In today's episode we cover the death of Roe v. Wade, the future of uterine healthcare, the importance of the ERA, and remind you to vote and take care of yourself during these times. Thanks for listening Uterinekind!
It was never about the babies. In today’s episode, we cover the tragic death of Roe v. Wade and the reality of what uterine healthcare will be facing in the future. Five extremely uneducated, unempathetic, and unethical Supreme Court justices decided uterinekind’s fate and we are furious. Here at Hello Uterus, we will try our hardest to get you the resources and information you need for your health and wellbeing.
Are you thinking to yourself, “How can this even happen?” Learn how our government has been dodging the ERA, Equal Rights Amendment, for years just to keep us and our rights in jeopardy. With the ERA, uterinekind would have full equality and protection over their bodies and rights. What happened? They fooled people into thinking it was already ratified.
Lastly, we end on a high note because we need to. In these overwhelming and discouraging times, we need reminders to look after ourselves and stay strong. We cannot give in to our oppressors because that’s exactly what they’re hoping for and thrive on. Look after yourself and each other uterinekind! Don’t forget to vote in the midterms! Our future depends on it.
Thanks for listening, learning and being you. And join us back here every Tuesday for all things uterus, in service to you, uterinekind.
Carol:
Repealing Roe v. Wade is not about protecting unborn babies, like the Supreme Court of the United States claims. It never has been about babies. The repeal of Roe v. Wade is about power, oppression, and control. If it was about the babies, they'd care about the babies and they don't care about the babies, which is consistent with all of the choices that they make, including the repealing of Roe v. Wade. On today's episode, the Supreme Court decision to repeal Roe v. Wade, what this loss of uterine health care means for uterine kind and why the Equal Rights Amendment could have helped us, and we were fooled into thinking it passed. I will try to keep my cool, and I will probably fail. I'm Carol Johnson, and this is Hello Uterus.
It happened. Roe v. Wade has been overturned. We knew it was coming. The right to uterine healthcare has been stripped from people with uteruses. The right to uterine healthcare. Why don't you get that? Because five people took away your right to uterine health care, your right to save your life. They prioritized your breeding potential over all of your other potential. Let that sink in. That's what this says. It says that your primary purpose is to breed. There's no word to describe what the sort of storm of emotions that I have inside about what we have learned as of this past Friday. I'm recording this on Sunday. I typically record on Saturday. I couldn't even breathe yesterday. I would have done you no favors had I shown up yesterday. So hopefully I'm a little bit more chill only because I don't want to agitate you. I want to inform and empower and support you and cry on your shoulder, but I don't want to agitate you. So that's going to be my main mission. Trying not to lose my cool. I'd like to just read. I know reading boring on a podcast, but trust me, you need to hear this. Read the text. An excerpt of the Supreme Court ruling the Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely on the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be deeply rooted in this nation's history and tradition and implicit in the concept of ordered liberty. Women weren't even seen when the Constitution was written by a bunch of white men who thought it was okay to own other human beings as slaves. These are the words of an originalist what's that? Justice Neil Gorsuch's first love. He wrote the following in a Time magazine article living constitutionalists believe the interpretation of the Constitution ought to be informed by our progress as a society. Yeah, it should. That's an okay thing. When we progress as a society, we should reflect back on the terrible stuff that we've done and make it right. Health care has progressed since the writing of the Constitution by white male landowners. Again, the Constitution was not written to protect anyone but white male landowners. But health care has progressed, right? You earn health care while not as much as other types of health care, because women it's not progressed as much. However, it has advanced since the writing of the Constitution and as a result get this supreme Court of the United States of America. Millions of lives have been saved. Millions. Millions of miscarriages happen every year. The procedure used to save the pregnant person, it's called an abortion. Thousands of ectopic pregnancies happen every year. The procedure used to save the pregnant person is called an abortion. These people will now die, leaving their loved ones behind, all because Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Alito and Barrett decided that they were going to take away the right to uterine healthcare, which we have had for 50 years, from everyone with a uterus, and the healthcare professionals who will now be forced to watch their patients die violating their oath. They do not matter. The five people on the Supreme Court of the United States of America do not care about the experiences of healthcare professionals. They have not thought ahead. Why haven't they thought ahead? Because they don't care. The majority of citizens understand the cascade of consequences that will slam this country starting yesterday. None more so than the consequences to health care professionals and people seeking uterine care. However, that's just one component of the consequences that will result from the repeal of Roe v. Wade. 50 years of rights to uterine health care gone. Not because it's clinically bad for people, but because it answers to a minority segment of the voting population, a minority of the citizens of the United States who have been conditioned by a political party to see abortion as murder, not as what it is, which is uterine freaking healthcare. Want to peek into our new normal? Andrea Prudente, a 38 year old pregnant person, was on vacation on the island of Malta and started to experience heavy bleeding. This was on June 12 of this year. The heavy bleeding was followed by a premature rupture of the amniotic sac and the separation of the placenta. This is a uterine health issue. It's not a religious issue. It's not a Bible issue. It's not a God issue. It's a uterine health issue. She experienced a health problem, and the result of that health problem was an incomplete miscarriage. She was at risk of dying from infection. If the aborting fetus remained in her uterus, she would die. Had she been on vacation in one of the states that just allowed their trigger laws to go into effect, she would have been placed in the same position that she was in in Malta. Because in Malta, abortion is illegal. Had she been in the United States, SCOTUS the Supreme Court of the United States has said that she should die. She could be in a hospital. She could be on a hospital bed. She could be surrounded by doctors and nurses and people who desperately want to help her and uphold their oath to do no harm. But she will be forced to die by the federal government. And this is just one example of how the whole it's about the babies is a bunch of bullshit. It's not about the babies, because you know what? This fetus was aborting spontaneous abortion. It's part of the uterine experience, the uterine health experience. The uterus decides, yes, not this one, this was not a viable fetus, but we're just going to stand around and watch her die? Because a political party saw as a benefit to take the healthcare procedure known as abortion and equate it with murder, when in fact, thankfully, andrea was able to get airlifted out of Malta and be treated. But in fact, were she not able to do that, just think if Andrea didn't have any resources and was an underprivileged person in a state that prohibited abortion, do you think they're going to airlift her to another state to save her life? No freaking way. Repealing Roe v. Wade just made murder legal. Literally. Imagine now Andrea returns home. She's from the Pacific Northwest, so she's not going home to a state that would charge her for a crime. But what if she was living in a state where it was a crime to miscarriage? Would she be charged? She went to Majorca off the coast of Spain. Of course. Swear I'm going to be living in Spain every episode. We're talking about Spain. She went to Majorca and received uterine health care. It was a procedure that could be called a DNC if you want. It could be called an abortion if you want. I don't care if you call it freaking unicorn, glitter shot from a T shirt, cannon, gun, whatever you want to call it. It's uterine health care. What about the healthcare team that stands around and watches a person die because they are not able to intervene and with a very simple procedure, save that person's life? What happens to them emotionally, psychologically? How about in terms of lawsuits and malpractice? Do you think there might be, oh, I don't know, a ridiculous number of lawsuits that they have to deal with now? Not to mention just that, the mental impact of literally having to go against your oath because five people told you that you are no longer permitted to save lives. Skodas does not understand abortion. They don't. I bet if you asked Kavanaugh to describe the procedure, he would not be able to do it. And I'll bet you 100 freaking dollars that he has benefited from abortion. The thing is, they don't need to understand abortion because they don't pretend to even care to understand abortion. If they did, they wouldn't have done this, they would have taken the time to learn about how abortion is a uterine healthcare procedure, a procedure that has been weaponized by elected officials and used to maintain control over the Christian and Protestant vote. And it has nothing to do with the babies. It has nothing to do with the babies. Their understanding of uterine health is zilch. Here's an example of the level of stupidity that we are dealing with. Steady yourselves for this one. Texas representative Jody Loudenberg, she said this rape victims don't need access to legal abortion because they can just use what's called rape kits where a woman can get cleaned out. She is a legislator. She makes laws that govern people and processes. She makes laws. She makes laws and she thinks that a rape kit cleans a woman out. Jodi is not educated. Jodie is not smart. Jody does not care enough about uterine kind, about uterine health care to educate herself. If she cared even just a smidge, she would know that a rape kit is not capable of providing an abortion. I mean, that is like the most ludicrous crap I have ever heard. And that is a person who has an impact on laws. As I've said before on this podcast, they couldn't point out a uterus in an organ lineup. Do you think that they know about an encephaline? That's babies without brains, one of many birth defects that can occur? Researchers estimate that about one in every 4600 babies is born with an encephaly. In the United States, they have to be delivered by C section because while there is a face, there is no cranium. So contractions aren't able to force the body through the cervix and the vagina. This is not a human being who is going to live. Five people on the Supreme Court of the United States want you to know they don't care about that baby. No, they care about the babies who are perfect and they want them born. But these babies, it's okay if the mom and baby dies because her primary potential is to be a breeder and clearly she can't do that well. So let's just let them both die. Imagine not caring about a person who's forced to carry a non viable fetus to term only to have it die walking around every day carrying a fetus, nodding and smiling while people COO over what you know is a casket of a baby bump. It doesn't matter if for seven months you have to walk around, risk sepsis and eventually, hopefully spontaneously abort the fetus. If you don't spontaneously abort the fetus, there's nothing that they can do and chances are you're going to die unless you can afford to be taken to another state out of your insurance coverage area where you will pay ludicrous amounts of money for uterine health care only to then go back home and quite possibly be charged with a federal crime. If we asked any of the supreme court justices. What the percentage of pregnancies that are miscarriages in the United States? What percentage? They probably think it's like .1%. Dumbasses. 25% of pregnancies end in miscarriage in the United States of America. We are now in the midst of a public health crisis. Awesome. Right on the heels of pandemic. This is so great. Have they thought about what happens to a pregnant person who is, let's say, peacefully protesting, and they are exposed to a chemical weapon which causes a miscarriage? A chemical weapon, you say? What chemical weapons? Protest where? Oh, that quaint crap they call tear gas doesn't just make your eyes cry. Gets into your bloodstream, through your mucous membranes, and your skin runs right into your endocrine system. It starts hunting around, looking for opportunities to disrupt stuff. What if you had a miscarriage there? Can you sue the police who fired the tear gas at you? Probably not. Oh, and you might go to jail now. So you as a pregnant person, just minding your own business, peacefully protesting the right to vote, and now your fetus has been aborted and you are going to be charged with a federal crime. What then? Have they thought through how this ruling will be weaponized to arrest and detain people, especially people of color? High school is a pretty rough place these days, I guarantee. Freaking tea you it's going to happen. Your child is targeted with a smear campaign saying that they got an abortion. The police are going to be at your house. They're going to want your child's phone. Ask your child about their sexual history. They might even want to do an exam. Just cuz and it will be so traumatizing. It's five people who are hell bent on slamming us back to the 17th century when white men ruled, owned slaves, kept wives, and forbade them from living free lives. That's where we're headed. This is not hyperbole. The Supreme Court alito specifically, but then they all signed onto it, while five of them they cited, as we said in our first episode, hail from the 17th century who did not believe in marital rape, who burned women because he thought that they were witches or he hung them. This guy is a patriarchal poster demon. And that is who five justices on the Supreme Court relied upon to support their argument that Roe v. Wade should be repealed. The Constitution was a living, breathing document, one that responded to our evolution. It had to evolve because how the hell can you govern a country by adhering to a 250 year old document written by white men who own slaves and oppressed women? This is a remarkable time that we are living in. And I have often reflected back on a story that involves one of my pets from when I was growing up, a dog named Zimba, who's a giant Rhodesian Ridgeback. He got hit by a car when he was younger and had a very bad experience with that, as one could imagine, that experience transferred to physicians, veterinarians, and he hated veterinarians. So our doctor sacrificed her own time on Sunday, after she was one day removed from being in her clinic, to try to get more of the smell off of her. And she would come to our house on a Sunday, dressed in regular clothing, freshly showered, and attempt to provide health care to our dog, Zimba, who, according to her, could have crushed her femur with his jaws. So she was very aware of the dangerous situation that she was putting herself in, but she wanted to provide him care. Well, this went on until he was 14 years old. It became clear that we needed to euthanize him. Better watch out, they might be coming for that too. We called and said, Dr. Johnson, Zimba, it's time. And she said, well, this is where I have to draw the line. And we were like, what? Wait a second. You have been coming here and sacrificing life and limb at this moment when he needs to be put down? I mean, he couldn't use his rear legs, and that's when we knew, right? She said, Oh, yeah, just because he can't get up on his hind legs, that doesn't protect me in any way, shape or form. He will try to kill me. This dog was not like a super aggressive dog. He just had a really bad traumatic experience with a doctor and a car. Why would he do that? Dr Johnson? He's never, ever attacked anyone. He's never bitten anyone. Why would he do that? Because it's his last breath. He will fight with everything he has because it's his last breath. I am not getting upset because it's my dog. That was eons ago. I'm getting upset because I understand the degree to which those who want to strip rights away from Uterine Kind will go to accomplish their goal. It's their last breath. They see the writing on the wall. They know what's coming. These moves that they're making are survival moves. They're not interested in having discussions about them or sitting down and trying to understand our side or any of that. None of that. This is their last breath. Without this, they will not maintain power and control. So they will do everything that they can. Everything. And if you die in the process, they don't care. That's where we are today. The patriarchy is gasping and determined to survive, and that's why we must demand equal rights. But doesn't Uterine Kind have equal rights? No, we don't. So we're going to talk about the Equal Rights Amendment, but when we come back from this break, we are going to spend some time talking about the romanticizing of pregnancy and birth.
Angel:
Hello, Uterine Kind Angel here. I've never really introduced myself before, so hello. I wanted to use this break as an opportunity to share resources with you and to also remind you that what is currently happening in our country is heartbreaking. It is overwhelming. It is okay to feel overwhelmed during these times. It is okay to feel stressed during these times. It is okay to feel anxious during these times because that's a completely normal reaction to what we are currently going through. Remember to look after yourself, breathe, take care of yourself, and keep yourself strong and ready to keep fighting. I know a lot of people are tired. A lot of people feel hopeless. But that is the point of oppression. The point of oppression is to wear us down until we give up. And we cannot give into our oppressors. We have to stay strong for ourselves in our future, in everyone's future. We will get through this. I wanted to give you guys just a couple of resources. This was a little last minute for me, so I'm just kind of doing this off the top of my head. One website I love is Donateabortions.com. It was set up by Helmi Henkin who is known as the Abortionfund Fairy . Donateabortions.com has a list of every state. All you do is you click on your state and it will give you a list of the abortion funds you can currently donate to. I also recommend I needna.com it is ineedana.com. All you do is you type in your state and your zip code and it will tell you everything you need to know on how to get an abortion, where you are currently located. The next resource I want to share is Resistbot. I actually work for Resistbot and I know firsthand it is so easy to use, especially if you're not into contacting your elected officials. Keeping up with voting, signing petitions, it makes everything so extremely easy. And you can do it all by texting. You can actually also do it via messaging. Resist bots DMs on their social media platforms. For example, if you want to contact your local officials, we take care of the intro and outro. All you have to do is type in the body of the message. If I wanted to text Greg Abbott right now, all I would have to do is type in State to 50409 and then type out my message I want. For example, I would type out Greg Abbott I hate you, you suck. Then I would click Send. They will take care of the intro and the outro for me and boom. I just contacted my elected officials. Please contact your elected officials, your legislators. Resist bot makes it super easy. They also make it super easy to check your voting and also to register to vote. If you want to check if you're registered to vote, all you have to do is type in Check to 50409. You can also type in Register to 50409 and they can get you registered to vote. Very easy. Resources if you want to know more things you can do with Resist bot we have an entire keyword guide on resist Bot. Reminder. Hello. Uterus is not being paid in any way to promote or talk about any of this. Check out the rose study on the blog, all that good stuff. Thank you. You're in kind for listening. Stay safe out there and yeah, thanks. Let's get back to the show.
Carol:
The Supreme Court of the United States is actively placing people at risk and celebrating it. Getting uterine healthcare today is already really sketchy. I just read an article a few days ago. Men are actually offered sedation for ultrasounds of their balls. They're offered sedation for an ultrasound? Right. So that's where they get gel and they warm up the little thing that looks like a vibrator and they put the gel on the balls and then they gently roll this very soft thing around the balls and they take an ultrasound of your gonads. And men are getting offered sedation for that. Meanwhile oh, you need your cervix scraped. Yeah. Here's some orange gel. You want to put it on? I don't feel like doing it. How about you do it? It is so out of balance, the experience of uterine health care. So we have a situation where uterine health care hasn't been that great to begin with. Now we're going to make it insanely more horrible for both patients and care providers. We've talked about this before, right? Oftentimes we'll talk about our symptoms, our lived experiences, and they're completely blown off gas lit. Just that's not that bad. It can't be that bad. Oh, come on. It's just a period. It's totally normal. Your mom had it, your grandmother had it, your aunt had it, blah, blah, blah. Right? So now we are going to have doctors who are understandably afraid to treat uterine kind because they will be charged with felony crimes. We are going to stress test the uterine care community like it's never been stress tested before. And we're going to make it so scary that everybody's afraid to do anything. People will be afraid to go to the doctor. Doctors will be afraid to treat patients. Insurance companies are like, is there any way we can make money off this? Because they don't care. Because it's not about the babies. It's not about protecting the uterus. It is about control and oppression and they don't care. It got me thinking about how pregnancy is viewed in this country anyway. I'm sure in other countries, but not all countries, it's been romanticized. It's very strange. Wasn't strange to me when I was pregnant. Now when I see what they're doing, I start questioning everything. They make it seem like it's this glorious moment in your life. It's what you are made to do. Oh, this birthing moment. Are you kidding? I had hemorrhoids so bad that my doctor put me on percocet because the pain was stressing the fetus. Does that sound romantic? To cancel my baby shower because I had asteroids that were like the size of golf balls. Does that sound beautiful? No, it's not. This idea that pregnancy is something that we should all aspire to as people with a uterus is just gross. It's conditioning, right? Because what it does is from a very freaking young age when they shove little doll babies into the arms of little girls, it conditions them to believe that birthing is their greatest potential, to give birth to another human. That our greatest potential is not what we contribute in our careers. It's not achieving our personal goals. It's not excelling in the study of science or health or physics or aeronautics or computer science. No, it's breeding. Breeding. That's our greatest potential in the eyes of those who wish to control our uteruses. They want us back in homes and out of jobs that they believe we have taken from them. They think this is the life we should desire, the birthing. It's a beautiful experience. It is outrageously, difficult, dangerous, deadly. It is all wrapped up in this idea that we're supposed to grab onto that says that serving a man in the home and raising that man's children is the zenith of our existence and that the greatest gift we can give to society is to get the f out of offices, surgical suites, construction sites, the military, and go back home and get dinner on the table, talk to a compassionate physician about giving birth. It's dangerous. They see the happy births and they are relieved, and they see the tragic births. They don't have a romanticized view of pregnancy and birth. They're realists in touch with what goes wrong when pregnancies don't go right. And they also aren't operating with this hidden agenda of desperately trying to get women out of the workforce, back in the home, pregnant, serving the man and raising the children. I am so sure of this because I know one thing stone cold. It takes a lot to get a man to evolve. It happens. But by and large, when we look around this country today, we see a whole lot of men who are really angry. And one of the main reasons why they're angry is that they believe that women have, by getting rights in this country, made their lives terrible. That we're not doing the picnic dance every day. We're actually single working, choosing when and if to have children up until a few days ago, and that freaks them out. Let's talk about miscarriages for a second because this is one of the most common reasons for abortion care. According to the National Library of Medicine, spontaneous abortion, what we call a miscarriage, is defined as the loss of pregnancy less than 20 weeks gestation. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which we call ACOG, estimates it is the most common form of pregnancy loss. It is estimated that as many as 26% of all pregnancies all pregnancies end in miscarriage. It is ludicrously common, right? Very common. And up until last Friday, it was really easy to deal with. I mean, from a clinical perspective, meaning from a procedural perspective, it is not easy to deal with from a human perspective. If you are miscarrying, there are multiple ways to ensure that you, as the pregnant person, are safe. Not anymore. They're regulating birthing. They don't understand the adrenaline, health, or the experience of birth, yet they're regulating birthing. And here's how they can do it. If they haven't seen a person experience an ectopic pregnancy, the extraordinary pain, the very real danger of death, it doesn't exist. If they haven't seen a ten year old carry a pregnancy with a body that is not ready to do so, and under the extraordinary stress that pregnancy would create in their life, it doesn't exist. The number one cause of maternal death, death while pregnant is homicide. If they haven't seen a raging partner kill a person because they're pregnant, it doesn't exist. I'm sure there are many reasons that people come up with in their own sick heads as to why they should shoot a pregnant person who also is their domestic partner. I can't even say that because that's not even what it is. But the fact that that person is pregnant is probably really high up on that list of reasons why, for that guy, what better way to get rid of the baby, then get rid of the person who's carrying it? We have a massive problem in this country with domestic violence. And I'm not talking about the domestic United States of America violence. That's also a big problem. I'm talking about household violence. We have a major problem with it, and this ruling just made it worse. Oh, boy. If I had volume, I might take that. I don't know. I don't. So I'm not going to. But I'm going to take a break, and when I come back, I am taking over. Hear me, hear me this week, because we need to understand something very important about the Equal Rights Amendment.
Alice Paul, an American Quaker suffragist, first introduced the Equal Rights Amendment to Congress in 1923. She then rewrote the text in 1943. And the language to this day is, equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. 50 years ago, the United States Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, following the lead of the House of Representatives and paving the way for it to become the 28th Amendment to the US constitution. Yet the Era was never added to the Constitution because Congress also set a deadline. It said that 38 or three quarters of the states had to ratify the proposed amendment by 1979. One would think that that would be doable, right? I mean, years and years, like we should have been able to get that done in a week. It's just asking for equal rights. Rights that aren't delivered based on what sex you are but that they are equal and applied equally to all. So anyway, in 1979, when the deadline passed and we did not have three quarters of the states agreeing to ratify the proposed amendment it was later extended to, and we blew that deadline, too. Do you think it's because people didn't really want the Era? That's not why most people think it passed in 2020. Virginia, after a fight, became the final state needed to ratify the Era. But guess what? It was almost 40 years too late. We're not out of the woods. I hate to break it to you if I'm the one to break it to you, and I've been the one to break it to a lot of people, because so many people think that the Era has been ratified and published to the Constitution, and it has not. I wonder why. Why would entities why would groups of people want you to believe that something was ratified when it wasn't, and also work behind the scenes to make sure that it is never ratified to the Constitution? It's not as simple as they just don't want women to have equal rights. Let's turn to Phyllis Schlafly or Schlafly. I can think of a few other names. To a lawyer who opposed the Era. She believed it would attack the rights of Housewives. What rights would those be, Phyllis? You mean the right to raise children and serve food to a man, but not have a credit card or a checking account or be able to be on the mortgage? You mean the right to not be paid, but to labor every day in a house from sunrise until you're permitted to go to bed? You mean those rights, Phyllis? She's dead now, so she can hear me. Yeah, the rights of Housewives. She also argued that it would give the federal government its excessive power and that it would hurt women already equal before the law in the ways that really mattered. So essentially, she's gaslighting. No, you don't want the Equal Rights Amendment, Housewives. It's going to take away all your rights. Oh, my God. It's going to take away my rights. I don't want that. Feminists are horrible. You don't have any rights, lady. Going to give the federal government excessive power? Really? I don't know. I kind of think right now they have excessive power because they can decide that I can't have chemotherapy because I'm three weeks pregnant, and that clump of six cells has greater rights to life than I do. Yeah, I think that's kind of excessive government. So where do we stand on the Equal Rights Amendment? It's not pretty. Up until about a month and a half ago, there was a guy named David FERRIERA or something pronounced like that, and he was the archivist for the United States. He's like an administrator. All of the legislating happens in Congress and at the state level with state representatives and with citizens calling their representatives and demanding things happen in this case, that the era be ratified and published to the constitution. All of that legislation happens in those bodies. This guy is like the guy who presses play. He's like the guy who starts the movie in the theater, right? He doesn't have any power. Well, he prevented the Era from being published to the constitution. Then he retired. He retired in April. He could have published it. There was no law that said that he couldn't. He inserted himself into this process, and he stopped the publication of the equal rights amendment to the constitution of the United States of America. Why is that a massive problem today? It's been a massive problem all along, but people weren't connecting the dots. So because that deadline was passed, it slammed the brakes on the era. And then biden came in and said, well, if you can establish a deadline, you can also take that deadline away, and we can progress like regular, normal human beings and go ahead and do what we know is right, which is that all humans are created equal. Well, then you get that next level of pushback, right? And then you start to see, oh, I get it. You are never going to let it happen anyway. After all those marches, all the time that people spent pushing for the equal rights amendment, they were never going to let it happen. Right now, Idaho, Kentucky, nebraska, tennessee, and South Dakota are in courts wanting to revoke their ratifications. Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, Tennessee, and South Dakota, they are all saying, you know what? We don't want to ratify the era. We never really did. Simply providing equal rights regardless of sex. Why are they so against it? Other than the fact patriarchy? Well, representative Maloney of New York shines a light on the real reason why the Era is not published to the constitution. And I'm going to read a quote. With women's rights in the constitution, we wouldn't be dependent on who's in congress, who's on the supreme court, or who's in the White house, because our rights would be protected. The constitutional protection of the Era would enshrine gender equality across all aspects of American life, including protecting the right to abortion and expanding access to abortion care. I'm going to read that again. The constitutional protection of the equal rights amendment would enshrine gender equality across all aspects of American life, including protecting the right to abortion and expanding access to abortion care. The Era never made it into the constitution because it would have made it difficult, not impossible, but definitely difficult to repeal Roe v. Wade. And there you have it. The era is not ratified. It's not published to the constitution because they fear women will take their jobs, their money, will have power and control over their open lives, and therefore won't need to serve a man in order to be clothed, housed, and fed. If you can't connect the dots, then someone can pull the wool over your eyes, and I am really on guard for that. There is nothing I guard against more than being deceived. Not publishing the Era to the Constitution enabled states to go into the courts to reverse their ratification and to refuse to ratify the Era. They will fight it because they do not want uterine kind to have equal rights. That is something that gives them power and control and the ability to oppress uterine kind, and they want that. What can we do? I believe that without the foundational, constitutionally protected rights afforded by the Equal Rights Amendment, we are screwed. So while this is about repealing Roe v. Wade, we need to have an Era sign next to every Roe v. Way sign at every protest. We must be loud and persistent about ratifying and publishing the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Without it, we don't have constitutionally protected rights. Without it, women are not in the Constitution. So therefore, we can't say, hey, you can't create a law about our uterus. What is the equivalent? Kamala Harris asked that during Kavanaugh's hearing when she said, can you think of another federal regulation that applies to a man's body? And of course he stumbled over it like but the answer was no, he couldn't, because there isn't. And had we had the Era, there will be tons of lawsuits that are going to be filed to try to reverse the Supreme Court's decision. But had we had the Era in the Constitution, we could have said, hey, we have constitutionally protected equal rights. You cannot discriminate against us because of our sexual reproductive organs. And that's what this is. This is discrimination and murder. So spread the word to your friends, to your loved ones. The Era needs to be ratified and published, and you got to know your body, know your uterus, and be in complete control of your health and your health information from a uterine perspective. We're going to help you do that. And you need to call your representatives and demand equal health care rights for uterine kind, equal healthcare rights for uterine kind. There is credible information that suggests that they're going to remove plan B and any other pill that could be used to cause an abortion, that they're going to remove it from our marketplaces. They're going to make them illegal or at least very difficult to get as punishment, because we're supposed to remember what our priority is, what our potential is. It's as a birthing person. Because here's the grand finale. Because we need more white babies. They said the quiet part out loud. We need more white babies. Finally, I don't care what the Bible says. I don't care about people's religions. I don't care about what someone else's God says about my body. It's your God. It's your Bible. You follow it. And I will fight for your rights to do so, because that's actual freedom. But to be clear and raised, Catholic here. Do you know what's not in the Bible? Jesus never, ever discusses abortion. Why? Maybe because it wasn't a big deal to him. He was Jewish. The Jewish faith supports abortion. News flash, Christians and Protestants. Jesus was Jewish. The Constitution protects my right to not be forced to follow your religion, your Bible, your God. All due respect to you and your religion and your Bible and your God, I don't have to abide by any of it. As a result, I should have a right to modern uterine health care. Your beliefs about abortion, your fear that you're going to go to hell if you have an abortion or you're committing a mortal sin or that angels will strike you down in your sleep, should not infringe on my right to modern uterine health care. This is about health care and people's right to access uterine health care that is not contorted to fit somebody else's religious views. I don't want to hear any religion arguments about it. I don't want to hear arguments about how abortion is murder. I don't want to hear any of it because I know it's not about the babies. It is about power, control, and oppression and making damn sure that those who don't have a penis are back in the home pregnant, serving dinner to their man. We're not going back to those five things on the Supreme Court that tried to slap us back to the 18 hundreds. It's not going to happen. One of the first things that we have to do is we have to get the era ratified and published to the Constitution. Okay? We're going to take a quick break, and we are going to end on a high note.
Ending on a high note because I want us to end on a high note because we have to in order to be able to maintain our rights, we need to stay focused and draw upon our energy, and we cannot let this beat us down or they will have won. So the high note is that you're protesting, you're marching. You're not alone. We will be there with you. We will fight for your right to uterine health care. We will support you in the event you need to abort a pregnancy. All we ask is that you vote in November because the Supreme Court will not stop at abortion. It was just the easiest one to knock off because they framed it as murder for the last 40 years. So please vote and take three people with you. And please share this podcast with young adults who would benefit so that they can understand where we're at with regard to our protected rights in this country. Share it with men. We need everyone to stand up for the right to uterine health care. And please reach out to your health care professionals that provide uterine care and let them know you support them. You empathize with the terrifying circumstances they are now burdened with on top of everything else, we support you. I cannot imagine what you will be faced with and I will remain conscious of that every freaking day so that we don't lose our health care professionals too. This was an episode, eh? Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening and for sharing this podcast. Your support helps us support those who are in need of uterine care. Thank you, angel, for your producing work and your pep talk. So when I text you to say I'm afraid, I will blow out the mic with my anger. You rock, angel. I don't know if I can do it. It's okay. You can do it. You've got this. You're so awesome. Thank you, Uterine Kind. Everyone back at headquarters, they are hard at work building a platform that will support you in your quest to get uterine care. And thanks to the horrifying state of affairs in the United States of America, we are moving our headquarters to the Netherlands, which is where our development team lives. And that is where your information will be safe. Our promise to you is that we will never share, sell or otherwise compromise your data. And you can cash that check because I will shut the doors of this company before I would ever sell out uterine Kind. We will ensure our business is ready and prepared to fight to protect your data. And we won't track Ovulation because that's going to be weaponized. And there are other ways to help you maintain uterine health. I am so sorry. This has been just a gut punch. And I'm giving you all a giant virtual hug and high fives. And it's backed up by a commitment to fight for your right to uterine health care. It's kind of like I'm in Menopause. I don't have anything to worry about and I'm single. You wonder why? Good God. I mean, it's got to be really challenging to be in a relationship with a man right now. No matter how awesome they are. It just has to be challenging. So anyway, host Menopause and I'm single, so my time and my kids don't really like, okay, mom, we're good. We're good. So other than two cats, my attention is on you. And the company that I founded, Uterine Kind, their attention is on you. And we're going to fight for your right to uterine health care. And we're not going to shut up. We're not going to be quiet. And we are going to fund organizations that will fight for your right to healthcare. And we will fund research that we will take and smack the faces of Supreme Court justices with. I thought we were going to end on a high note. Sorry, man. I'm going to be okay. We'll be back. Next week, we will have updates on Roe v. Wade and class is back in session, this time on Endocrine disrupting chemicals. I am super excited to know that we will be joined by an expert and entrepreneur who has changed my beauty regimen to a skin wellness regimen, which is not like just word nonsense, truly has leveled up. What I do with my skin, to such a degree, actually, that my skin has never been healthier in my whole life, which I know is a reflection of the health and science. And that person is Jeannie Jar Know, the founder of Beauty Heroes, which you may or may not have heard of. It's a fantastic clean beauty organization. Check it out. Beauty Heroes.com, I believe. But just Google Beauty Heroes and you'll get there. We're going to get into the dangers to the uterus lurking in the expensive bottles that are in bathrooms all across this country. So till then, be well, be cool, be Uterine Kind. And if you're hurting, we're hugging. See you next week. Bye.
Angel:
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