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Sunday, April 22, 2007

GOVERNMENT SLIPS BACK TO THE 19TH CENTURY

For the longest time, women have been fighting for basic rights. Basic representation. Basic everything which have been--largely--delegated to a man's world: The right to council, the right to a good education, the right to speak publicly, the right to vote...?

And they fought long and hard--winning great legal battles, and historical ones which changed the face of the society we now know.

But now with the Supreme Court's latest decision is threatening to turn back everything women have fought long and hard for.

By telling women everywhere that they no longer have legal rights to their own bodies--is essentially telling us that our own government has gone back to the 19th century mode of thinking: Where men were the dominant force in the household, and women were meek and complient--and having no rights at all to their well being whatsoever.

A sad day for American women everywhere. Only because some men don't like what they see and fear is happening on an every day basis: Abortion.

It's not an epidemic. It's a woman's right. Not a wrong.

So why are we telling them how to properly govern themselves? This is the 21st century! Not the 19th!

Let women decide what to do with their own bodies! Us men are just simply too stupid to know what's good for them!

Schuyler Thorpe

xxxth Street xx #X001

Everett, WA 98204

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Blogger Schuyler Thorpe said...

This letter was published a week later by the Everett Herald.

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