This is not really a story but a short commentary on the continuing hypocrisy of the Republican party and antivaxxers, around the issue of “freedom” to do what they want with their bodies to have a vaccination or not— and some are refusing just because— It’s Biden, and because of distrust of science, medical fact, and…. how that contrasts to abortion rights.
On the other side, women want the rights to choose when to have a child or not, and I stand with this right especially as a man, since I don’t have a uterus, but have all girls in my family, and I want them to be unhindered in health/family planning choices.
Yet these same Antivaxx/Trumpistas/Family Values people are the ones telling women what not to do or what to do about their bodies and denying medical care to those who need it for an abortion or post birth care and support. This is a war on educational freedom, economic freedom, and freedom of TIME to choose one’s path without an unwanted pregnancy.
And I would like to remind all the anti-abortion folks that EVERY unwanted pregnancy has a man behind it. It does not lead me to believe that the ultimate choice for having a child should rest on the shoulders of men in government. This is a woman’s issue and personal choice, often for the better of society and self.
The difference here is that having a child or not having a child does not kill anyone around the woman. The child is not lethal.
The Republican party looks more and more like a fascist death cult. I continue to wonder why “Governors” DeSantis and Abbot have not been arrested for dereliction of duty and mass killing of their own state residents by resisting science and proper Covid responses.
Having a vaccination or not having a vaccination means very literally life or death to those around the infected or anti-vaccinated. Getting a vaccination is a social good and necessity for everyone, whereas a pregnancy is a much more personal matter and not lethal to the general population.
Looking at the right-voting population and the language we are seeing from them, it helps me to see us as a single person, with that person’s mind as our collective consciousness; it is at this time that our deepest dark shadows again and more strongly, are being elevated into the public light for discussion, along with war, climate change and voter suppression.
The Republican right and QAnons represent that segment of our population, and our minds, that we know and have discovered can have disastrous effects on our fellow citizens, and IMO act like a rapist caught in the act, and trying to explain it away, just move on, it’s not what it looks like, and But what about Hillary? Distraction, delay, run the clock out, project, lie, cheat, deliberately avoid accountability. It looks like they know they do not have anything left viable to stand on and that power alone matters, while the Democrats (sans Manchin and Sinema types) want nothing more than to heal the country and right the wrongs and stop the climate slaughter that may well be coming.
I would love to see an expanded discussion of the shrillness of the antivaxx population/republican deniers and how shallow it rings when they and some of the Supreme Court now, threaten to take away a woman’s right to Constitutionally granted rights to self sovereignty and self-health care. Granted the stench will be unbearable.
I don’t think I am the right person for this kind of article but I cannot help but see the irony in what the right is saying to the rest of us and cannot see it when our collective car is screaming straight for a cliff.