WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers trailblazing women and events from May 17 through May 24.
The next WOW2 edition will post on Saturday, May 28, 2022.
The purpose of WOW2 is to learn about and honor women of achievement, including many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in most of the history books, and to mark moments in women’s history. It also serves as a reference archive of women’s history. There are so many more phenomenal women than I ever dreamed of finding, and all too often their stories are almost unknown, even to feminists and scholars.
These trailblazers have a lot to teach us about persistence in the face of overwhelming odds. I hope you will find reclaiming our past as much of an inspiration as I do.
”… ensures a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. It also, at its root, protects the fundamental right to privacy. What is clear is that opponents of Roe want to punish women and take away their rights to make decisions about their own bodies. Republican legislators in states across the country are weaponizing the use of the law against women … This is the time to fight for women and for our country with everything we have.”
— Vice President Kamala Harris
is up, so be sure to go there next, and catch up on the latest dispatches from the frontlines:
Many, many thanks to libera nos, intrepid Assistant Editor of WOW2. Any remaining mistakes are either mine, or uncaught computer glitches in transferring the data from his emails to DK5. And much thanks to wow2lib, WOW2’s Librarian Emeritus.
Please fight to save Roe V. Wade and Griswold v. Connecticut, and VOTE for those true Democrats who will also fight for them.
If you have too many kittens, not only will YOU have a shorter and unhappier life, but so many kittens will go hungry, and their lives will be short and unhappy too – because those mean Republicans never vote to help the mamas, or to help the babies either, after they’re born.
The Declaration of Independence doesn’t just say ‘right to life’
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.―That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ―That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness ...”
And that is straight-out “original intent” of those Founding Fathers.