I had no idea it was 1973 all over again!
Has it not been passed into US law that a woman has the right to choose? When Mills lamented in 1869 about the subjection of women, little did I think that to-date society would still act in the same way. It gives me great pain to see that our men are actually taking us back to 1800s. What is the difference with the laws then and now? Did women not win rightfully, and did US Congress not recognize a woman’s right to choose after it came down from the highest court in the land? And why are we debating abortion in the first place? What a shame! That a Democratically controlled Congress should even consider putting into law, the legal subjection of women in this 21st century. What the House did on Saturday, and what I now hear that some members of the Senate are proposing against women’s heath is appalling, if not downright abomination! They wish to put into law that which will put women down, will women 10 steps back, and that which Mills called “… a legal subjection of women…” with total disregard of women’s input as if we don’t even exist! I hear these Senators and Representatives say that women will have to purchase a separate healthcare insurance for abortion! This is ridiculous! And as Mills lamented then, and I second him today, the act of legally stopping a woman from choosing for herself is a major hindrance to human development and progress. By allowing this so called Stupak Amendment, the society will have admitted to some unmentioned laws… ‘That some animals are more equal than others, admitting power and privilege on the one side’, and subjecting the other side to disability and incapacity. This is plainly wrong. Needless to mention, that the same women that you now trample on, are the same ones that brought you to power and prominence. How could you allow the Republican Party to manipulate your brains? Can’t you just be normal representatives who act consciously and for once putting your constituents first before politics?
I hear that in Congress it’s about arm-twisting and deal-cutting, but in my view, some deals are better left uncut. You my dear men, are not going to cut deals at the expense of women’s health. This is a battle that I am afraid you are going to lose. What was the Hyde Amendment all about then? Why is it that every time somebody has to loose in this society it has to be a woman? Do we not live in a democracy? Are both sees not entitled to the same human rights? Health rights?
