Since February I’ve been waiting for an article to come out from the LA Times on our issue. They did quite a bit of digging into the background. And my background. It is a bit intimidating. Let me just say I’ve made my share of mistakes.
But the Times crew was sympathetic, as are most people who take the time to research the issue. But still, I can’t help but feel sad today.
My morning routine consists of getting up, feeding the dogs, taking them outside to do their business, and searching google news for “Ferrets California.” Nothing this morning, same as every morning since I’ve been waiting for this story.
Before 7 am we’re out the door for our three-mile leisure walk with the dogs to pick up coffee and bacon, say “hello” to people en route, and all the other morning routine.
Getting home and getting ready for a 9 am yoga class, Jim tells me “we have a celebrity in our midst” as someone sent him a link. The San Diego Union-Tribune carried the article as well.
So quickly to the news section and there it is “ROE V. WADE OVERTURNED“.
It was like running into a brick wall. A big part of our freedom has been lost. By those whose job is to protect it.
Now I am not pro-abortion. As a man, it just isn’t my right to say if a woman can or can not have an abortion. And having spent so much time at a nursing facility, I absolutely know you can’t make people do what they don’t want to do. Even those with Alzheimer’s, if they say “no” you have to respect that.
I had one person stop supporting Ferrets Anonymous because I said the Supreme Court was corrupted. I don’t like to mix my other opinions in my ferret writings. I’m not forcing my opinions on anyone. I respect people’s opinions that are contrary to mine. And if that person wanted to drop out, that’s fine. She did was she thought best.
I’ve spent the past thirty years working on a very minor aspect of freedom. Ferrets are and should be way down on anyone’s priority list. But when a small freedom is allowed to be ignored and threatened and the people who “represent” us won’t even communicate with us, bigger freedoms are the next to fall.
And the right to control one’s own body is a big freedom.
Freedom is so important. Small freedoms, big freedoms. We want to think we live in a country that values our rights – that don’t come from the state, but we are born with.
Not only is this an attack on freedom, but the arguments also advanced here are atrocious. Advocates say the states should decide, and that it should be publicly debated.
No, it isn’t anybody’s business. The job of the Supreme Court is to protect the minority from the majority. If it weren’t for the Supreme Court many of the rights we take for granted wouldn’t be here.
It’s a continuation of the Fish and Game Commission – and the entire state of California ignoring our rights.
Ferrets are domestic. Unless there was some other argument that they did entail some sort of threat, the state should hear the evidence and come up with a correct conclusion.
An insult to one freedom leads to other injustices and we all suffer.