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It started out with an unusual pain
Deep inside a place of your body you didn’t even know existed
As if you were an astronaut discovering a hidden planet
or a black hole you could imagine sinking your fingers into.
Don’t worry it’s nothing, they said.
You’re just over-reacting
You’re not the expert on your own need
For self determination
And so it metastasized
Across the varying states
of consciousness and existence
Until it grew completely out of control
It takes over like a cancer only knows how to do
and pretty soon you will ask who will survive
and what will be left of us?
As it spreads and infects each part of the whole.
You’re just a black spot on humanity
And you’re changing the way
We’re able to make a choice
To determine what happens to ourselves.
Sometimes you skip a few doctor’s visits or protests and then you’re just doomed.
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It was Monday when they took out your blood and bone marrow. How could you keep this all to yourself when you could save a life? Besides, they found a potential donor and he is wealthy and ready to go on SpaceX again. On Tuesday, they demanded a kidney. You really only need one to function. You may think the quality of your life is important but this other person is a CEO of a major company. On Wednesday, they took out a lung and on Thursday your liver. Finally, they came for your heart on Friday.
You were a murderer, they said, for walking around with these things inside your body when you could save so many others. Your body is a ward of the state and you no longer have control over it.
Did you really think the lack of body autonomy didn't affect you?
For those on TikTok, I saw this video and I was like yes this here...and remember, we've given a ton of power to corporations in this country and profit over people so the lack of body autonomy is dangerous for everyone who isn't very wealthy. We know who will be left and what will be left of us.
www.tiktok.com/@maryclareclark/video/7113843543856155946?...
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In the United States of America, we've created a situation already where too many people have had to work for a corporation in order to have health care. Even something simple as a broken bone can cost someone thousands of dollars out of pocket in this country. I've personally known colleagues who have literally worked until they dropped dead because, otherwise, they wouldn't be able to afford chemotherapy.
So, when corporations recently stepped up and said they would help pay for their employees to travel out of state for an abortion, the first impulse was to be "grateful that corporations were taking a stand," But, as in the corporations sponsoring the Pride parade, many of these corporations have supported anti-choice legislators. All this leads me to a few points....
1. Corporations won't save us. In most places in the world, profit is valued over people and even in countries outside the US where they have health care for all people, corporations have a very strong pull with the government and policy.
2. We should follow the money in terms of what corporations actually truly support and hold them accountable.
3. When you have to depend on a corporation for body autonomy, this is a very bad situation.
4. There will always be individuals in our country who are artists and do not work for a corporation. These are humans who should be celebrated not punished. If we want creative ideas and individual thought, we need to realize that body autonomy and health care should be provided to all citizens.
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Thanks to my friend Bob for this article link. It's very apt for the darkness that the majority of Americans "led by" a bunch of old white men are facing :
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/alito-leaked-ro...
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The Supreme Court in America has been doing some evil sketchy things these past few days. They've reduced peoples' rights after possible police brutality if they weren't read their Miranda Rights. In the midst of a surge in gun violence across the country they've made it harder to enforce gun safety laws throughout the country and today they may be overturning Roe. In the midst of this, some states have already started the process to ban birth control, specifically at this time IUDs and the morning after pill. The extreme need to control a woman's body and give guns more rights than a woman in my country is terrifying. Meanwhile, the supreme court justices have been granted far greater protections after a couple of protests than Anita Hill or Christine Blasey Ford ever were.
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Updated: I posted this over a couple of years ago initially. There are literally no words that fit my devastation of yesterday's Immunity decision that an American president is above the law and can do anything they want. This mainly affects the irresponsible and reckless man who insisted he could murder someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it. Well, his buddies who have in a single week also made it illegal to be homeless and legal for politicians to accept bribes also destroyed Democracy. Let's also not forget their ruling supporting Bump Stock weapons. My country is insane.
What I wrote initially two years ago:
There is just no way a handful of mainly old white men, some of whom should never have been appointed and have harmed women in their own lives. Other judges cared so little about America they were tied to the Capital Hill Insurrection....and they can't handle protestors on their lawns. Meanwhile, Christine Blasey Ford had to move 4 times because of threats to her life with no protections after she testified about what Brett Kavanaugh did to her. The Senate in my country moved quickly to protect his mysteriously paid off house lawn but they have done nothing to protect human rights. What a waste! We Americans who want progress in this world are still being held hostage by our so called elected leaders and it's no mistake that the first thing this bunch of criminals did is gerrymander and take away voting rights.
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Subject: Abstract wheel of a destructive force.
Medium: Digital Artwork.
Inspiration: Feeling anxious about the recent decision made by the US The Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and what is to come next...
This old, ravaged piece of art of mine from '72 seemed appropriate today, as I contemplate the turn of events from yesterday.
"Hello darkness, my old friend..."
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Not giving anyone ideas. Only a matter of time before we see #Florida & #Texas #jetski or #boating & #guns lovers do it #Taliban style. The US #SupremeCourt is doing their anti #women rights work #meanwhile, starting with #RoeVWade. Newsweek via Magzter Inc.
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In Texas, there's yet another new dangerous law that states anyone who even drives a woman to seek an abortion can be put in prison. Already there, it's almost impossible to have legal abortions because there are so few clinics and you have to have a funeral for your fetus if you go through with it. Our very male and typically very white male lawmakers are slowly chipping at our rights.
Remember, in a couple of states (Arkansas and Oklahoma), men can literally rape a woman and then have a say about whether or not she has an abortion because all women are just "hosts" for the sperm of men.
It was also leaked that Trump wants to make it so that employers don't have to cover any birth control, including the birth control pill. So now, we're really not talking about the sanctity of "life" or any of their absolute lies based on a religion they don't seem to follow in any other context.
I don't understand how they can do this to 50%+ of the population and get away with it. One of my co-workers asked, "Why would they do this to women?" It's a good question. After all, these politicians certainly had mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives.
It's because they want to control us.
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Happy Saturday.
In other news, what a travesty of a Supreme Court ruling here in America. Way to take us back 50 years...
The Handmaid's Tale is supposed to be a cautionary dystopian fiction, not a documentary on the current state of our laws. The fascist Supreme Court in their infinite wisdom seeks to roll back America and turn it into their deluded fever-dreams of Gilead that never should exist. Don't think for one fucking moment these pigs will stop here. Next comes gay marriage and contraception. Don't believe me? Look at the traitor Clarence Thomas's opinion on the matter.
Now is the time to get mad and
rage against this gross injustice. Fuck the Supreme Court, and fuck the fascist GOP and any state that seeks to put the boot of tyranny on the necks of those already oppressed.
JUNE 24, 2022 - Today's Supreme Court decision is illegitimate. No such decision can be legitimate when it tramples on the civil rights of human beings, in this case approximately half of our national population.
Image is from the January 18, 2020 Women's March in Washington DC, USA.
We're really starting to see evidence of men trying to take complete control over womens' bodies...In Arkansas and Oklahoma right now, even a rapist has rights over a conceived child through that act of sadistic violence.
A new Texas law takes this one step farther and encourages Drs to lie to pregnant females regarding when/if their babies will be born with disabilities...the republicans are trying to hide behind the idea that this is for the rights of people with disabilities but it's easy to see when they fund prisons over public schools that they really don't care about kids with disabilities or kids in poverty or minorities at all. They aren't pro life...they are pro death only the long con way.
After all, the GOP's own Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos didn't even know about the federal law protecting individuals with disabilities in education. Their plan is to force women to deliver these children and then offer no support for these women and children. Seems like great family values to me!
The fact of the matter is that making abortion illegal and/or nearly impossible will just mean that mothers and fetuses or newly born babies die dramatic painful deaths. And keeping birth control accessible to everyone is in the public's best interest.
This new Trumpcare abomination calls for defunding Planned Parenthood. I wonder how long before there's a bill out there trying to prevent women from voting.
More about the Texas bill that passed 8-0:
m.dallasvoice.com/senate-committee-votes-doctors-lie-wome...
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Roe v Wade and Moore v Harper. No boys, men or Republicans are allowed.
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Public service announcement on a vehicle in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade by SCOTUS.
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Today is the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Women should have the right to make their own decisions about having children. When they do, everyone is better off. Stand with the ACLU of Illinois, which has been defending this right for the past 35 years - go to www.aclu-il.org/aclu4roe to see how. #aclu4roe #roevwade
JUNE 24, 2022 - Today's Supreme Court decision is illegitimate. No such decision can be legitimate when it tramples on the civil rights of human beings, in this case approximately half of our national population.
Image is from the January 18, 2020 Women's March in Washington DC, USA.
JUNE 24, 2022 - Today's Supreme Court decision is illegitimate. No such decision can be legitimate when it tramples on the civil rights of human beings, in this case approximately half of our national population.
Image is from the January 18, 2020 Women's March in Washington DC, USA.
5/14/22: A huge crowd turned out for today's "Bans Off Our Bodies" rally and march in Pittsburgh, PA. www.wmpgh.org/ #RoeVWade