The Supreme Court Should Simply Declare They Hate Women

The leaked Roe v. Wade draft has been upsetting, indeed

*I suspect all of you don’t read to the end, so here is the link for the National Network of Abortion Funds. *

I looked at an Instagram graphic declaring the news that a leaked Roe v. Wade decision had a majority in favor of overturning the 50-year-long precedent.

Then, I promptly burst into ugly tears, alone in my apartment. Wailing, keening, ugly crying.

It happened 3 more times in 30 minutes.

The visceral reaction I had to the news that broke late yesterday shocked me. I had known this would be a possibility for a while.

I have a lot of privileges in the sphere of womanhood.

Even so, it’s exhausting.

I pay a pink tax on menstrual products while men don’t pay a tax on condoms.

I fight to amplify the voices of survivors of rape, domestic violence, and abuse because I have had to fight to be believed as a survivor myself.

I fight for equal pay.

I fight for intersectional feminism.

I fight for the rights of my trans sisters to live as their authentic selves.

A lot of feminists fight for these rights, rights that would bring women closer to equality with men.

I win when we all win. I lose when we all lose. We all fight together.

The decision of whether or not to bear a child is central to a women’s life, well-being, and dignity. When the government controls the decision for her, she is being treated as less than a full human responsible for her own choices.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Less than a full human.

Reading about Roe v. Wade this morning, I felt hated, heartbroken and inferior.

Justice Alito referred to the original ruling as unconstitutional several times and said the original ruling has had “damaging consequences.”

Stating that a federal ruling that has been upheld for 50 years in favor of women having safe abortions has had “damaging consequences” gives me the impression that Justice Alito has given no thought to the rights of women.

No thought to the fact we deserve bodily autonomy and sovereignty over our own bodies.

The idea that my state government may decide in a few months whether or not I can obtain access to abortion is dehumanizing. No one should be able to lay claim to what happens to my body but me.

If these “damaging consequences” are the babies that have not been born in the past 50 years, the implication is that the blame lies with the women that have chosen not to carry their pregnancies to term.

I hear that you blame women for a choice that was never yours to make.

I hear that you want a say in what we do with our bodies. I hear that you value the life of an unborn child- the easiest thing to advocate for because it has no voice yet- over the life of a mother.

I hear that you are taking away the one thing women can point to and say, hey, we have that. We aren’t listened to when we say we were raped. We aren’t paid as much as our male colleagues. We put up with sexism in all walks of life.

At least we have Roe v. Wade.

Now, that may be gone too.

Women get abortions for a number of reasons. They don’t want to bring a child that is not wanted into the world. They aren’t financially ready. They were raped.

They have a chronic illness.

If I accidentally got pregnant right now and was forced to carry a baby to term, either my baby would likely be born with mental deficits because I would have stayed on my anti-convulsant, or I would go off my anti-convulsant and the baby and/or I would most likely die due to seizures.

All in the name of saving lives.

No woman should ever have to explain her reason for an abortion.

Here we are, justifying ourselves. Fighting for our right to bodily autonomy.

Tell me when it ends. I’m tired.

Yet, I’ll keep fighting. In spite of a lack of fight from the Democratic party around abortion. In spite of apathy from others.

For every person that doesn’t care or is anti-abortion, there are two more that are fighting this fight, to paraphrase something a friend reminded me of today.

My future children will not live in a world where they cannot have access to abortions.

Not on my watch.

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