my poetic perspective on womens rights

From the standpoint of someone who recognizes both extremes of the viewpoints on abortion, I would like to stress the complexity crafted into one's beliefs. It is important to view the issue not as either “against women or for women.”

President Obama is pro-choice.

He is being called a pro-abortionist. Just because he supports women choice does not make him a baby killer. In our society, we formulate extreme viewpoints, leading to manipulative diction.

Just because someone is pro life does not mean that they are not with women rights. The complexity of the viewpoints stems from the complexity of human values, religion, family, ideas engraved in our ancestry. The situation of women rights is not something that is divided on 2 poles. It is not women against the world, not women against religion, not women against men or society or popular acceptances of truths.

What we are striving for is not women superiority, but human acceptance of all as equals. Isn't shaming someone for being pro life just as discriminatory as denying pro choice? The goal should be to combine the spectrum of beliefs into solutions promoting the values of all.

But we are not trying to complain about the hardships of having men look at our bodies as women, we understand the societal hardships of men, we are rather fighting the discrimination of women in places they are seen as less than human, treated as less than human, so this is what I mean by human rights. We are fighting for human rights.

The poet, Crystal Valentine, says that women are taught that the skin on their bodies are unholy of everything but sin. "But I am an ocean and he is the rain dance which is to say praise me which is to say God creates the ocean on the third day and men on the 6th which is to say I was worthy.” 

“When Anne frank was 13 she disappeared and when she was found, she still said everyone was good at heart. When Joan of arc was 14 she was called for greatness to reunite a country. Malala was 15 when she was shot but she survived with no apologizes. When Mary was 16 she invented science fiction. Cleopatra, 18, when she became queen of the Nile.”

Which is to say, I believe that women, we are so much stronger than the world let us become. We are and will fight for that recognition.