As the United States churns backward, the rest of the world continues to move into the future. Or, in Ireland's case, to redress a grave wrong, by repealing a constitutional ban on a woman's right to choose — which drove uncounted numbers of Irish women out of the country if they wanted to terminate unwanted pregnancies.
It looks tonight as if Ireland has voted to can the ban — not narrowly, but in a Stacey Abrams-esque landslide: Exit polls suggest a 70-30 split in favor of repeal.
While the ban never should have existed in the first place, we cats are happy to salute its demise. None of us are ever really free without the ability to control our reproductive destiny, so we welcome Irish women back into the ranks of self-determination.
Meanwhile, the US is looking worse and worse, as our Trumpy government tears children from their mothers at the border. And the Republicans who are in charge in Washington claim to be pro-life? Clearly once the baby's out of the womb, they couldn't care less. It's all about controlling women, and we cats HISS.
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