© photo by Daniel DeMarle 2018
© photo by Daniel DeMarle 2018
© photo by Daniel DeMarle 2018
Welcome to the return of female slavery. A number of Southern States are unified in passing a slew of sweeping abortion bans. Abortion is now criminalized in a number of Southern States. Southern States are passing laws that they know are Unconstitutional. Let me say that again, to be clear, multiple Southern States are passing laws that they know are Unconstitutional! This is a form of mass Southern secession from the Union. These States know that.
Many of these laws take away the right for woman to have abortions in the case of rape or incest. This means that any man can rape a woman, any father can rape his daughter and she has now become his property. Being another person’s property is being a slave. She can not terminate that pregnancy and must carry that baby to term and have that man’s baby. She then must care for that baby, unless she puts it up for adoption.
Let me say it again, being forced to have a man’s baby, against your will or consent, is the same as slavery. Southern White men, the majority of the legislators and Governors who have voted for, or signed these laws are white Southern men, are putting back a man’s property right to a woman’s body. to any woman’s body. That raped woman could be your daughter, your wife, your mother, your local judge, your police chief, or your governor. They will have to carry that man’s baby to term.
While everyone talks about Trump’s bringing back white nationalism. What they don’t talk about is his bringing back White male dominance and ownership over any female’s body.
© by Dan DeMarle 2019
© photo by Daniel DeMarle 2018
© photo by Daniel DeMarle 2018
Somedays, after a long day
You just collapse on the steps
and ponder
should I?
should I?
squeeze through these bars
make a new life in Hawaii
or Australia
Don’t they need cowboys there?
Could I round up those kangaroos?
© words and pictures by Dan DeMarle 2019