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Cedar Valley Voices: Abortion ban? What’s next? Loss of voting?
by Robin Cecil · Op-Ed · April 17, 2024
Currently, in the United States of America, 27 states have total or partial bans on abortions.
Which means if an embryo develops into a female, it will actually LOSE rights depending on where it is born. Think about that for a moment.
A few days ago, the Supreme Court of Arizona resurrected a draconian ruling from 1864 giving a fertilized egg more rights than a living, breathing female living in Arizona.
In Alabama, a frozen embryo without a pulse or a heartbeat has a voice while women who live there are now silenced and cannot seek reproductive health care or IVF treatments.
Doctors are being threatened with jail time for merely doing their jobs.
The topic of reproductive rights in America has become a playground for the entertainment and amusement of Republican lawmakers.
Women are being treated like pawns in a chess game of power, control, and dominance. It’s time to speak up: women are under attack in our own country, and it has to stop.
The issue at stake is the right for a woman to choose. The right to decide what is best for her own body, for her own life and for her own family.
This is not a decision to be mandated by puppets in Washington DC or Des Moines or anywhere else in this country.
It should be a decision made between the woman and her medical provider. Period.
Ladies, are you mad enough and fed up enough to let your voices be heard?
There’s no time to sit this one out, we literally may not even be able to vote in future elections if the current level of insanity continues.
We absolutely cannot risk being forced to go back to the 1800’s.
Let’s send a clear message. Call your lawmakers, send them emails, get involved in your local political action groups and most importantly, VOTE EVERY REPUBLICAN OUT OF OFFICE IN NOVEMBER.
Roe, Roe, Roe your vote! Enough is enough!
Robin Cecil lives in West Branch. The Cedar Valley Voices seeks to promote Democratic and progressive ideas of the residents who live in the Cedar County area.
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