Weekend Process Notes
Nothing is More Indicative of a Democracy than a Woman’s Right to Reproductive Health Care
Comments from Joe on Morning Joe seem to suggest that Joe is concerned people don’t really care about threats to Madisonian democracy. Upon Michael Steele’s response — he mentioned the astounding number of women registering to vote. Steele’s comment seemed to be brushed aside. Joe sounds pompous, narrow. Or maybe he’s sounding just absurd.
There is nothing, but nothing, more indicative of democracy than a woman’s right to reproductive health care — meaning the right to make health care decisions privately with her physician, including the right to an abortion if she is not able or ready to safely give birth to a child, and raise the child to adulthood.
What does it mean if we end up with power in the hands of the extreme edge of the “pro-life,” “anti-abortion” crowd? What does it really mean to force all women of childbearing age to be pregnant much of the time, while tending to one infant after the other?
It means women would no longer be a part of the workforce, and women would no longer hold congressional seats. A woman running for President? Come on, get serious. The disasters we’re facing today are the result of too few women in positions of power. The environmental crisis now at our doorstep has been put there by the long history of male supremacy.
Male supremacy is not a normal system of economic, political or social organization. It may have been ordinary through much of human history, but it is certainly not normal. It is a distortion of the natural world, and it has led to multiple distorted political systems.
The most serious policy of the “maga-republican” party is to lock women out of political power, while misogynous men finally finish the job of destroying life on our planet.
Joe, there is nothing more indicative of democracy, than a woman’s right to reproductive health care.
