Women’s rights for all

Over the years I have watched in amazement as the different organizations have gained front-page position in the ongoing battle to advance the status of women and protect their right to decide what happens with their bodies. The National Organization for Women (NOW) was a major force from onset. Today #MeToo has gained the spotlight. I had thought their actions were to benefit all women until it dawned on me that these movements also had an obvious bias. The word bias might be soft-playing their action, or should I say their inaction. There is a certain segment of the female population that has been totally ignored by those who have championed the status of women. I speak here of prostitutes. Don’t these ladies deserve the support of their sisters? For the most part they are forced to work in unsavory circumstances and dangerous conditions. In fact, they are continually harassed and arrested by the police. Should they not be allowed, like all other women of America, to decide what happens to their bodies? I hope that this letter will start a movement to protect those who ply the world’s oldest profession. Of course, this is written with tongue in cheek, but isn’t this what so many people in United States of America have been hoping for? America—the place where everyone is free to do anything and everything they want. It may sound like utopia, but it is actually the road to chaos.

ROBERT W. BEST Greers Ferry