FREEDOM AND LOSS
Cindy Maddera
I’m at my desk and I’m listening to my male coworkers talk about car repairs and oil leaks. Meanwhile, I’m silently boiling on the inside because the Supreme Court just reversed Roe vs. Wade. And there they all stand, talking like nothing has happened. I guess, for them, nothing has happened. They didn’t lose any rights today. Their bodies still, and always has, belong to them. They have never been second class citizens, have never known what it feels like to not have autonomy. They can’t even empathize.
I am not here to argue with anti-abortionists on the importance of legalized abortion. I will not change a mind so indoctrinated. Nor will you change my mind on the importance of legalized abortion. If hate mail from my church youth group didn’t change my mind then, you’re not going to now. This is always going to be about my body, my choice and my health and how all of that is nobody’s business but my own. I will fight for your rights to practice your religion, but I refuse to allow you to force your religious views into my life.
The Supreme Court seems pretty hell bent on taking down anything that is not in the original constitution. Roe vs Wade will not be the last thing on their list. Contraception and fertility rights will be next. Same sex marriages will be next. No person, I repeat, NO. PERSON. (exception: white men) Is guaranteed miranda rights. This means that you will be prosecuted with out a fair trail.
This country is becoming the science fiction stories. Life is imitating art in a very very bad way.