Things are getting pretty damn dark – Photo: L. Weikel
Just Can’t Even
I just can’t even. That’s a weird sentence, isn’t it? And yet I bet all of you knew not only exactly what I meant – and also why I said it.
Our country is careening toward the cliff of theocracy. And we worried about the Taliban?
If anyone had even the slightest doubt recently about where our country is headed – led by a minority of well-organized fanatics – let the fog be lifted from their eyes now. Of course, I’m speaking of the leaked first-draft opinion of the Supreme Court that takes a sledgehammer to Roe vs. Wade, and which very well may become the ‘law of the land’ in June.
And yet, just what does ‘law of the land’ even mean, if this disgusting opinion that essentially relegates women to chattel in the eyes of our government takes effect? It means the ‘law of the land’ means nothing. It means no one can rely on Constitutional rights as determined by the highest court in the land beyond the next lifetime appointment by a president not even elected by a majority of Americans.
Constitutional Rights Stripped
There are so many things falling asunder in our country at the moment, it’s hard to even keep track. Everywhere we look, the tenets we were raised to believe were the hallmarks of our great nation, the so-called Great Experiment that has served as a beacon of democracy and freedom to the world, are being bulldozed. Razed. Demolished in a fever-dream of minority rule that makes a mockery of everything we stand for in the world.
If the concepts propounded in this leaked draft opinion become the rule of law in this country in June, you can rest assured that every other right you have come to believe is as fundamental to your life as breathing air will also be ripe for being ripped out from under you.
I’m talking the right to use contraception in the privacy of your own home.
The right to marry a person of another race.
The right to marry a person of the same gender.
And throughout all of this, the right to vote.
Imagine
Imagine, my dear male readers, if the government decides to punish you for spreading your sperm in any other manner besides ejaculating into a female. And I’m talking even when you’re all by yourself. You know: in the privacy of your own home.
No; I didn’t think you could imagine that. None of us should have to imagine it as an example to try to bring home the enormity of this potential decision. And yet, we could even take this analogy further and not be guilty of hyperbole. Women will die.
Our country is facing some very dark, dire days. I hope it’s not too late to save us all.
(T+131)
But they will never take away our right to keep our GUNS! (I hope you know I am being faci Facetious)
Yes, of course I know you’re being facetious. And isn’t it ironic that so many supposed ‘pro-life’ people are so ready to kill those who do not agree with them?
Theoracy feels like a poke in the eye to me. Of course that’s all packaged in my vocation. There are people of faith, and you know I am among them, who while they do not believe abortion should be the first nor is it always the best choice, it must be a legal choice. The abortion movement that we know today was engaged as long as Roe V Wade has been the “law of the land”, but started as a political rather than a religious issue. And yes there are Christians who “power” the movement today. However I struggle with broad strokes that we use, and I am in this boat as well, which paint someone into a corner that they might not actually believe in. I was accused several years ago of being a Trump supporter because I was a white, Christian, college educated woman living in the suburbs. And you know that’s pretty far from the truth.
We shall “fight on” to assure that women who chose, often women of color who are in precarious financial situations, do indeed have access to safe abortions.
Thanks for letting me get onto my soap box for a minute!
I cannot imagine that you would advocate living in (or WANT to live in) a theocracy either, Jill. The whole point of our country was freedom of religion, which includes freedom to not practice any religion.
I’ve read a couple of fascinating articles (and watched a few analyses) about how cynically the “Right” got buy-in from the Christian fundamental faction in order to ultimately challenge and dismantle racial integration.
Abortion in and of itself should not even be a topic for discussion vis-a-vis the government in 2022. The ultimate fact is that women must have sovereignty over their own bodies. End of discussion. As to the ‘morality’ of their decisions on to how, whether, and/or when to have a child? It’s between a woman and her God, Goddess, or simply herself. Women are either equal to men in the sovereignty of their bodies or they are not.
And there actually is a vehement belief in a potentially extremely violent minority that we ARE (or were always meant to be?) a theocracy. We are rapidly approaching a tipping point.
I was a nursing student and new graduate when women died of sepsis using coat hangers to self-abort– I saw mothers suffer delivering fetuses that could not live. It was like the dark ages–we now will return to???
Unwanted pregnacies– before we were allowed birth control– will we go back to that? Who will take care of these babies born to 14 year olds ??