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Jun. 24th, 2022 01:25 pmBecause that's where we're headed. Rapidly.
One of the anti-Roe protesters photographed outside the Court was holding a sign reading "Human rights begin in the womb."
And now they end when you have a womb.
Women below menopause, girls above puberty: you're beasts of burden now.
It's on the same principle that now you have the right to carry a gun (unless you're black, probably) but you don't have the right not to be randomly shot. (Or not to be on hair-trigger alert all the time: that's not my idea of freedom.)
Or the people who want the right to breathe covid virus on other people, but not to give the other people the right not to have covid breathed on them.
For a few decades, we came close to having a free country. We've lost it now.
Megan Rapinoe wants men to stand up and say something. I've said something.
One of the anti-Roe protesters photographed outside the Court was holding a sign reading "Human rights begin in the womb."
And now they end when you have a womb.
Women below menopause, girls above puberty: you're beasts of burden now.
It's on the same principle that now you have the right to carry a gun (unless you're black, probably) but you don't have the right not to be randomly shot. (Or not to be on hair-trigger alert all the time: that's not my idea of freedom.)
Or the people who want the right to breathe covid virus on other people, but not to give the other people the right not to have covid breathed on them.
For a few decades, we came close to having a free country. We've lost it now.
Megan Rapinoe wants men to stand up and say something. I've said something.
