We Are Not Cows

I don’t even like what humans do to cows.

I eat less and less meat, and I thrive on meat. I am one of those people. I am not a vegetarian easily, but when I look into a cow’s eyes, it is evident that these beings have souls.

I stopped eating pigs a while ago.

In any case, the respect I wish to extend to animals is something my country of origin is not currently extending to me.

I was in mid-flight when Roe V Wade was overturned. On my way to visit my family in England, I entered the airport to see the silent banner across the bottom of the television, “Roe V Wade overturned.”

All day I have noticed young women in the airport. Carefree, unaware about what is coming their way. Even the young white women don’t get it. They have never lived in a land that made it impossible for them to get a safe, relatively inexpensive abortion. They have not resorted to raising a child they did not want, to knitting needles, to the shame of believing if they had just abstained, all would be well. They do not know their bodies are the battlefield. They are on the edge of being penalized for being female and sexual. They are so horribly vulnerable.

I told a friend my age, “It is most likely those of us who lived when abortion was illegal that understand what is happening.” We remember. When a woman could not be sexual for fear of losing the respect of peers, her college education, her parent’s approval, and her economic future, she had to set the sexual limits on herself and her partner. She couldn’t “lead him on.” After all, sex was her fault, her responsibility. The boy or man had no responsibility. Evidently, he still doesn’t.

If there is no exception for rape or incest or life if the mother, no man has any responsibility or consequence. The biological father will not be paying any bills. The man who rapes simply moves on to the next victim. The girl whose uncle sexually abuses her was led on, and finally, the woman who will die due to pregnancy is less valuable than a cluster of cells that have no life without her. Is the contempt for women not clear in this?

Several of the men on the court that decided this lied. They lied about their respect for established precedent, which is just a part of this. Two of the justices deciding to…

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