Reply #88: It's what I've been trying to tell people -- they want to roll back Time [View All]

[Hekate]

It's what I've been trying to tell people -- they want to roll back the clock to the days when this REALLY WAS the way things were.

It's no good to say they can't do it, or that the results will be illegal -- they can and they will, and if they get their way, the results WILL BE LEGAL. That's the meaning of passing LAWS -- it makes some things LEGAL and other things ILLEGAL.

The anti-choice crowd is pushing the envelope as hard and as fast as they can, in the hopes that something, anything, will pass the test at the SCOTUS.

And they want it ALL. Abortion and contraception. Condoms will no doubt remain available, but you know what? Men have to consent for condoms to be used. Everything having to do with women being able to control their own bodies is up for grabs.

When Sigmund Freud famously said, "Anatomy is destiny," he wasn't being sexist. He was absolutely right, because a hundred years ago women had babies and that was the story of their lives.

A woman could "choose" celibacy and refuse marriage, but few other economically viable options were available for "old maids." And rape? It happened then, just as it happens now, and wombs can be fertilized just as easily that way. (My mother's genealogy research revealed that one of my great-grandmothers divorced her husband, went to work in a rich man's household, and ended up dead of an abortion. Mom is pretty damn sure she was sexually abused by her employer. Anatomy is destiny.)

Hekate
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