The Peril of Feminine Autonomy

Reversing Roe v. Wade is more about limiting female autonomy, liberty, equality and freedom—than access to safe and private healthcare. 

The question should always be: 

“If you are going to do this to women, why are you not imposing and enforcing the same laws on men’s bodies?”

This is the definition of anti-pro-life. 

To forcefully imprison a woman without holding a man responsible too. 

Women do not get pregnant alone, but continue to bare the majority responsibility of care, financial impact, and burden of taking care of kids—especially low-income and minority women. 

As a collective, particularly in the West we have moved towards toxic individualism meaning “if it doesn’t effect me directly, I don’t care.” 

The root cause of how we got here is because we have stopped looking around at the most vulnerable in our communities who need us to stick up for them and fight their cause on their behalf—because we should care. But most people do not. 

As a collectively we are blissfully asleep at the wheel of our shared humanity. 

This individualistic view has been leveraged by a minority of extremist-right-leaning law makers who do not represent the majority view of this country—and who are essentially anti-women. 

The long term economic impact of this decision on our country as a whole will leave us in a fiscally precarious place to support this population growth, but most importantly as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expressed, “this will set women back a decade.”

And we are already SEVERAL decades behind men on all societal aspects. 

It’s hard for me to fathom complacency and lack of engagement on this issue—and believe me I understand how aligned the messaging is on the extreme right and most right leaning people are one-issue voters. 

But imagine that if your autonomy was a stake—indefinitely. 

Which means your daughter’s, sisters, aunts, and granddaughter’s is too. 

Could you stand by? Are you willing to stay silent? 

Or is there room for you to see this as more than a binary | black & white issue and imagine a world where women also lose the right to vote, the right to own property, the right to speak freely, as I am doing here now? 

How much fear would have to be evoked until we acted?

What are you willing to part with—in your own autonomy? 

It seems that fear is the only motivator in elections and societal changes anymore.  Which is lazy and lacks respecting the intelligence of our humanity. 

This country NOT once, since it’s founding has lived into the it’s right of separation of church and state. If we are going to go backwards, we should start by un-blurring that line first. This is the ultimate root cause to our coming off our constitutional rails. 

Reversing Roe V. Wade is step 1 in the extreme-right playbook—please do not delay in finding internal courage, taking action, having difficult conversations…so that we can pace forward arm in arm towards long term, protected progress for our lineages, but for women who remain vulnerable and without the full rights in this country. 

Register to Vote. 

Educate yourself.  

Elevate the feminine.

Respect the feminine. 

Free the feminine.