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Evil & the Dobbs Decision to
Wipe Out Roe, continued
We spoke yesterday of the first chakra and arrogance inherent in the recent declaration of the once supreme court.
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It is arrogant to discount the number of women who will die from miscarriages and more because of Roe vs Wade being overthrown. And ignoring the stress on families already poor and struggling. And, in demanding that women, even girls, bring rapists’ and incest perpetrators’ babies to term, what kind of children will they grow up to
be?
| No input from the American people allowed: Fencing up at the Supreme Court following the leak of the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Photo by Victoria Pickering on Flickr.
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Will they experience love as a child? Will they become violent and prison-bound and a burden on society as well as family? How will they fit into a family?
The second chakra, our sexual chakra, is clearly at issue in the Dobbs decision as well. As I stress in my study on Evil, the sins of the second chakra are less about sex than they are about power-over dynamics. Control and dominance reign when the healthy give and take of sexuality and of play and of equal rights are ignored.
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"Nobody's Child" by the Traveling Wilburys, part of the 1990 Romanian Angel Appeal to aid an estimated 500,000 children warehoused in orphanages
due to Nicolae Ceaușescu's abortion ban. Netflix documentary HERE. | The shadow side to the second chakra is that “it can be a situation of
creating power over another (or power under) instead of its being an expression of union and of equality or the search for union and quality. It is about “objectifying the other,” and can be a kind of violence, addiction, obsession, control, rape. Many women report that they feel raped by the supreme court's decision.
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The arrogance of the Dobbs decision, the ignoring of 2/3 of Americans’ opinions, exhibits a profound power-over dynamic at work against women and girls, and especially the poor who cannot afford to journey to another state or another country for an abortion. Most need to stay home to attend to their families, to go to work, or do not have money for hotels and gasoline and
travel. All these realities are completely ignored in the misogynist SCOTUS decision written by Alito.
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The SCOTUS document is preoccupied with seeing women as objects and “once we can set others up as objects and not subjects violence is possible.”
Violence almost demands one-sidedness. Inequity, cruelty, injustice, injury, oppression, unkindness, atrocity and savagery follow from our not having taken in the lessons of intimacy that the second chakra has to teach us.
| Defying the state legislature, the Catholic Church, and the Chicago Mob, the “Janes” risked their personal and professional lives to support women with unwanted pregnancies in the pre-Roe v. Wade era. HBO.
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Who can deny that each of these actions of cruelty, injury, even savagery are present in the Dobbs decision against women’s rights to make decisions regarding their own bodies?
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Queries for Contemplation
Do you recognize power-over dynamics and cruelty and misogyny in the recent SCOTUS decision to deny women’s rights over their bodies?
Adapted from Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society, pp. 237, 239, 242. See also pp. 243-265.
Banner Image: Memorial to women who died from illegal unsafe abortions at major pro-choice rally in Washington, DC, November 12, 1989. Photo by Carolmooredc; on Wikimedia Commons. |
Sins
of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about
our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
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