Saturday, July 16, 2022

How would I Roe that boat?

 If I were president after the overturning of Roe V. Wade this is how I would handle it speaking in front of congress. 

"How many in this room are opposed to abortions?  Go ahead, show your hands."
After waiting a moment to see if anyone actually had the fortitude to raise their hands. 
"To quote George Carlin:  'Why is it that the people that are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place.' 
The congress reacts. 

"Did I offend you?  
Did I say something in appropriate?  
If I did, you should probably just resign now. 
Because that:  as politicians, as elected officials, as heads of state, is the job.   
Dealing with the inappropriate and trying to figure out how to make it appropriate.  Or as appropriate as it can be.  
And what was done by overturning Roe V Wade  was inappropriate.  
What was done, was taking the decision out of the hands of someone baring a child.  The decision  on whether or not safety of that child's life or their own life would be appropriate to their personal situation.  
Telling the person gestating that child that they had no rights, that they were not allowed to make a decision for themselves.  Telling medical professionals tasked with assisting in such decisions in as safe and ethically sound ways as such decisions can be made that they have no right to keep those decisions physically safe and ethically sound.  
If we, as a nation, continue to follow that line of reasoning then this government should be taking children from their families at birth and raising them and educating the way that we see fit.  That those children, and their guardians, have no rights or decision making powers in any of it. 
Oh, wait...this government has done that. 
  
There are people in this room that were alive, that were in this room, when "American Indian Boarding Schools" and all that they entail were brought to light.   When they began to be shut down.  It wasn't until very recently that the true magnitude of these schools atrocities were brought to light.  
Are we the nation that stopped the Nazi's?  
Or are we the nation that the Nazi's looked at our Jim Crow laws and said.  "You know, that's a good idea. But it's a little heavy handed.

I live in the land of the free. 
A place where Liberty and Justice are meant for ALL.
Not some, but all.  
And it is time that our laws and institutions truly reflected that.