What Agency?

Everyone knows that most women embark on the long, joyless process of attaining an abortion with little to no gravity or weighing of consequences.

Thankfully, the Missouri legislature has addressed this pressing issue by introducing a bill the likes of which is sweeping the nation. This bill says that women must, a) wait at least 24 hours between scheduling an abortion procedure and receiving treatment and b) provide "pertinent information" to those women so that they have something to think about during those 24 hours. After all, we all know that women won't think about anything unless you give them something simple and well-explained and instruct them to use the mushy organ behind those pretty faces.

All of this is about denying agency to women. It comes from an attitude in which women should not be allowed to make decisions for themselves, most of all not the ones that patriarchy dislikes. And then laws like this one are part of an onslaught to chip away at whatever ability to act and choose we have left. All under the pretense of enhancing our choice, with that co-opted phrase "informed consent."

Of course, women also get in trouble for things that happen to them that they never chose (rape being the example so obvious and profuse in instances that I can't even begin to rant on) like this abuse of justice against a child.

Dear misogynistic legislators everywhere,
I like your laws in my uterus even less than I like your propensity for gay-hating and public bathroom anal sex.

Many thanks to I Blame the Patriarchy for the story