What is our world coming to?

[piplover]

I've been watching the news, the past few months, and I just... I don't even know what to think.  It seems the country has regressed to pre-1960s in the issue of women's rights, and I'm amazed that there aren't throngs of women screaming at the top of their lungs to be heard in their outrage.

I mean - when politicians make it necessary to have unnecessary medical procedures, when men in government think it's their place to determine a woman's choices, I just want to cry.  What right do they have to determine what is best for me?  What right do they have over any part of my body?  Women are not property, no matter how many may wish to revert to that old common thought.

When issues of birth control can't even be discussed without fear of being called a slut or a prostitute, when people actually listen to this shit... I honestly just don't know anymore.

I was proud to be an American. I love my country, I do, but this frightens me, and I am honest to God embarrassed and horrified to be living in a country where this is even up for discussion. 

I may have been born with a uterus, but that does not make me breeding stock. 

What the ever loving fuck, people?