Monday, April 9, 2012

Thinking

From the United Nations Commission on Human Rights:

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude;
slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited
in all their forms.
Thinking about all the laws passed lately regarding women and the right they should have to govern their own bodies.

For millennia women have been held in servitude, treated as property, first of the father and then of the husband.  The woman who was unmarried had severe restrictions placed upon her. She had to have some man as her sponsor for legal papers and was not even allowed to manage her own affairs.

Was this not slavery? Is it not a form of slavery the way women are being treated?

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution states:


1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

So it seems to me that the laws against women are clearly unconstitutional and Congress needs to stop states from making laws of this nature.  Of course they also need to make sure that women are treated equally in the workplace so that economic slavery does not take place but that is another soapbox.

Just found this on Facebook.  Seems to fit this:

1 comment:

Ur-spo said...

Nothing needs reforming as much as other people's habits.