Some people need visuals. Some people need encouragement. Some people are too young to remember. Some need to be reminded, We are women. There is a war on women. The war on women from republicans is from paycheck to their healthcare, and their very lives.
I am making this a photo diary to explain how close we are to turning back the clock and only YOU can get out the vote and vote early to prevent this step back into time for some of the female gender's darkest days.
Follow me below the squiggly to get a real picture of what we are facing as women.
Our past could become our future. Our little girls and minorities are facing the same
obastacles some of we grandmother's, and Mother's faced. Some of you do not have a clue just how bad things can get. I am here to remind you. The Supreme Court will have at least two if not three justices appointed. A generation of new suffrage will begin, if President Obama does not get elected. Keep these visuals in your mind.. They are real. I lived most of the change and they are not times I want to return to. I certainly do not want my daughters or granddaughters or yours to go into this nightmare.
I remember hearing the whispers of the older generation talking about the accident
Miss Doe had , then a hush would fall across the front porch when they heard little ears were listening. I remember the talk of coat hangers. I remember the talk of how
my Uncle (the local Dr. in a small southern town) didn't get there in time to save
Miss Doe. The time was the mid 50's and amazing how, even at a young age, children
still remember evesdropping and learning the things they did. Coat hangers, Miss Doe,
dead. I don't know the specifics, I never found out but she is as dead today as she
was when she used that coat hanger because Roe V Wade was non existent.
The Republicans are lying about doing away with abortions. They mean for you. One cannot legislate their version of lifestyle and they will continue to have abortions. They will be able to fly into areas of privilege to obtain them. They always did. They always will. I happen to be pro-life with the exception of the Hyde amendment but that is my decision and should not be a decision made by anyone but a woman and the doctor. it is a family matter and not a government matter. It is private. It is a choice.
Birth control and the pill did not come about until the 60's and I am quite sure there were many Miss Doe's. The Supreme Court will have a majority of conservative activist judges appointed to the bench for generations to come if Mitt Romney is elected. Do you know what that means? That means your daughter or granddaughter could end up in prison for trying to plan a family or end a pregnancy if raped. They could be put in prison or jailed for ending a pregnancy even if the life of the Mother is at stake. That is of course if she doesn't die from lack of healthcare and the doctor does not get there in time and he won't. Doctors don't make house calls anymore and
more than likely her fate will be the same as Miss Doe. Birth Control? Forget that.
Birth control I suppose will be so costly unless covered under insurance,and the Affordable Health Care Act will no doubt be
repealed by Romney, and birth control would be non existent for anyone who was not of well economic means. Federal mandated medicaid....GONE !
The young lady who finds a job needs to make ends meet. She may have children, many children to clothe, feed, shelter, school and without a fair wage she is again suffering. I remember too well how unfair the pay was as recent as the 70s when I was a single Mom. Forget equal pay... Listen to Lilly Ledbetter. That is a promise made and kept by President Obama and Romney will not respond to how he would handle this act. If a man is so heartless that he straps the family pet on the roof of the car, do you really think he cares about a woman and equal pay?
I know you want The Lilly Ledbetter law for yourself, your kids and grandkids. I know you do. We can forget about Affirmative Action, reproductive rights, equal pay, civil rights, but we can count on being oppressed by the richest of the rich and our sons and grandsons joining to fight in endless wars to come home to less benefits than their grandfather's. Forget
Social security because that will be a voucher program that can be lost in the Wall street ponzi schemes just like we lost home, cars and 401 K's. There is a difference in
this election but we must get out the vote and we must make sure people get to the
polls. We must weather the storm brewing from the seas and vote as early as possible.
The women of America and the men and others who really care about the females must vote to protect their future. They must help stop the war waging on women.
Don't you see? We have already been here.
The vote is our future. We can sit home and be mad at the president or think our vote won't count which could sentence our own people to a world controlled by others for their own basic rights. Do you really want to go backwards? Many of you would die because you have no clue how dark that hole is.
There is legislation in Georgia of personhood, right now awaiting, to imprison women if they miscarry a child. They could be put on trial to determine if the loss of the fetus was due to any fault of her own.
http://www.foxnews.com/...
No it has not made it out of committe but one day it will, with more and more extremists taking office especially if the winger is sitting on 1600 Pa. Avenue.
Just think, one day , your little girl could face prison from simply falling down.
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We have a long way to go but this backwards turn is definately the wrong direction.
Will you please vote and vote early? I have three young ladies in my family. Two of child bearing age. I have grandchildren and a 7 year old daughter. Please, Please, this is more than an election to me.. It is my children and your children's future.
I don't want all the things that I have taught them about school and career, and equality and family to be a lie and burden brought on them by the likes of zealots and extremists such as Romney / Ryan and the down republican ticket.
VOTE....