I am a millennial and i despise our friends on the left who refuse to admit - let alone to themselves! - that socialism as an ideology is dead. Help people in need with beliefs and ideas that are viable! you want to scream - but they keep splitting the vote and allowing those like Bush the Lesser and Trump into power.
I’m still with you in spirit! Just having trouble keeping up with things. I don’t like to think of having made you sad and scared, just from negligence.
you are a better maternal figure than the one i had in real life. I was scared i had upset you. My psych said i have PTSD elements from my actual mother's behavior.
It is clear that the abortion deniers want to have a conversation with their nurse aid while she wipes there nether regions. Hence the abortion and immigration positions.
This was very informative- I have been questioned before about being pro choice because I have dealt with infertility (I have a 4 year old daughter- it took us over 3 years to conceive her and we had a miscarriage prior to her birth; I have had 2 more miscarriages since we started trying to conceive a 2nd child in September 2020). The way you wrote this is very much why I am pro choice- it is so important that as women we are given agency in our decisions about our pregnancies. There are so many complications that occur, and it makes zero sense that anyone other than a woman (with the help of her doctor and family) would be trying to force decisions on her.
My husband described me as a single issue voter to one of his friends, and to some extent I do agree with that assessment- being pro choice is absolutely so important to me. I am raising a daughter and do not want her rights to be taken away from her, and I certainly want her to have the ability to make choices for herself in the same way that I felt I could.
I chose to wait until after I graduated college to become sexually active, and I went on birth control within a month of meeting my husband so that I could feel secure that it was unlikely we would have an unplanned pregnancy. When we decided to start trying to conceive we had been married 2 years. Our daughter was born shortly after our 6th anniversary.
I will do everything I can to advocate for our current generation and my daughter’s as well.
Thank you for this. As far as I’m concerned, I wish there were more “single issue voters”—if this is the issue! I’m terribly worried that Democrats (and maybe some Republicans? Or is that too much to hope?) will forget the lesson we should have learned in 2016.
That definitely worries me too- I think some Republicans are worried too for what it’s worth (at least some of the Republican women I know seem to be).
I don't know how Substack feels about external links like Youtube, but if you search there like this you'll find it: cheryl wheeler makes good sense to me
A brilliant piece, Susan, and not your first one by any means. I'm going to restack this on Notes but it'll be hard to choose which quotes I'll use to promote it. They should all be up there in neon lights! 💕
A hard to read piece. And they won't change. No rationale or reasons why. No matter how unfair or cruel. They will not change.
One aspect, I think, why Democrats approve of Choice: they realize in some way that the soul/person does not inhabit the fetus until late in the pregnancy, like at 6 months. There are studies on this. I remember choosing this lifetime, but it was more like..."how bout this one...? Hey, no waiting."
I am a millennial and i despise our friends on the left who refuse to admit - let alone to themselves! - that socialism as an ideology is dead. Help people in need with beliefs and ideas that are viable! you want to scream - but they keep splitting the vote and allowing those like Bush the Lesser and Trump into power.
Hey Barbara! I finally spent an hour clearing out my mailbox! You’ll get an email from me soon. Hugs, Susan.
Hugs. Thank you! And, again, you are the Mom figure i wish that i had had in my real formative years.
I’m sorry you didn’t email lately
I’m so sorry. My life can get more day-to-day chaotic than I expect. I intend to do things that I don’t get to. And then I forget. I’m really sorry.
I feel sad and scared that is all.
I’m still with you in spirit! Just having trouble keeping up with things. I don’t like to think of having made you sad and scared, just from negligence.
you are a better maternal figure than the one i had in real life. I was scared i had upset you. My psych said i have PTSD elements from my actual mother's behavior.
thank you for being here for me. I'm glad God/Fate/Whatever has finally given me a mother figure that actually reacts with love and joy towards me.
Sing it loud sister. 👏
Keep speaking truth Susan. This was valuable to read to understand the details of the monstrous injustice of what's happening in Texas.
It is clear that the abortion deniers want to have a conversation with their nurse aid while she wipes there nether regions. Hence the abortion and immigration positions.
Ha. And thank you for the restack!
This was very informative- I have been questioned before about being pro choice because I have dealt with infertility (I have a 4 year old daughter- it took us over 3 years to conceive her and we had a miscarriage prior to her birth; I have had 2 more miscarriages since we started trying to conceive a 2nd child in September 2020). The way you wrote this is very much why I am pro choice- it is so important that as women we are given agency in our decisions about our pregnancies. There are so many complications that occur, and it makes zero sense that anyone other than a woman (with the help of her doctor and family) would be trying to force decisions on her.
My husband described me as a single issue voter to one of his friends, and to some extent I do agree with that assessment- being pro choice is absolutely so important to me. I am raising a daughter and do not want her rights to be taken away from her, and I certainly want her to have the ability to make choices for herself in the same way that I felt I could.
I chose to wait until after I graduated college to become sexually active, and I went on birth control within a month of meeting my husband so that I could feel secure that it was unlikely we would have an unplanned pregnancy. When we decided to start trying to conceive we had been married 2 years. Our daughter was born shortly after our 6th anniversary.
I will do everything I can to advocate for our current generation and my daughter’s as well.
Thank you for this. As far as I’m concerned, I wish there were more “single issue voters”—if this is the issue! I’m terribly worried that Democrats (and maybe some Republicans? Or is that too much to hope?) will forget the lesson we should have learned in 2016.
That definitely worries me too- I think some Republicans are worried too for what it’s worth (at least some of the Republican women I know seem to be).
I’m reminded this verse from a Cheryl Wheeler song.
Well, if some pretty little lady
Gets herself knocked up real good,
She’ll have to have that baby
Just because we think she should.
In whose sick mind did it ever occur
That a choice like that should be up to her?
They’re a Godless bunch. It’s a cross we bear.
But as soon as that little tyke draws air,
We can wash our hands of the whole affair.
Makes good sense to me.
I’d love to hear this sung!
I don't know how Substack feels about external links like Youtube, but if you search there like this you'll find it: cheryl wheeler makes good sense to me
A brilliant piece, Susan, and not your first one by any means. I'm going to restack this on Notes but it'll be hard to choose which quotes I'll use to promote it. They should all be up there in neon lights! 💕
I can’t thank you enough for this. (Also see my comment in the “notes” section.)
Thanks for this, Susan. Thorough, as usual.
A hard to read piece. And they won't change. No rationale or reasons why. No matter how unfair or cruel. They will not change.
One aspect, I think, why Democrats approve of Choice: they realize in some way that the soul/person does not inhabit the fetus until late in the pregnancy, like at 6 months. There are studies on this. I remember choosing this lifetime, but it was more like..."how bout this one...? Hey, no waiting."
I don’t understand your last line, Carol. Maybe I need more coffee. Maybe there’s a typo?
i was questioning the word soul, myself.
You’re welcome. Thank you for reading and commenting.