My Choice?

# My Choice?

We should not be surprised by the Supreme Court leak of the decision that has been doomed to fail since the Religious Right became organized. As Stephen.Colbert pointed out, each of the last justices appointed by Trump LIED under oath about their position on Roe. And Susan Collins believed them like so many other ignorant folks. Except Collins believes in choice. She’s just gullible.

My religious friends wail about the rights of a fetus. They believe they are saving lives. Whose lives? Women of color who don’t have the means to travel across the country for a clinic? Women who are told about the grave nature of their pregnancy and the pain that both mother and baby will experience after birth? Other friends argue for adoption. Great idea. How many people can drop what they’re doing to experience 9 months of unusual feelings and discomfort and then endure childbirth, which can be fatal? The emotional pain for the mother of a baby being given up is huge and never forgotten. Her body is forever changed. She is forever changed. Adoption is not a fair answer.

BECAUSE IF THIS WERE ABOUT BABIES WE’D HAVE FREE CHILDCARE, FAMILY LEAVE AND FREE MEDICAL CARE WHEN DELIVERING A BABY. But it’s not. It’s about controlling women. It is about CHOICE. How I choose to live my life is no one’s business. Men can choose to walk away from their children. They can do this LEGALLY. Their bodies are never put at risk to deliver the child, their bodies are not changed as a result. Men have no business trying to make this decision for a woman.

It should not be a religious discussion. It should be a long thought out decision make with a doctor. No one else should be in that examination table. That’s called privacy and it is strongly protected by serious governmental control. When that curtain is pulled it is a protection of the patient.

Personally, I don’t want a Supreme Court justice behind the curtain with me. Not do I want the religious right. How I apply my faith to my body is ALSO my business.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT PROTECTING babies, children, or women. It’s an attempt to control them. The risk of a woman giving birth is real. Ive ministered to a family who lost their wife/daughter/sister in childbirth.

Don’t attempt to control contraceptives for me or anyone else. Again, if men could get pregnant, there would be birth control in a drive-thru.

Women of color are disproportionately affected. If you take away the clinic where they get their birth control, women will get pregnant. Pregnancies they weren’t counting on and don’t want. And then what? She has no CHOICE. She is sentenced to a lifetime commitment, her body stretched, torn and scarred.

Infant mortality is the US is worse than almost all other developed countries. Again, this would be different if the issue was actually about babies.

But we saw this coming. Every election cycle, it’s brought up: men trying to control women.

DON’T TRY TO TELL ME WHAT I CAN DO WITH MY OWN BODY. I FIGHT AND VOTE TO PROTECT IT. 70% OF THE AMERICAN POPULATION BELIEVE IN A WOMANS RIGHT TO CHOOSE. OVERTURNING ROE HAS BEEN A SLOW SYSTEMIC MANIPULATION OF VOTERS. The religious right decided this, then took control as the religion of choice to Republicans, teaching them about the role of women in society. This represents 30% of the population, 50% of the political divide and 60% of the Supreme Court. This is wrong.[[