancies ending in miscarriage, it is a HUGE number. Only men—OK, a certain type of men (creeps)—would try to control females who’ve had a miscarriage. It’s as if men of this ilk really think women go out dancing and partying when they’ve miscarried. No, only women know this, but many are depressed to suicidal over having a miscarriage. Only an idiot would not sympathize with her. Send her a card, flowers, something instead of adding her name to a government list to be harassed and investigated.
Men have a lot to do with abortion
The most important reason I still support abortion on demand in THIS country is because … when it comes to molestation, it’s not one in four girls. It’s one in three. Those are our statistics here in America.
With all that molestation, there’s gotta be a lot of unintended pregnancies. And many states like Texas do not allow abortion for incest and rape.
Why is that?
Why does my state and others give men the right to impregnate girls [I know rape is illegal, but our society can’t stomach discussing this problem] and then force the girls to give birth?
Haven’t the victims of this common yet unspeakable traumatic crime suffered enough?
Why is it that men are calling the shots on this issue, a complex situation involving male power and little girl innocence, that male legislators can’t comprehend or imagine because they’re so—God, what’s the word for a sex who would do this to the other sex?
Ah, sexism is the reason. God gave Eve to Adam for one reason: and to this day, there are men who still believe women are good for only one thing and two if producing more human beings.
There is something twisted and, well, nasty about all this anti-abortion legalese. Male legislators are involved. Lawyers are involved. People who think they are followers of Jesus Christ are involved. Hell, everyone’s involved except for girls who’ve been sexually abused and women who may have the same story or as U.S. citizens have the right to think their bodies are their private domain. Even doctors don’t know what to do with a pregnant woman experiencing a life-or-death situation, which is not uncommon at all.
It is life.
And the fact, that apparently only women know, is: When it comes to life, no one’s in control, buddy.