Anybody in Maine who cares about girls and their our bodies must be outraged in regards to the choice earlier this 12 months by the U.S. Supreme Courtroom overruling Roe v Wade.
Some individuals suppose Roe v. Wade is controversial. I don’t. Some individuals really feel uneasy about handing the pregnancy-termination choice over to girls. Not me.
Some individuals suppose Roe v. Wade was an unclear choice, not per the U.S. Structure.
That is crap. Let me say it once more. That view is crap.
I’ve been instructed by colleagues that I’m referred to as a politician who has robust views. I “don’t take any prisoners,” individuals say. I settle for that. On this subject, I’d problem my colleagues and all in public workplace, a query requested by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” “So the query shouldn’t be whether or not we will probably be extremists, however what sort of extremists we will probably be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?”
If I’m reelected to the Maine Home of Representatives, I’ll combat, scratch and claw to toughen a lady’s proper to decide on. Please perceive – I’m not speaking a couple of “alternative” as as to if she is going to take a motorbike journey or one thing, however a alternative as as to if she is going to terminate an surprising, undesirable being pregnant. She ought to not should justify selections she makes about her personal physique to the state, or any politician.
Let me make my stance clear: My physique is mine, not yours. Mine. Depart it alone.
If I’m pregnant? Persuade me. Cajole me. Foyer me. However after I make my choice, it’s my name. Not Mitch McConnell’s, not Paul LePage’s. Mine.
I imagine the U.S. Structure affirms this proper to my privateness. However I additionally believed Roe v. Wade was settled regulation. With its efficient reversal, we should be extra clear. The U.S. Structure must undertake an Equal Rights Modification. The Maine Structure should, too.
Mainers throughout celebration strains have lengthy shared a perception in the fitting to reproductive healthcare. The best way I see it, codifying the Equal Rights Modification to the Maine State Structure is important to stopping authorities management over girls’s our bodies in our state no matter political pursuits within the Blaine Home or the make-up of our Legislature. There are additionally many states that don’t imagine in the fitting to entry to reproductive well being care, and I imagine we’ve got an obligation to move laws this session that ensures all residing in these states are in a position to entry providers in states like Maine with out consequence, and that suppliers are protected.
That’s my perception. You don’t should guess the place I stand. I’m telling you now, since you should know the place I – and all politicians – stand on this elementary subject of primary human rights.
Oppose my view? I settle for your proper to criticize me all you need. However I’ve made myself clear, I hope. No wobbling, no cowardice. Readability.
At this crucial time for girls’s rights, I imagine we must demand that of all our elected leaders. There’s a saying I’ll paraphrase right here that my Grandmother Warren had about those that straddle points, attempt to be widespread and have it each methods: “Two issues you may at all times discover in the midst of the highway – cowards, and the occasional roadkill.”
Maybe I don’t must level out that she didn’t make any point out of leaders, there, in the midst of the highway. Maine chutzpah for Maine girls. Any questions?
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