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It's Mother's Day and I have been thinking a lot about our civil rights and the way politicians use a woman's body to gain power and momentum in their campaigns, and the men who don't vote for choice because they don't even think about it, and I just still get really upset and resentful. I wouldn't want to be a mother today. Thank goodness I don't have to be. People have been asking me what I think about the Supreme Court's decision on late-term abortion, and I think, Viagra is legal. It actually makes me want to cry. The injustice women face on a daily basis is criminal. If I said out loud that men's penises should be opened and HIV infected sperm removed, and I started a campaign to make this the law, people would think I was crazy and they would probably arrest me. If I said that men who don't pay child support should be forced into vasectomy, I would be called a Valerie Solanas or a man-basher. Please, that would be a given. Even if I said that all men in the world must have two to three kids, you would hate me. You would hate me because I would be trying to tell you what to do with your bodies and controlling your reproductive rights. Not only would these ridiculous statements be fearful to you as men (most of my readers are men and I know what I'm saying to you is precocious - you know I love you, but just listen), they would cut deep into your psychological well-being and make you feel insecure, uneasy, unloved and unequal. When women's bodies are continually used as the battleground for politics, we women get psychologically and emotionally wounded, just like you would. It's unpleasant and it hurts. The difference is ours is a reality and yours is not. I said it about men in a fictitious you-couldn't-believe-it-way, but women deal with the effects of these real threats at home, at work, in social circles and at school every day. Politicians know they are doing this to us, and we need you men to stand up for us and say you believe in choice and you are willing to vote for it. Why? So it never happens to you. Be grateful it doesn't. Stop it for us. You can't only vote for economic policy today, the stakes are too high. Too many lives are at risk. Stem cell medicine has the potential to save your life one day, or the life of your loved one. We have to think of ourselves first, that's true...but do it in a way that gives yourself equality. Equality to choose, equality to marry, equality to believe. What do I think of the Supreme Court? I think, "Why should they be the only Americans with eternal job security?" There should be term limits...otherwise they will be corrupt. Times have changed since the Supreme Court was determined to bypass the electoral system...immunity for good reason back then, but today that's obsolete. They are subject to special interest today. They are paid for by the campaigns. They are not impartial today...they must be removed when their service of 8 to 10 years is up. The president didn't install John Roberts because he was passionate about the law or even wise enough or experienced enough as a judge, he appointed him because he was young. Right there, that's a perversion of the Supreme Court doctrine. It's a taking advantage of it to screw us all. Believe me, it's true. The only way to bypass the Supreme Court is to amend the Constitution, before it is written out of the Constitution. We women and men must stand together today and rise to the challenge of demanding the law stays out of our bedrooms and our bodies. You deserve it. I love you all. Jodi
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