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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs women we are watching our gains be chipped away every day..
And the sad thing is, now a woman could actually put us back to a time we did not have authority over our own bodies.
My Grandmothers could not vote at 21 much less 18 as we do today...
When I was a young woman going to college at the U of M in Minneapolis, I took a stand to get the law overturned there that let husbands commit their wives to institutions without a Doctors intervention.. just on the Husbands decision.. and now we are about to put into the highest court in the land a woman who purposely belongs to a group that teaches submission to the husband..how can she be a judge when she cannot even have her opinion in her own home??
There is a cold wind blowing out of DC..
mzmolly
(50,996 posts)a free press, legitimate elections and so on. ..
This is a truly frightening time. I wonder if Susan Sarandon thinks HRC would have selected Amy Barrett?
I'm sad, scared and angry.
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)More women in elected office than ever before. More women in elected office making white old Republican males look ridiculous.
Granted it may take years and years to undo/fix much of the trumpworlds damage.
Who knows tho? Maybe Biden will expand the Supreme Court and real change can happen sooner rather than later. Our lives depend on it.
Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)and now we are going to get this mess on the court.. hopefully she will surprise us .. but she just seems so clueless on things..
Blue Owl
(50,414 posts)RazzleCat
(732 posts)At long last you could not be denied a bank account, loan, or credit card because of you sex or race. Prior to this act it was a standard procedure to not allow women or people of color to receive any of the above, unless of course you were extremely rich.
MuseRider
(34,111 posts)she knows her husband will take care of her.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)First we need a case...so we gin up one with a person suffering kidney failure but with a genetic match to a woman in their family.
We then have them denied an operation that forces the woman to utilize her healthy kidneys to support the failing kidneys of another person.
That becomes the new precedent for abortion - stop debating person-hood or 'rights to life'. A fetus, upon the request of the woman bearing it should be surgically removed and placed in the custody of a pro-life advocacy group to maintain and care for...let them defend the indentured servitude and involuntary slavery of internal organ-sharing of and by females to fetuses.
I can show them the 13th amendment:
If a fetus can survive upon removal from a woman's body, then it is no longer imposing involuntary servitude on a woman (this is usually not possible without extreme medical intervention until the 3rd trimester); HOWEVER, should an emergency arise after the onset of such a delineating line, and the development of the fetus cease to progress (a stillborn or blighted pregnancy or fetal death in utero causing sepsis or potential loss of fertility to the woman) or the survival of the mother become medically endangered, abortion of the fetus again becomes subject to the involuntary servitude clause of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
Show me the difference between forcibly making a woman an involuntary organ donor or human dialysis machine and making a different woman an involuntary brood mare for the state or more appropriately for the puritanical prudes of the religious right who SAY they are "Pro-life" until it becomes time to actually foster and support that life when they tie to someone else's finances.
Women get to choose how their bodies are used, period. And they - and they alone - get to seek outside consul for such decisions. IF they wish to consult a biological father, priest, shaman, witch or any other type of advisor or mentor, then again THE WOMAN decides to seek that consul, not the STATE and not a religious faction of one party of the state.
Polly Hennessey
(6,799 posts)If the wrong party is in power all gains could be lost. I was told when young that what I was voting for was the Supreme Court. I have never forgotten that advice.
Runningdawg
(4,517 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)women's march. We have been yelling about it. Pretty much why the Supreme Court taking a back seat was so hard for us. Too many people didn't much care about losing the SC.
Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)On their very own lives.