ABORTION

There’s a war going on outside, and it’s not the one you’re thinking of. It’s between men and uteri. For centuries, men have laid claim to women’s bodies through a combination of manifest destiny, religion, and “we were here first” logic. Throughout history, men have created laws and policies policing what women can and can’t do with their bodies and minds. Slowly, women have made progress, such as gaining the right to choose who they marry and even voting in elections. The war is far from over, though, as the final frontier is yet to be conquered: abortions. The war was thought to have been won when women conquered abortion in the 1973 battle of Roe v. Wade, but a surprise attack by some male leftovers in 2022 left them no longer in control of their own uteruses.