I put out this diary a couple of days ago on what it was like being a woman in America in the 60's 70's and 80's.
It was Simply :
A life time being told what I can not do
These Diary's are around the new Health CARE reform Bill, and the audacity of the Men writing this bill to assume they can bargain with the right wing and use my Uterus as the Bargaining Chip.
It disgusts me............
I want to start by saying I have never had an abortion, and probably never would. I love children, I am one of 50 Cousins, 213 second cousins, my family is HUGE. IF someone had a child and could not take care of it for whatever reason, we all took each other in. I took in my younger cousin Cindy, who had her first child, then a second. Sigh the second was by my husband. EX husband. Today all of those children are welcomed in my house, my ex even comes here, Cindy, no... Even I am not that good.
When I was 12 or 13 my mother became seriously ill, we went to Aunt Annie's house, then to Roe and Paul. It was not nearly as frightening as it might have been, becuase of Anne and Roe, and I learned to appreciate my aunts and uncles even more.
I digress, the point is, to have a child or NOT have a child is my decision, not a bargaining chip.
You, Senators, congresspersons demoralize my god given right, de humanize a peice of me, my uteris, and take it out hang it on a stick and act as if YOU Actually had the right to tell me what to do with myself.
there are enough of us now that the womne of America NEED to stand up. See this is not really about abortion, it is about those men parting us out and making us worth LESS than they are.
Well My reproductive organs are my own, when we start holding up the penis and balls as bargaining chips in legislation, we will have a semblance of equality.
In Fact to avoid the need to abortions, why not give each teenage boy a vasectomy a reversible one, and then THEY carry the burden, if they get a girl pregnant, they then get the vasectomy for life.