Resist. However you can. Wherever you can.

61% of adult Americans are in favor of abortion rights

Jun 24, 2022

I was 23 in 1973. I didn’t have to fight for my rights.

Today, I’m 72. I have to fight with what I have for the rights that a democratic nation cannot deny.

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“Take the cotton
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of the mind’s doom-ridden chatter
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out of your ears.

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Hear the burning voice of the heavens

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the roar of fate,

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the ruckus the muse makes.”

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(~ Rumi, “Gold”, Trans. Haleh Liza Gafori, couplet, 1943)

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The maps are from the New York Times, June 24, 2022 and the link to a clear understanding of the three segments is: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/13/about-six-in-ten-americans-say-abortion-should-be-legal-in-all-or-most-cases-2/

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