{"id":3502,"date":"2024-05-04T08:34:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2024-05-28T18:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T18:09:28","slug":"the-majority-are-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2024\/05\/04\/the-majority-are-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The majority are with you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_20240503_195232778-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_20240503_195232778-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3503\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>The majority are with you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The majority are with you, she told me<br \/>\nmaybe they\u2019re facts, but in that moment<br \/>\nall I feel is the pain and aggressive harm<br \/>\nof those who tell me what I should do<br \/>\nor how I am not a good person <\/p>\n<p>elections have consequences, but the uninformed<br \/>\ncontinue to vote against their best interest<br \/>\nand the interests of others<br \/>\nthey want to outlaw agency, reintroduce involuntary servitude<br \/>\n\u201cCome, travel to the dark ages of back alleys and horrific death\u201d they say<br \/>\nwith nary a care about the setup of a police state for women<\/p>\n<p>if she dies, she dies<br \/>\ncallous, cold, calculating<br \/>\nwomen are raped<br \/>\nwomen get sick<br \/>\nfetuses die<br \/>\nectopic pregnancy kills women<br \/>\nmiscarriages are not uncommon<br \/>\nthey are purposely killing us<br \/>\nand they will stand and watch as<br \/>\nwomen die in concrete parking lots<\/p>\n<p>pro-life is forced birth<br \/>\nthere is no freedom to choose in a world<br \/>\nwhere government and religion make your decisions<br \/>\nand you are nothing more than a brood mare for the state<br \/>\nin a society of reproductive slavery and human rights violations<\/p>\n<p>six weeks is still a 0-week ban<br \/>\nthe majority do not know that soon<br \/>\nThe orange man wants to monitor your pregnancy, make sure you don\u2019t get an abortion<\/p>\n<p>would you like a side of \u201crape and incest exception\u201d with that monitoring<br \/>\na requirement to bring evidence of an attack<br \/>\nwhere\u2019s your police report?<br \/>\nprove it happened<br \/>\nthey don\u2019t want to hear your excuses<br \/>\npapers, please<br \/>\ndescribe in detail the violation<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s a hurdle which cannot be overcome<br \/>\na child raped, pregnant<br \/>\nno memory of date and time<br \/>\nespecially ongoing trauma<br \/>\nthey still want their documentation<br \/>\nbecause<br \/>\nit was never about the children<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s about putting women in their place<br \/>\nit\u2019s about telling women they are evil<br \/>\nit\u2019s about lies still told 100 years later<br \/>\nit\u2019s about subjugation<\/p>\n<p>She told me the majority are with me<br \/>\nI do not feel it<br \/>\nit may be so, but the words in print every day<br \/>\ntell me I don\u2019t matter<br \/>\nand I was wrong<br \/>\neven though I did what was best for me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18,305,329,402],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-abortion","tag-rape","tag-sexual-assault","tag-women"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}