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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans Condensed",serif;color:#0070C0;letter-spacing:.1pt'><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/30/2066900/-Women-you-ve-had-a-good-run-now-prepare-to-be-reduced-to-incubators-Alexandra-Petri-for-the-WAPO"><span style='color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none'>Women, you've had a good run, now prepare to be reduced to incubators</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans Condensed",serif;color:#0070C0;letter-spacing:.1pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'><img border=0 width=115 height=115 id="Picture_x0020_131" src="cid:image001.png@01D7E6C4.F6F48F00" alt="https://assets.dailykos.com/avatars/large/missing.png"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span class=author-name><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#EA7106;letter-spacing:.1pt'><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/users/dartagnan"><span style='color:#3C3736;text-decoration:none'>Dartagnan</span></a></span></b></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans Condensed",serif;color:#EA7106;letter-spacing:.1pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span class=author-designation><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3A9CD9;letter-spacing:.1pt'>Community</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span class=timestamp><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>Tuesday November 30, 2021</span></span><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'> <span class=time-dot>·</span> <span class=timestamp>8:09 PM EST</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;line-height:18.0pt;background:#F2F2F2'><span class=counts><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'> </span></span><span class=dk-social-btn-cta><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>Recommend</span></span><span class=counts><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'> </span></span><span class=story-rec-count><b><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>218</span></b></span><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'> <span class=dk-social-btn-cta>Share</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2021%2F11%2F30%2F2066900%2F-Women-you-ve-had-a-good-run-now-prepare-to-be-reduced-to-incubators-Alexandra-Petri-for-the-WAPO&text=Women%2C+you%27ve+had+a+good+run%2C+now+prepare+to+be+reduced+to+incubators"><span style='color:white;background:#3A9BF3;text-decoration:none'> <span class=dk-social-btn-cta>Tweet</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2021/11/30/2066900/-Women-you-ve-had-a-good-run-now-prepare-to-be-reduced-to-incubators-Alexandra-Petri-for-the-WAPO#comments" title="Comment count (total/new)"><span class=total-comments><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#3C3736;text-decoration:none'>211</span></b></span><span class=dk-social-label><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#3C3736;text-decoration:none'> Comments </span></span><span class=unread-comments><span style='font-size:8.5pt;color:white;background:#E27638;text-decoration:none'>211 New</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Open Sans";color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Open Sans Condensed",serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>Alexandra Petri, a writer for the <em><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif'>Washington Post,</span></em> is usually pretty humorous. She writes good, biting satire on current political events, mostly spot on. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/30/supreme-court-abortion-mississippi-case-satire/" target="_blank" title=""><span style='color:#EA7106;text-decoration:none'>But this column,</span></a> her latest, is not particularly funny. Nor is it intended to be.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>She begins by acknowledging it’s been a great 49 years for women wanting to be taken seriously as anything other than a vessel to birth a child. To be seen as someone with “autonomy over her own body,” an “ability to make choices for her own future.” Someone “with rights to be respected in her own right.” Alas, that time appears now to be coming to a close, at least in this country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#F7F7F7;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>Those 49 years had flown by. But when the court’s clock struck, her run would in all likelihood begin to end. She would stop being a person with autonomy over her own body that the law was bound to respect. She would go back to being a vessel that might potentially contain a person, a vessel whose rights ended once that possibility was considered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>All things must pass, it seems. All of the amazing choices that were part of being a real person. The vote! A job! An opinion that meant something! So wonderful to be able to make those decisions, like someone who mattered, not someone reduced to a decision forced upon them by someone else!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#F7F7F7;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>It had been so nice, thinking that she could go anywhere in the United States and the laws would have to acknowledge her right to decide whether she wanted to be pregnant, that any doctor who treated her could give her correct information about what risks she faced, that if her life were threatened, her life would carry weight.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>But now she admits it must all have been a mistake, a misunderstanding: “Her rights were all the alienable kind, it turned out, and she was nothing more than a sort of empty clay jar into which, if she were sufficiently blessed, a person might one day be deposited.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>She says it was wonderful and fulfilling growing up in a time when she was considered a real person. You sort of get used to it, after all. But she reflects on those young women and girls who, having known nothing other than being a real person, were now going to have to face a rude awakening.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:#F7F7F7;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>It would be hardest for them, to be so forcibly reminded they were not. To have their autonomy wrested from them. Not only women, either — plenty of people who would be shocked to find themselves downgraded because they possessed parts the state felt were public domain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt'>And she marvels at the gall and chutzpah of those who stand poised in their judgment, ready and eager to devalue every woman’s life, all of them gleefully “salivating already at the prospect of having so many people transformed so quickly, and overnight.” As if with a wave of their little magic gavels they could transform all women into mere vessels for their holy incubation fantasies. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing: border-box'><b><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:red;letter-spacing:.1pt'>They think that women will accept whatever they decide, like good little vessels should. She thinks they’re terribly, shockingly and grievously mistaken in assuming that.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing: border-box'><b><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:red;letter-spacing:.1pt'>The most misogynistic United States Supreme Court in living memory will hear oral arguments on Wednesday about the future of <em><span style='font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif'>Roe v. 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