Bearing the Weight of Change
It is June 25th, 2022. It is the day after the Supreme Court overturned a nearly fifty year old constitutional right for women in our country. We all know this is not a new war for women in America, but this one stings. On the very same day that the constitutional right to bear arms was reaffirmed, women have been stripped of their constitutional right to bear control of their bodies. We are once again reminded that the purpose of our existence is to serve our womanly role behind men; as determined by a justice system that is unrepresentative of the citizens it rules over. The feelings that continue to flood in through my grieving process are all that of anger, sorrow, and defeat. I’m torn by the ambition to turn this anger into ammunition to continue the fight my fore sisters began centuries before me, and the hopelessness that my actions won’t make a difference anyway and to concede. The conflicting perspectives end with the same thought: how do you think the great women ...