November 9, 2016
All morning I have had this horrible and hopeless feeling
that I can’t seem to shake. I have accepted that Roe v. Wade will very soon be a memory and that an America full of
women did this to themselves. And while it might not be the popular line of
thinking, any lawyer worth their salt always looks to cause and effect. What
has yesterday’s choice opened the door for in the future?
For example, do we females still need to vote? After all, we
have daddies and husbands and brothers that could easily make those decisions
for us. We sure don’t need careers right? I mean other then birthing babies and
cooking dinner. Heck, we can finally get out of jury duty too you know that
right didn’t come about until the 1960s. (My mom seated Talladega County’s
first female juror.) And logically, since our bodies are no longer our own I
guess we can go back to being classified as chattel and let our daddies trade
us off for cows and goats.
Laugh if you want at my doom and gloom, or just consider
them the ranting of a female attorney who as an advocate for women’s rights has
now found her job on the endangered species list. I guess I’ll go home now and
take a nap…after all I don’t have any work to do at this point. But before I
drift off I’ll put a pot roast in the oven and I’ll say my prayers. I’ll pray
to my God, whom I hope isn’t the one getting credit for the great state of our
country today, the following:
That you don’t have a son old enough to be sent to war when
your “Commander in Chief” gets his feeling hurt because some other country’s
leader disagrees with him;
That you don’t have a daughter that is the victim of a rape
and finds she is pregnant with a daily reminder of the trauma she suffered;
That you have a strong sense of self-worth that enables you
to withstand the misogynistic treatment you have now not only condoned but have
ratified as acceptable;
That you are rich enough to avoid feeling the squeeze that
those of us in the middle class endure as the rich continue to get richer;
That you remember today, and for the next four years, that
God might have spoken and you might be getting what you prayed for…but that’s
not always a good thing.
God Bless America.
