To all the mother’s everywhere, I support your right to work at a decent minimum wage.

I support your right to have paid maternity leave.

I support your right to make health care decisions, including your right to have an abortion, if that is what is best for you and your family.

I support your right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to not be a victim of domestic violence.

I support your right to have your daughters as well as your sons attend schools and to pursue their education.

I support your right to not have your children or yourselves killed by drone strikes or by armed conflicts.

I support your right to vote and to have a say in choosing your elected leaders.

I support your right to express your sexuality whether that be as a heterosexual, lesbian, bisexual, or trans person.

I support your right to marry the person who is the love of your life, even if they are of your own gender.

I support your right to stop the practice of Female genital mutilation (FGM) for your daughter’s and grand daughters.

I support your right to try to end the practice of mass incarceration of your fathers, husbands, sons, and increasingly daughters.

I support your right to live in areas that are not areas of concentrated poverty and to have your children attend high quality inclusive schools.

I support your right to raise your son’s and daughters to be powerful people in their community no matter what your race, ethnicity, or social economic status is.

I support your right to breast feed in public when your baby is hungry.

I support your right to pray and worship the God or the truth that calls and speaks to you, even if that God or truth does not speak to me.

I support your right to work or to stay home, there is no one path to being a mother.

I support your right to take long baths, have friends, have loves, and drink good wine.

I support your right to garden, and to plant seeds that grow.

I support your right to paint, draw, write, sketch, and to appreciate good jokes.

I support your right to love those close to you, as well as your right to be loved dearly, passionately, and closely.

I also support your right to say that more the half of the things I have listed are not your values or wants.  This is just as I support your right to tell me everything important to you that I forgot.