What makes you nervous?
—Questioner
Well, dear Questioner, before June 2022 my answer would have been, “very little.” However, once the highest court in our land decided to take away a woman’s right to choose, incurring the ramifications many of us could see coming, I became ‘nervous’ about many political issues I had no reason to consider before.
A conservative Supreme Court has the ability to change our lives in a myriad of ways – especially now that they have jumped off the cliff by taking away a right for the first time in our country’s history.
Immediately following the SCOTUS decision to repeal Roe, I thought about marriage equality & all my LGBTQ+ friends who have gotten married as a result of the Obergefell decision in 2015. If we are honest, the only reason they have not publicly discussed inter-racial marriage is because Justice Thomas is married to a white woman; that came to my mind immediately as my best friend, a black woman, is married to a white man. If they could take down something like Roe v. Wade, which had stood for longer than 50 years, they could take anything.
We have seen it with the arguments over Mifepristone – the far right have zero scruples & will do anything in order to progress their agenda. Please do not think that includes actually being “Pro-Life” as they are merely “Pro-Birth”; once the child is born they are not interested in supporting them at all. Which harkens back to the original point of anxiety, which was the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Unfortunately, it seems we are in a time of fighting for our rights (again) & must continue to do so, which means a constant anxiety or nervousness. It seems as though we must never become complacent, constantly on edge, or the patriarchy will take advantage. Prayerfully, they can feel the rumble as the Blue Wave grows to Roevember…
∞Cecelia
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