Remember the ladies. -Abigail Adams Dear Readers- Im sure none of you are surprised that the same culture that has decided that it is phobic to proclaim that saying women are nothing more than a personal whim and we are now defined by the functions of our uterus, birth canal and all the other organs below the belt that we are being nudged to believe that our rights begin and end in the same place. Ya know…I keep saying that it’s creepy how much we seem to be repeating a century ago, but this regression to a time when our liberty could be draped in yellow wall paper and paternalism masquerading as public health, coupled with a total hypocrisy and silencing around bodily autonomy with a dose of censorship (for your safety) and justified dishonoring of the very institution that assures our constitutionally enshrined equality? Pardon but…this is FUBAR. *This* is offensive. *This* is demeaning to women (and men) and I don’t believe that the vast majority adult women don’t recognize that none of the reactions to Roe V Wade have anything to do with abortion anymore than the last two years had to do with a virus. I am starting to have a hunch that this has been true for a very, very, very long time. Once you recognize that your body (and soul) are being used and discarded for a political tool…you can’t unsee it. Ladies, (and gentlemen as well) Perhaps we will be able to be grateful for this clarity. But not yet. First we have ‘business’ to attend to. These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. -Abigail Adams