The United States Supreme Court, made up of nine people elected for life, has ruled that abortion is not a constitutional right, so it must be regulated by the individual states of the union. Immediately after this regressive verdict, eleven states made voluntary abortion illegal. Others will join.
Women all over the world will take a step back. I want to say a banality: becoming a mother is the most important decision a person can make. Small thing number two: motherhood is monstrous. It is a form of deep, inevitable, complex and complete love, a love that lasts a lifetime. The love that binds you to your children creates anxiety and limits your freedom of movement, but keeps you connected to future generations. What about children, what about grandchildren. It certainly costs you, like all deep feelings, but on an emotional level it is the riskiest investment.
Here I practice the noble art of debunking the obvious and repeating what has already been said. Yes, because in the United States of America, this world power, this beacon of backwardness, claiming to export democracy, the line has passed to deprive women of the right to choose whether to become mothers or not.
I discussed this with fervor about fifty years ago, months more months less. I was twenty, maybe even nineteen. I knew, because girls know it right away, that access to contraceptives was the minimum necessary basis for liberation from the obligation to serve the family without limit, up to the complete abolition of one’s desires, one’s passions, the possibility of achieving economic independence. from men.
I paid tribute on my knees to San Pinkus for discovering and patenting the first pill that separated sex from childbirth. Without a doubt, the greatest revolution of the twentieth century. At that time, in the United States, earlier than in the rest of the world, it was established that abortion was a right. It was 1971. Feminism was a mass movement. Mass movements mattered. Law No. 194 is with us, fragile and fundamental, always in need of our support, armed with patience, approved in 1978, was confirmed in 1981, winning a referendum that wanted to repeal it.
What is the benefit of legalizing voluntary termination of pregnancy? To correct a mistake, to reduce violence, to confirm women’s freedom to dispose of their bodies, but above all to prevent the birth of an unfortunate person. The children of bad mothers are unhappy. And bad mothers are not always, but often victims of unwanted pregnancies.
Abortion is a painful experience. Do you believe that we are defending the right to do this without health risks or economic costs that not everyone can afford because it is a party, a privilege, entertainment? No woman takes abortion lightly, there is no need to complicate it, to impose the path of despair, to burden even the anxiety of illegality with pain.
Abortion is a fix, divorce is a fix. But everyone has the right to be able to correct mistakes, to be able to reduce misfortune to that inevitable minimum (death, an unfortunate detail that you have only one life and you must make it enough), to be able to decide whether or not to take on the most difficult of careers. : to conceive, raise and prepare a new person to meet the world.
Source: Elle