I read with interest a recent letter to the editor on divisions within society. It seems the writer has issues with state and federal government setting requirements for peoples’ behavior during the current covid pandemic. The writer states, “the government has no business making any decisions regarding medical decisions of individuals.”
I’m interested if this writer agrees that such government limitation applies to women facing an unwanted pregnancy. I wonder if he feels it’s an infringement on his freedom from vaccines and masks but it’s not an infringement on a woman to have state laws denying reproductive rights.
My mother told me about a saying that was pushed in Nazi Germany, “Kinder, Kuche, Kirche.” It means children, kitchen, church. That was a woman’s role! We seem, 90 years later, to have a population who still agrees with this social philosophy. It doesn’t matter what the woman wants for her life. She’s only a brood mare and a servant.
I was born at the end of WWII in Germany. When I was old enough, my mother told me what happened in Germany in the latter ’30s and the early ’40s. Took me a while to understand but now I can see the same cultural norms and behavior happening in our era.
I am quite worried about the future of this country. Ben Franklin said when asked what kind of government the constitutional convention had devised, answered “a republic if you can keep it.”
I’m afraid this century will provide a negative answer.
Victoria Brandfield
Edmonds
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