Leaked SCOTUS potential ruling
May. 3rd, 2022 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI suppose this was the entire point of selecting Justice Beer and Justice Handmaid to the SCOTUS. Welcome to Gilead.
I have never been happier to be a post-menopausal + hysterectomy woman in my life. You cannot recruit me to your enslaved baby factory plan. I am exempt from your bullshit patriarchy.
What would make this ok? Could anything make this ok?
*sigh*
How about we make access to permanent sterilization and/or long term birth control easier and cheaper? This won't do anything for the people who accidentally become pregnant, but it might help more people AVOID accidental pregnancy so that they won't be in the Needing An Abortion Boat.
At twenty, I knew that I was not gonna play baby factory, like, ever. And yet no medical professional would give me the time of day vis a vis permanent sterilization. Not gonna happen. Not willing to discuss it. You will change your mind, they said. I didn't. Your husband may want children, they said. I didn't want a husband and haven't got one yet. (I'm 52 and happily single plus also celibate since menopause destroyed my interest in all things sex. I have never, ever, to the absolute best of my knowledge, been pregnant. I have made a CONCERTED EFFORT in my life and SPENT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, LITERALLY, to not-be-pregnant.)
Look, I just wanted to fuck. I wanted to fuck recreationally, without the risk of babies. Yes please on the fucking, no thank you on the babies. I wanted to fuck easily and comfortably, without committing to a pill every goddamn day. I asked about an IUD. Docs said nope, nope, nopeity-nope-nope. Those were for women who had COMPLETED THEIR FAMILIES, like it was a fucking prize for SUCCESSFUL BREEDERS. There were no stick implants, there was no Depo-Provera, there were no "Opt Out Of Periods" pills back when I was playing the game. You could condom or diaphragm or birth control pills or "foam" but I knew people who wound up with "foam" babies. Fuck foam.
When I was a twentysomething unmarried woman of the LOTS OF FUCKING PLEASE persuasion, I could not have anything resembling permanent babyproofing because the medical profession DECIDED FOR ME what I was allowed to have. And yeah, I'm still pretty damned angry about this.
So if the federal government wants to save the unborn babies then can it commit to helping people who DO NOT want babies to not-get-pregnant? Could we have that?
I have never been happier to be a post-menopausal + hysterectomy woman in my life. You cannot recruit me to your enslaved baby factory plan. I am exempt from your bullshit patriarchy.
What would make this ok? Could anything make this ok?
*sigh*
How about we make access to permanent sterilization and/or long term birth control easier and cheaper? This won't do anything for the people who accidentally become pregnant, but it might help more people AVOID accidental pregnancy so that they won't be in the Needing An Abortion Boat.
At twenty, I knew that I was not gonna play baby factory, like, ever. And yet no medical professional would give me the time of day vis a vis permanent sterilization. Not gonna happen. Not willing to discuss it. You will change your mind, they said. I didn't. Your husband may want children, they said. I didn't want a husband and haven't got one yet. (I'm 52 and happily single plus also celibate since menopause destroyed my interest in all things sex. I have never, ever, to the absolute best of my knowledge, been pregnant. I have made a CONCERTED EFFORT in my life and SPENT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, LITERALLY, to not-be-pregnant.)
Look, I just wanted to fuck. I wanted to fuck recreationally, without the risk of babies. Yes please on the fucking, no thank you on the babies. I wanted to fuck easily and comfortably, without committing to a pill every goddamn day. I asked about an IUD. Docs said nope, nope, nopeity-nope-nope. Those were for women who had COMPLETED THEIR FAMILIES, like it was a fucking prize for SUCCESSFUL BREEDERS. There were no stick implants, there was no Depo-Provera, there were no "Opt Out Of Periods" pills back when I was playing the game. You could condom or diaphragm or birth control pills or "foam" but I knew people who wound up with "foam" babies. Fuck foam.
When I was a twentysomething unmarried woman of the LOTS OF FUCKING PLEASE persuasion, I could not have anything resembling permanent babyproofing because the medical profession DECIDED FOR ME what I was allowed to have. And yeah, I'm still pretty damned angry about this.
So if the federal government wants to save the unborn babies then can it commit to helping people who DO NOT want babies to not-get-pregnant? Could we have that?
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Date: 2022-05-03 05:34 pm (UTC)