From Diana Vance

Monroe

To the Editor:

Five members of the U.S. Supreme Court made a bad decision based on religious beliefs and not on the law. I am referring to the Roe vs Wade decision about women’s reproductive rights that have been shoved back even further than a Wisconsin anti-abortion law in the 1800s.

Women have proven their worth all through our history. When our men were called to fight in World War I women took the men’s jobs ranging from making bullets to running a farm with a horse and a plow.

Men came home and women went back to fight for their right to vote. Eventually they got it.

Less than 30 years later America saw World War II happening all over Europe. This time it was Hitler who started it and our men went off to fight against this evil man. The women stepped up to do men’s jobs. That included many factory jobs to build airplanes, make rifles, tanks and trucks and whatever was needed for the war. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor our men were fighting on two fronts. Women did whatever jobs they could.

Then fifty years ago the Supreme Court ruled women had the right to decide their reproductive rights in Roe vs Wade. This put women in charge of their bodies. Abortions were legal. Women must have felt more freedom was theirs now than ever before. A woman’s movement began. Women began to dream big — to head a corporation, to be a doctor or a lawyer or the president.

But then our country got a president who had tendencies of a misogynist. Women by the thousands walked in protest the day after his inauguration. So he put three judges on the Supreme Court whose religion was extremely important to them. This president’s hope was that they would end Roe vs Wade. And they did.

If the Democrats ever had a battle to fight it is this one. Women still have the right to vote. The January 6th Select Committee has revealed Republicans as corrupt, anti-democracy, pro-insurrectionists who follow an autocrat who wants to overthrow the government. So fight for seats in the U.S. Senate, the House, in the governor’s race, in all state government positions. Get your lawyers to look for a decision like Roe vs Wade and make a case before the court. Put money into publicity.