If you,
like me,
feel like
curling up
into
the fetal
position
from opposition
to IVF
after feeling
helpless
about Dobbs,
then let’s
explore
The Fetal Position.
Personhood
is understood
as a fetus,
or an anonymous
contributor
(or contributing
entity)
to a PAC,
or a corporation.
Actual
identifiable
people
are denied
rights
and
regarded
as wrong
if they belong
to the school
of thought
that suggests
life begins
after birth.
This
theocracy-
style
governance
is a supreme
encumbrance
not just
upon
women,
but upon
families,
communities,
and actually,
our democracy.
Hearts,
bank accounts,
systems,
are broken
for a token
win
that doesn’t
affect
the legislators’
lives;
only the lives
and livelihoods
of those
deemed
killing
personhoods
for securing
safer living
of actual
human beings.
The tortured
logic
for the gynecologic
obsessions
and supposed
transgressions
are injections
of a particular
(and peculiar)
religious
interpretation.
The anti-science
reliance
on a bible
as the guide
for literal
fetal
legal
accountability
will never
provide
sustainability.
From my
current fetal
position
I can only
suggest
that The Fetal
Position,
whose
mission
is prohibition,
abolition,
and ammunition
against
the proposition
of complexity
of life
and governance,
is a minority
of a party
whose priority
is superiority,
of course,
but also
authority
over others—
God fearing,
because
inspiring
fear
is what
they revere.
Fearing
government
and science
as slippery
slopes
promotes
anti-expert
(so-called
elite)
pronouncements.
Their
Fetal Position
is conceived
from religious
interpretation
now codified
as legislation.
We can’t
let our fear
keep us
in the
fetal position.
Find ways
to contribute
to uproot
this acute
and chronic
assault
on the embroyonic
and the Fetal
Position.