Some Other Things American Women Were Not Able to Do 160 Years Ago
An incomplete list after Arizona's enforcement of an abortion law from 1864
Sit astride a horse’s saddle.
Wear a tank top on a hot day.
Live past the age of 45.
Long division.
Own property/livestock.
Travel unaccompanied by rail or public carriage.
Survive tuberculosis.
Survive a broken limb.
Visit “Arizona.” (did not exist)
Have access to a credit card (did not exist)
Open a computer (did not exist)
Set up a monthly recurring donation to the National Network of Abortion Funds of Arizona
Set up a monthly recurring donation to the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Buy a bottle of wine.
Text (did not exist) a friend.
Take the subway (did not exist) to her apartment.
Drink so fast that you start coughing so much that you need your albuterol (did not exist) inhaler.
Make sure voter registration is up to date.
Vote.
I'm getting ready to go see SUFFS for a second time; this time as a new co-producer of this Broadway musical about the women who fought for the right to vote in the USA and in Great Britain. I'm almost 74 and my hair is white & I'm like that old lady in the Women's March with the sign "I Can't Believe I Still Have To Protest This S#!t!" I can't believe we're still fighting for the most basic freedoms, but we must "keep marching" to the ballot boxes. When my grandmother was an adult wife with two children, she did not yet have the right to vote. My Grandma! Here in the USA! I'm only the 3rd generation of women in my family with the right to vote. Keep marching.
I’m stuck on Arizona not existing and yet they’ve excavated this ridiculous law??