A Woman's Right To Freedom

We decry some Arabic countries where women are forced by law to wear burkhas and cover their faces and cannot speak out. We speak for them, and ask, “Where are the rights of these poor women who can make no decisions and cannot participate?” “Horrors!” we cry. “In this country women can make their own decisions about what they want and about their own bodies!” That is, up until now, at least. For certain lawmakers would have us believe that our government should have the right to tell us we MUST have a child, once conceived, no abortion, no matter the financial or health issues or even rape! They want no birth control for those “wanton” women (Many of them married) who want to have sex without procreation in mind! No more terminations of pregnancies to save a mother’s life or to protect the victim of a brutal rape! In other words, NO MORE CHOICE! No doctor's interference. Other people are given the right to decide what it is a woman has to do. Less government, they say? yet the government will now sit in judgment in our bedrooms? Shame! Shame on these throwbacks to a hundred years ago! Shame on these who would move our country back into the dark ages because of personal beliefs. We hear we must overturn theocracies and turn them into secular democracies like ours, where there is freedom of religion as we have in this country. But some who tout our democracy Want to turn our country Into their version of a government by religious fiat, in which their particular interpretation of he Bible will determine what we can or cannot do. Gone will be options for women! And gone, also, will be that precious freedom of religion our forefathers fought for, along with the separation of Church and State that is laid out in our Constitution! But it seems the Constitution doesn't deter our leaders. Stand your ground, women. Vote! People of ALL religions or none, stand your ground as well! For, if we are too lazy to vote, too lazy to stake our position in defending our Constitution, we will lose everything, whether we are Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Catholics, atheists or, yes, even moderate or evangelical Protestant Christians.