Women are not Xerox Machines

We must keep control over our Reproductive Rights.


Ladies, hold on to your uteruses (uteri?) as we are getting very close to losing the right to decide what we want to do with this specific organ.

(I know, it is located inside our own body, but for some reason, that just doesn’t count.)

Roe vs. Wade could be overturned if Bush pushes through two extreme, conservative, anti-choice justices (men) to fill the Supreme Court vacancies.

John Roberts who’s up for the top job appears to be as innocent as an ingénue, but don’t be misguided by his soft voice and liquidy eyes. He’s a staunch conservative and has been for decades. At age 50, he can hold his top spot as Chief Justice for many years, maybe as many years as he is old.

His reputation for being intelligent is widely known; his past judicial history is meager. He’s been groomed for the Supreme Court since the Reagan days and has been following directions on how to make it to the top court by having so little written opinion to peruse or dissect that there is little to debate or discuss.

Roberts would not be where he is today if he openly opposed any single view held by the current president. Just look to the prez because there’s one thing we know about this administration: no one will be placed in any position of power who challenges the prez’s beliefs or mythology.

In the early 60s birth control was against the law, even for married women. A woman’s “punishment” for having sex was the possibility of pregnancy. Illegal abortions were always readily available to the rich, but the poor had to deal with back room operations performed by people who weren’t competent enough to slice a pot roast, never mind scrape a uterus.

I would hate to see American women returned to back rooms where unsanitary conditions and incompetent “doctors” are their only choice in order to maintain control over their own bodies and own lives.

Women will never be equals if there are special laws that control their internal organs. It is our bodies and our right to choose and no government entity should ever threaten, cajole or alter our decision whether they like our decision or not.

When faced with pregnancy or preventing pregnancy, no one person, male or female, no group of people have-- the right to play god and decide a universal policy for all women.

I sincerely hope that whoever is placed on the Supreme Court will leave Roe vs. Wade as is and not pander to extremists who want to make their opinions the law of the land.

Now me and my uterus are going downstairs for a cup of coffee.