Blame grandstander

I am not knee-deep in the women’s choice movement, and I’ve lived in Arkansas only two-plus years, but I can confirm that Arkansas does not want to force the Supreme Court’s hand on Roe v. Wade, per a recent CNN headline. A white male, privileged, patriarchy-supporting grandstander is pushing for that to happen.

I respectfully suggest that such individuals who profess to care so ardently about the “unborn” focus at least some attention on the born who are subjected to many human-rights abuses as a result of, for example, socioeconomic injustice, the criminal “justice” system, oppression/suppression/repression of immigrants, and immigration which is often caused by climate change and/or corporate colonialism, gender and racial injustice, etc.; those who are treated as less than human so that another group of humans can live a “better” life.

Consider what a “better” life means: pursuing an ephemeral human construct, such as playing the capitalist game of accumulating more assets, striving for power, (whatever one’s definition of that is), exerting white male privilege over women and people of color, propping oneself on a perceived moral high ground, etc.; or caring for family and neighbors, and tending one’s own garden?

And for the anti-abortion — more appropriately called anti-women or pro-patriarchy movement — folks have repeatedly asked me, “What if you aborted your daughter?” Well, I have my wonderful daughter because my college girlfriend — who was as or more immature than me at that time — had an abortion.

MIKE KARCIS

Fayetteville