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An Insane Defense to Roe v. Wade Draft Pains My Ears, Brain, and Heart

You’ll be shocked at what women are saying.

I used to have the patience to listen as people shouted from soapboxes.

I used to, that is, until the draft to overturn Roe v. Wade surfaced and brought a wave of cockamamie supporters of it to devalue women, their brains, and bodies.

Even if a speaker’s passion outweighed the purported facts they spouted, accompanied by a fist pumped up in the air, my curiosity wouldn’t wane. Maybe they’d pepper some tidbits of use. They will have my attention until they lose it with their outright stupidity.

I enjoy a dialogue, a difference of opinion, that has teeth to grab my attention. What I currently hear are lips flapping. A woman’s right to choose her physical care never belonged in politics, but it’s there. Now, men at the decision-making helm want to undo it.

Women are okay with that?

There are women willing to hand their rights over to be dictated to by those who should have no say. They promote the concept of the Roe v. Wade reversal by sneering inaccuracies.

Known and extreme conservative women are making a leap, with an odd association, in an attempt to garner others’ favor for passing the Roe v. Wade draft by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). An indefensible move to oppress women has caused a bizarre dust-up of ill-founded reasoning to defend it.

I am embarrassed for my sisters.

They make me scared for all women, too.

Just how many are there?

What meme am I seeing on social media, again and again, from our sisters?

Absurdity.

Polarizing and sarcastic attacks on political party ideologies:

What?

My knee-jerk reaction, after picking my jaw up off the ground, is to ask how Covid vaccinations and a woman’s right to choose became synonymous.

Is pregnancy contagious? No.

Do men have concerns about being impregnated? No.

Is the Covid virus contagious to all people with deadly consequences? Yes.

End of story.

COVID Vaccinations

Vaccinations were supplied to all people, not exclusive to one gender. Their purpose was clear, necessary, and for public safety.

Those in the intelligent world collectively decided that our only chance at saving lives was to help eradicate a deadly virus. A near-impossible goal, but lives have been saved due to vaccinations. Yes, masks became mandatory in venues and vaccination cards were required at large gatherings where transmission of potential death was heightened.

You could choose to stay home.

To say that we didn’t have a choice to be vaccinated so we relinquish our voice, in that we want a choice for our bodies, smacks of fear and lunacy. Desperation for a justification emerges in manufactured correlations.

The choice of vaccination exists. I know far too many people who have stood firm against being vaxxed and laugh at the prospect of the virus as real, to this day.

They made their choice, men and women alike.

To equate the Roe v. Wade draft with vaccinations is absurd.

Yes, mashed potatoes and chocolate ice cream are both foods, but worlds apart.

Roe v. Wade

Roe v. Wade was never about all people but only one gender who is continually caught in the crosshairs, women. We cannot consciously dismantle our fundamental right to protect all women.

Our choice is our protection.

Regardless of your stance regarding the termination of a pregnancy, a woman’s right to make decisions about her body belongs to her.

Sisters need to pull together or these offensive men will continue to strip our rights, out of fear. And they must be scared. Today’s woman is smart with a voice. We can bear children if we choose and run a boardroom. Men can only do one of those two things. Egos have bullied their way in to run the show instead of logic.

We have a leg up and they scramble.

The political arena is their best shot at putting us back in our places.

It’s no one’s job or station in life to tell another what they can and can’t do with their bodies. I dare not judge another woman’s choice on if she wants to, or not, maintain her pregnancy. The same for a man who chooses to have a vasectomy ~ his body, his choice.

A woman can seek guidance wherever she is comfortable and I highly doubt she’s going to a politician for advice.

Why would women promote a proposal that diminishes their role in society?

Why?

• Are they afraid to come out from under the ruling men’s thumbs?
• Are they afraid of political party recriminations or sanctions?
• Are they afraid of ruining all of their hard work to climb the success ladder and feel obligated to stay with the pack mentality?

What degree are they willing to go to justify the annihilation of women’s rights?

Next year, when the draft is leaked about overturning a woman’s right to vote, will the same women be back on their soapboxes with their fists pumping to support the men in power? Rest assured, when that happens, women will be the first to be voted right out of office. They can kiss any political standing goodbye.

Women either support our rights, theirs, our daughters, and their daughters’ daughters, or they don’t. Her choice there, too.

Some may be willing to cower and take direction from political leaders for the care of their own bodies, but I’m not.

Let’s not muddy the waters and broadcast that a similarity exists between Covid vaccinations and a woman’s right to choose what happens to her body. This is illogical and asinine.

Don’t Give Our Choice Away

May the masses have the intelligence to squash this lame attempt to justify the stripping away of our rights. The rights of their sisters, themselves, their daughters, and especially our lower economic population, hang precariously.

Because we know, that if you have the money, you have the means to circumvent a ruling. There exists no even playing field. Though approval of the draft would affect the future of all women, the economic classes will suffer differently. Tragically.

I chose to get the vaccination to help contain the spread of a deadly virus. I hated wearing the mask, but I supported containing the virus.

I chose to do that.

Some women may want to be the proverbial barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen woman. Others may choose to follow the covenants and teachings of their religion. Some may want to remain childless. The theme is constant throughout.

Choice.

Your desire is yours and mine is mine. Imagine being told you have to do what the government directs you to do, by law, to your body regardless of your best interest.

What is your choice?

Pregnancy is not contagious.

Pro-Choice is not pro-abortion.

In the absence of common sense, conservative women are spouting men’s narratives as if they are factual.

Stop.

Don’t compare vaccinations to Roe v. Wade to state your case in this glaringly uneducated manner.

Women are just as entitled to a voice as the men who want to shove us underground. We are not second-class, we are not subservient, and we must maintain the integrity of making our own decisions ~ by ourselves and for ourselves.

But, that’s your choice, of course.

And you like that, right?

So do I, my friend, so do I.

Life should be a continual journey of learning. Be open to new information and factor it in accordingly. We can’t just rest on what we were once told as needing to remain the only option. There’s always more, so much more.

Women are strong against all odds. Be a hero; be a small woman who makes a large splash and watch the ripples reach far and wide. You can see Elaine’s impact in this story:

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