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Women's Rights - when in 2022 the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

“I know.

You’re angry. You should be.

You’re scared. You should be.

This is awful.

It’s horrifying.

It’s deeply depressing.

Rage.

Scream.

Mourn the tragedy we know is coming.

But remember this: what we are about to experience is the world our grandmothers and great-grandmothers lived in.

This is what they fought against.

Remember that they won.

Even if the victory was temporary, they still won.

We can win too.

Prepare yourself.

Finish your mourning and get back to the fight.

Yes, it’s awful that we have to have this same fight.

It’s frustrating.

It’s heartbreaking.

But now is not the time to surrender to despair.

Now the work begins.”

~ roaaoife

Can we finally get some level headed representation in our government, instead of the sad fiasco we're living with again and again.

Standing on the side of love...

"A woman is not a basket you place your buns in to keep them warm. Not a brood hen you can slip duck eggs under.

Not the purse holding the coins of your

descendants till you spend them in wars.

Not a bank where your genes gather interest

and interesting mutations in the tainted rain, any more than you are.

You plant corn and you harvest it to eat or sell.

You put the lamb in the pasture to fatten and haul it in to butcher for chops.

You slice the mountain in two for a road and gouge the high plains for coal and the waters run muddy for miles and years.

Fish die but you do not call them yours unless you wished to eat them.

Now you legislate mineral rights in a woman.

You lay claim to her pastures for grazing,

fields for growing babies like iceberg lettuce.

You value children so dearly that none ever go hungry, none weep with no one to tend them when mothers work, none lack fresh fruit, none chew lead or cough to death and your orphanages are empty. Every noon the best restaurants serve poor children steaks.

At this moment at nine o'clock a partera

is performing a table top abortion on an

unwed mother in Texas who can’t get

Medicaid any longer. In five days she will die

of tetanus and her little daughter will cry

and be taken away.

Next door a husband and wife are sticking pins in the son they did not want. They will explain for hours how wicked he is, how he wants discipline.

We are all born of woman, in the rose

of the womb we suckled our mother’s blood

and every baby born has a right to love

like a seedling to sun.

Every baby born unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come due in twenty years with interest, an anger that must find a target, a pain that will beget pain.

A decade downstream a child screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched, a firing squad is summoned, a button is pushed and the world burns.

I will choose what enters me, what becomes of my flesh.

Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking.

You may not use me as your factory.

Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind.

This is my body. If I give it to you I want it back.

My life is a non-negotiable demand."

~ Marge Piercy, 'Right to Life'

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I do not accept the illusion

The dogma or drama

That a man-made rule holds power over this body

I am governed by the earth and the stars

This body is sacred

The truth of my being is untouched

Unwavering

I am a sovereign being of God/Goddess/Creation

With a wave of my hand, your false program crumbles

Truth is ignited by my attention and focus

I shall focus on tasks that are worthy of my being

Photo by Carole Daly

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Women have a right to make their own decisions about their bodies. Not legislators. Not a religious group!

Dec. 6 was the birth anniversary of Congresswoman Patsy Mink, who authored the Title IX Amendment which opened many opportunities in education to young women athletes. See my blog Open Yesterday's Pages for more information.

NOTE: A couple of days ago I posted a lovely goddess on a throne, at Catal Huyeck (Çatalhöyük in southern Anatolia). Here's another informative article about that dig from "Archaeology Magazine"...how it's considered a culture with a matriarchal society. A Feminine Touch

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