{"id":3975,"date":"2024-06-24T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2024-06-24T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:22:06","slug":"two-years-without-my-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2024\/06\/24\/two-years-without-my-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Two years without my rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fifty minutes after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I sat in my therapist\u2019s office. It was difficult to speak. All the idioms are fitting. I felt like I\u2019d been hit with a ton of bricks. My soul was crushed. <\/p>\n

A good chunk of that session was spent in silence. Tears periodically fell. I shook my head a lot. I will never understand man\u2019s need to take people\u2019s rights away, to keep someone under their thumb, the need to control another person\u2019s life. <\/p>\n

I made a post<\/a> a couple of days later. I\u2019ve written several<\/a> about abortion over the years. A couple of weeks later, an acquaintance was sitting in my living room. This person spoke the following to me:<\/p>\n

\u201cIrene, I read your blog post and I\u2019m sorry that happened to you. But aren\u2019t you angry that you let doctors cut up your baby and murder it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I am not angry,\u201d I said. <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t murder. The person told me I was wrong to murder my child. I got angry. No one has a right to tell me what I can and cannot do with my body. It also wasn\u2019t a baby. It was a clump of cells. I was 14 years old. I\u2019d been raped by my cousin. Fuck anyone who thinks they can make that decision for me.<\/p>\n

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I wholeheartedly support abortion. Women aren\u2019t out there willy-nilly having abortions. Spend some time to learn the facts<\/a>. The Dobbs decision is harming reproductive health and freedom<\/a>. It has also led to a spike in newborn deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I respect your right to choose to be pro-life, however, you are not in the majority in this country. You certainly do not have the right to come into my home, my car, my pretense and call me a murderer.<\/p>\n

Any person who chooses an abortion is not a murderer. They are making the decision for one of many reasons<\/a>. I do not get to make that decision for them.<\/p>\n

I will, on the other hand, aid and abet abortion<\/a> in whatever way I can where ever it is necessary. I have driven women to the clinic, provide funds, and provided a shoulder to lean on. I will do so again.<\/p>\n

To call upon one more idiom, I hope the republican party goes down in flames. <\/p>\n

To those who are fighting with me, I see you. I support you. The majority are with us even if it doesn’t always feel that way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fifty minutes after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I sat in my therapist\u2019s office. It was difficult to speak. All the idioms are fitting. I felt like I\u2019d been hit with a ton of bricks. My soul was crushed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18,288,402],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-abortion","tag-politics","tag-women"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","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=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3978,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/3978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}