'If we love our country and if we love the women in our lives, especially our daughters, we will rise up to protect their lives and well-being.'
The impending doom of overturning Roe v Wade has sent shock waves through our society. For those of us old enough to remember when abortion was illegal a heavy sense of dread immediately settled across our backs.
Masses of people were lining Fifth Avenue for Gay Pride. As I watched, the People with Aids Coalition came down the avenue, carrying a banner that stretched across the street. Every man with AIDS walking that day had a woman walking with them, a sister, a mother, a lesbian. Women stepped up to walk with young men who were suffering the illness, so they shouldn't have to walk alone. Great cheers erupted from the crowd as they walked by.
That day, when women walked with the young men who would not be around so much longer, was a watershed moment for me that I will never forget. I went home and told my mother about it, how moving it was, and in her incisive way she said,"So they shouldn't feel alone." This is what women do. They tend to others, they care-take, they step up so a vulnerable, suffering person is not alone.
Children in our country go to bed hungry and wake up hungry daily, the intolerable is tolerated. And be reminded, every day across the globe, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her family every eleven minutes, which comes down to three women a day in the U.S. The intolerable is tolerated. This moment is about intentionally destroying the autonomy, the freedom of millions of women, as if our lives aren't hard enough.Protest has already begun and likely will continue.
McConnell was just re-elected to the Senate. His actions as a senator do not fulfill his oath to support and defend the Constitution, his actions actually undermine the Constitution. The crisis brought about by his political machinations needs to made so hot for him that he is forced to resign. Do the same with Senator Collins. Constituents sent her hangers for her votes to confirm the lying, corrupt nominees Gorsuch and Kavanaugh .
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