What is freedom and why do Americans cherish it so much?
For decades I’ve been mystified about the Republican infatuation about getting into our bedrooms to see who we choose to love, and now into our doctor’s exam rooms to control our status as reproducing humans. I just saw the reason, in a nutshell, today. They don’t want us to have affordable health insurance, just monitor and control our reproduction.
Kevin Roberts, who leads the Heritage Foundation, creator of the horrific Project 2025, has a new book that is too incendiary (pun intended, its original title was about burning it all down) to publish until AFTER the November election.
In this book Mr. Roberts says that having children should not be considered an optional individual choice.
Think about it. This is why MAGA saya that abortion is only the beginning. The purpose is not just to force every currently pregnant person to give birth (and then throw the newborn to the wolves with no social safety net), this is about forcing Americans to have kids, no matter their health or wishes.
No abortion, no fixing of ectopic or otherwise unviable pregnancies, no contraception, no IVF for hopeful parents-to-be. No no-fault divorce. No healthcare even for healthy pregnant women because doctors fear if a miscarriage happens naturally (it does, sometimes), they’ll be at fault and lose their licenses.
Should women be sent home from hospitals to bleed out in parking lots? I don’t know what God you pray to but mine would not approve. A woman is not merely a vessel in which to cultivate other humans. Which is why we also have brains.
If you believe in freedom, think about how you feel about marriage and starting a family and basing your personal decisions on whatever matters to you, not the government. Every family has health issues, economic issues, thoughts about how large a family they would like. These are highly personal decisions and the government shouldn’t be anywhere near them.
If there is a reason besides saving our democracy to vote Democratic down the line this November, let it be your personal freedom to live your life as you wish to live it. Register and VOTE! Dee
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