Watching Rachel Maddow inform me of Virginia's law to force women to be subjected to an evasive and horrible sounding procedure that their doctors will also be forced to perform on them, I wondered what the response to this would be in November.
The apparent determination of the republican base to have a truly conservative nominee in November.I hope they do. I hope its Santorum (don't Google him, gross).
I think think it would be a turning point in this country's women's history.
A chance for women to permanently drive a steak through the heart of this regressive bullshit. How many steps backward are conservatives going to take before women re-soundly fucking put a smack down on this oppressive shit.
Even women of the South, Midwest, the "heartland" who have conservative views have to recoil at the thought of this De-humanizing treatment. I hope they will go to the polls in Nov. and not vote the way their small minded husbands or fathers think they should vote.They vote for Obama, and every other Democrat on the ballot. For themselves, for their daughters, for their own dignity.
Too many women have lived, struggled and died in this country, along with the founding fathers and every other man.
Some garnered notability, other were anonymous, all contributed to the creation, growth, and transformation of this country.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York. It was also the second deadliest disaster in New York City until the destruction of the World Trade Center 90 years later.
129 women dead.
Being a Union person I think about that event, etched in my memory after an episode of 'American Experience'.
One of many, many moments of our time where women have sacrificed, taken part in, and brought about the continuing transformation of this country to the great beacon of freedom and opportunity it is today.
How long would children have worked in the mills of my hometown of Lowell, Mass., risking great bodily injury,before the wives and daughters of the mill owners, convinced, and shamed there husbands into treating them more humanely, and help changed labor laws.Hopefully the Southern, Midwestern women can do the same to their men.
How long before the the right wing hears the polling roar of women in this country who want them to know that they know nothing of showing true respect of their fellow female Americans.
In ten years my girl ill be 23, and hopefully she will live in a country where this shit is a thing of the past like segregation.
Hopefully, obviously the battle still wages.