The fucked-up-ed-ness has to fully trickle down to everyone before it will create the necessary amount of outrage. Right now, I see airports as safe travel zones for healthcare because it is a federal function. Notwithstanding those who would use their position to harass travelers.
The fucked-up-ed-ness has to fully trickle down to everyone before it will create the necessary amount of outrage. Right now, I see airports as safe travel zones for healthcare because it is a federal function. Notwithstanding those who would use their position to harass travelers.
Amtrak is federal, so it depends.
But I’m female. And I need to pass South of the Border to go to an author event in Maryland. (This is a theme park on the NC/SC border.) I can totally see these fascist theocrats making me prove I’m not pregnant to leave SC. And my husband will be pissed off because we waited however many hours in the car in view of the sombrero to prove that I’m not leaving the state for an abortion. And somehow his anger will matter more than whatever is happening with me.
So enough of this has to happen before enough people will give a shit. Unfortunately. I am so fucking embarrassed to be an American.
More angry husbands would be helpful. Aren't the majority of women seeking abortions already mothers? Can't remember for sure. Of course many of them are probably single mothers, but some may have a male partner. A woman should never need a man to back her up, but until that's the world we live in, every man needs to get off his ass and get angry. It is our responsibility and duty.
Yes, the majority of those seeking abortion care are already parents - 61%, IIRC. But as you rightly point out, that doesn’t mean married, or even partnered.
Women shouldn’t need male back up, but we often do. I have stories that would boggle the mind.
Quick example - I custom ordered some drapes back when I was still working. There was an issue with the fabric length, so I told the curtain guy that I wanted a chocolate brown border on the top and the bottom, with the fabric I’d chosen in the middle. He refused. I’d already paid him half the cost, so I asked him why he was refusing. “You won’t like the curtains, and you won’t pay for them.” Dumbfounded, since I’d designed the curtains I wanted, I said that I would indeed pay for them if he made them the way I requested. He said he’d only do it if my husband approved the design first. I told him I didn’t have a husband, and he was utterly confounded when I told him I owned the house. The only way he would make the drapes was if I paid him the full cost up front.
The fucked-up-ed-ness has to fully trickle down to everyone before it will create the necessary amount of outrage. Right now, I see airports as safe travel zones for healthcare because it is a federal function. Notwithstanding those who would use their position to harass travelers.
Amtrak is federal, so it depends.
But I’m female. And I need to pass South of the Border to go to an author event in Maryland. (This is a theme park on the NC/SC border.) I can totally see these fascist theocrats making me prove I’m not pregnant to leave SC. And my husband will be pissed off because we waited however many hours in the car in view of the sombrero to prove that I’m not leaving the state for an abortion. And somehow his anger will matter more than whatever is happening with me.
So enough of this has to happen before enough people will give a shit. Unfortunately. I am so fucking embarrassed to be an American.
More angry husbands would be helpful. Aren't the majority of women seeking abortions already mothers? Can't remember for sure. Of course many of them are probably single mothers, but some may have a male partner. A woman should never need a man to back her up, but until that's the world we live in, every man needs to get off his ass and get angry. It is our responsibility and duty.
Yes, the majority of those seeking abortion care are already parents - 61%, IIRC. But as you rightly point out, that doesn’t mean married, or even partnered.
Women shouldn’t need male back up, but we often do. I have stories that would boggle the mind.
Quick example - I custom ordered some drapes back when I was still working. There was an issue with the fabric length, so I told the curtain guy that I wanted a chocolate brown border on the top and the bottom, with the fabric I’d chosen in the middle. He refused. I’d already paid him half the cost, so I asked him why he was refusing. “You won’t like the curtains, and you won’t pay for them.” Dumbfounded, since I’d designed the curtains I wanted, I said that I would indeed pay for them if he made them the way I requested. He said he’d only do it if my husband approved the design first. I told him I didn’t have a husband, and he was utterly confounded when I told him I owned the house. The only way he would make the drapes was if I paid him the full cost up front.
This was in 2010, IIRC.
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