First it was all the abortion laws. We were told it was to protect the children, an unborn life, forgetting about the women suffering over their labors. The mother could die for all they care. Her work here is done. She is left lying there, a deflated balloon, no longer a necessary pawn in this chess game we call life.
Did you know that many hospitals will choose the life of the child over the life of the mother? It’s just so wrong on so many levels to treat human life in this way.
What about the children? When is life truly a life? Questions that keep getting tossed around without anyone actually coming to a concise answer. It’s just so complicated.
My Body My Choice
I have never hidden the fact that I do not want children. That is my choice. For far too long, we have seen women as merely vessels for the creation of life. Once that job is over, you are handed another one. Get back to your former body. Now this new “Mom Bod” you have is gross, and ugly. Again, never quite able to reach any sort of worth or value in this society.
It sucks too, because I have stretch marks and scars too. Somehow mine seem less valuable because there is no baby to attach to it. “Look at what I made! I earned my tiger stripes.” Did I not also earn mine? I have loads of childhood trauma. Not all of those scars are visible.
I am weary of people using children as reasons to control other people’s choices. It’s not to save the children. I wish people would stop saying that. Individual choice should be an option. Here’s where it gets a little confusing. There is also a community involved.
Vaccinated AF
I have a father with Multiple Sclerosis, and I don’t want him to die. Nor do I want any other family member or my friends to die, because selfishness. You have to have both. Individual reasoning and compassion for others. I probably wouldn’t die if I got sick, but why take the risk?
It also seems quite odd to me that people don’t want to be a “Petri dish” for a new vaccine, but those same people are willing to be test subjects for a new virus. My body my choice, I suppose.
I am all vaxed to the max, and I really wish people would stop trying to turn this into whatever we are calling all this right now. In the words of the iconic Paris Hilton, I say get the fucking vaccine. That’s hot.
Mad love, Jenna
