This week’s reading reflection made me face what I have been avoiding. I have been trying not to stew in the realization that we will likely always be fighting for rights over our own body. It is surreal to walk around in a country that boasts freedom and liberty yet actively facilitates the oppression of so many groups of people. It makes me more scared for black and brown women who this can now be weaponized against. Scared for survivors of violence and it’s so very obvious with all the babies and children in the world circulating the system with no homes that this was never about the babies. It has been and will always be about the control over women’s bodies. I am angry, for how i cannot protect myself against forceful rules placed against my own body and angry that i may not be able to protect women in my life who want to make decisions about their body. I am confused how  men believe they have a right to an opinion without being qualified. The qualification being identifying as a woman. Roe vs Wade being overturned is scary. The world is becoming more and more scary. While I try to build my own world to be as fruitful as I can make it. Realities like this come up and I just hope protests will be enough to change the heart of the justices before they publish the overturning. That we aren’t going backwards and people and the systems that are created will stop trying to oppress people.