As I scanned the Huffington post as I do most every day, I came across a blog - about fuel efficiency for cars and trucks that caught my eye and in conjuction with an earlier one I had read on Daily Kos about the abortion legislation gave me a ha moment.... more below - please read
Laurie David's post "Green is the New Red, White, and Blue"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
questions why our government does not get involved in regulating fuel economy standards.....
she writes:
"Here's another suggestion: why doesn't the federal government, in an act of leadership, demand that every vehicle purchased by the U.S. government must get over 30 mpg (unless a lower mpg vehicle is required for a specific task)? Boom: guaranteed business for Detroit's newly retooled factories and the chance to start making cars Americans actually want (for the first time since it began publishing, Consumer Reports awarded all of its Top Ten best new car picks to Japanese brands)."
Ah hah moment - How ironic is it that these people feel absolutely comfortable legislating what half the population can do with their bodies but when its suggested that the auto industry and other industries should be regulated - all of a sudden its Oh no - we can't interfere with that - free market economy - that's what people want etc. even it what corporations do -results in many more deaths of actual fully developed people and in people to come via birth defects caused by their misbehavior.
So cliff notes - Women's bodies and their lives can be regulated by the state --according to these people can be regulated but corporations can't becuase that would interfere with "free market enconomy"
Perhaps Women should incorporate - then perhaps our right to belong to ourselves will be respected as it seems the only thing respected by this right wing cabal is Coroporations.
Shall we incorporate to presereve our rights - or do we reclaim the preminence of the persons rights trumping the rights of corporations and remember that when womens status and rights suffer so does the whole human family.
What do you think ?