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The U.S. Supreme Court Gave Women’s Equality — the Finger
Time to give it right back with perpetual struggle
“Women will run the 21st century. . . . This is going to be the women’s century and young people are going to be its leaders.” — Bella Abzug (1997)
The U.S. Supreme Court always rotates back to the norm of America’s original unequal society rooted in white male supremacy. It is not just racial inequality built into the system but sexual inequality. The oppression and subjugation of the rights of women.
Women are central to maintaining that dynamic and the abortion decision last week cuts to the heart of this nasty history. The rulings was consistent ideologically: women belong to men. What men say goes. Men own them and their bodies.
We have to get back the equality of women. This is the issue that never was discussed or has been dealt with in this society. The sexual equality of women. Even Roe v. Wade is not about sexual equality for women.
If a woman wants to have a child, carry a baby to term, she should be able to do that. If a woman gets pregnant, and does not want to carry the pregnancy to term, she should have that choice as well. Let the woman and the…
