At the time of my third pregnancy (my last pregnancy) my custom was to strap my 3 year old son into his bike seat and set out for a ride after his older brother left for school. He would fall asleep on the ride, and I’d return home ready to take on household chores.
That ended.
Those rides ended because of a fetus. My daughter declared I was not to risk myself in any way. I was to take every precaution for her safety and well-being. SHE was in charge now, thank you very much!
The Supreme Court is made up of nine individuals. Six of those individuals are men.
Five of those men and one woman have an agenda that does not include EMPATHY, COMPASSION, nor a HOLISTIC VIEW of what it means to be human.
- It’s time the Supreme Court looked like the country it stands in judgment over.
- It’s time the Supreme Court represented every sex, color, and creed of their constituents.
- And it’s time the Supreme Court (as well as lower court judges) did not received lifetime tenures.
If men were forced to tolerate
- a life-form inhabiting their bodies for nine months
- a life-form threatening their health
- a life-form controlling their emotions and lives and economics for many years to come
they might gain some feeling for how childbirth changes a woman’s life.
And the above list says nothing about medical issues eroded away when state legislatures step way out of bounds to control the actions of health care workers.
How many children—out of neglect due to a parent or parents working multiple jobs to support them—turn to guns? This same Supreme Court, in another recent ruling, values guns more than children.
This court, with its partisan politics, did not create itself. We’ve come a long way, women. My mother was born in 1920, the year we gained the right to vote.
One hundred and two years later, it’s time to vote
- for our lives
- for our daughters’ lives
- for our sons’ lives
- and for lives on every spectrum of the sexual scale
Kate Harrington 