Resist. However you can. Wherever you can.

61% of adult Americans are in favor of abortion rights

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.

“Take the cotton

of the mind’s doom-ridden chatter

out of your ears.

Hear the burning voice of the heavens

the roar of fate,

the ruckus the muse makes.”

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

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

1. 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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