World Travel and Commerce Advisory!

Do not come to the United States of America. Especially if you are a woman.

Recent attacks on our Constitution have caused severe damage to human rights, and those had already been damaged during the Trump administration. End of Advisory.

Did you know that some states are or already have gone full-goose-stepping nazi? My excellent friend P.J. Abbott posted recently that schools ain’t just banning books. Oh, those photographs of empty book shelves?
All too real.

Now Republicans are banning tampons. In schools. No dispensing, no talk in classes, like we used to have long ago in separate boys/girls single session instructions. You know what I thought of when I read that? “Carrie” (the remake; I never did see the original or read the book). No girl should ever be denied basic human dignity and hygiene essentials. That scene in the film and what her classmates did to Carrie had serious consequences courtesy of Stephen King.

That’s only one of many infringements against the core human and civil rights republicanism has recently been guilty of. Mainstream media doesn’t really spend much, if any at all, time on reporting the terrorist conservative attacks against girls and women in this country. That is one reason that it’s happening. All news outlets except niche sites are implicit. And now you know why the United Nations has placed America on a list of countries hostile to, and dangerous for, women.

Abortion and birth control rights are not merely out of federal jurisdiction, with legislation and enforcement left to each state: remember that South Carolina has introduced a bill to cause women who get abortions to be executed. Yeah. Murdered under state sanction.

I wonder if they’ll make the executions (murders) public? Perhaps they could even be pay-per-view blockbuster events with advance tickets or coupons for free popcorn in your neighborhood grocery stores?

That last bit is not sarcasm, nor is speculation: an uninformed public can be twisted to first conformity and then unreasoning vileness. It’s happening now.

As we come to the end of Women’s History Month, I ask you one thing.

Just one.

(Is this the country so many women suffered in to make things better, and is this the country so many served, in ways modern politicians can’t stand, or even understand, to sometimes just get by, but also to better the future for women, children and even men?)

The question is, was their heroism, honor, courage and outrage wasted?

Be careful how you answer.

Think first. And remember that if you think, the enemy fears you. If you think, you still have a soul, and you are not oblivious, and therefore you have power.

Be aware, though; if we are to bring back the rights taken from women, children and families, some of the historic battles fought by women will have to be repeated. That is a tragedy, but it is true.