Rather than just share memes and complain about it, I did go and order, even before this came out but just when it was kind of threatened. Well, we knew ‘cause of the draft, I ordered a petition sheet. And so I've collected some signatures and I'm gonna send that back just to get this on the ballot in Michigan ‘cause at the end of the day if it's our decision as a state, I would like it to be the current people's decision, not people from, you know, 1931 or the 50s or the 60s. Like put it before your current people, where I do feel like in the state it would overwhelmingly pass because I know several people who are super conservative who still believe it should be their right to choose. So I'm very excited that it doesn't appear to be such a partisan issue and that it's more of people are recognizing this is about our rights as women. And maybe I'm sharing this information and the person listening is not happy with that. I'm so sorry. I'm not trying to offend anyone. I just, I don't wanna make any decision for anyone. I would hate to be put in that position. I've never had to be put in that position. The only miscarriage I've ever had didn't require intervention of any kind. But I just don't wanna make a decision for someone else and I want me and my husband to be able to make the right decision for us, and, and we do want a baby. We want one really soon, but who's to say? You know, you just -- there's so many situations that you don't know you'll be put into and I don't want to be relegated to my life being threatened or carrying the life of a baby that, or not carrying the life, carrying a baby who's not going to have a life or is gonna be harmful to deliver because there's something so wrong with their physical structure. I mean, there's just so many situations, and so I'm really -- I'm trying to just be positive that we can mobilize and do exactly what we have the power to do. But it's, it's very heavy on my mind and I'm thankfully married to someone who, he saw it before I did because I was just very busy at work,…

Note: There is language that is excluded in the transcript but not excluded in the audio. Did end up finding a number of organizations to donate to. ACLU, of course, they're, they're kind of a standby for these types of issues, individual liberty and freedom types of issues. So yeah, put through some money towards the ACLU Charter of Michigan, or ACLU section in Michigan. Found this one called Midwest Access to Abortion. I believe that's what it was called, based out of Chicago, Midwest Access to Abortion. And they, despite being based out of Chicago, they, they had a map on their website that showed all the Midwest states the conventional Midwest states, you know, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and they counted North Dakota, South Dakota, and Illinois. I'm striking out about whether they covered Nebraska or not. I think they did. It was like the census definition of the Midwest. But anyways, so their goal is to, they don't provide direct financial support to the, for the medical procedure for abortion, but they are logistics people. And so they, I heard, first heard about them like a month or two ago when the memo leaked, and I'm not sure what their training or purpose was before that, but, you know, if someone doesn't have access to, what's it called, plan C? If someone doesn't have access to plan C, travel is gonna be their move. And so that's what this organization exists to do. Threw some money to them based out of Chicago, Midwest Access to Abortion. I might be slightly misremembering the name. I mean it's, the story kind of begins now, right? What's gonna happen in this new version of, of the country, you know, not to make it too grand of a statement, but like this is, this is gonna f*** a lot of things up, I think. A lot of plans that people had, and plans that didn't, people didn't have. The plan A, the plan B, the plan C is one way I heard it, saw it explained today. Oh, that was the other one. It was a “I need an A, dot org” was one of the key websites that I saw these funds pointing people towards when they need help so. “I need an A, dot org.”

Note: There is language that is excluded in the transcript but not excluded in the audio. The Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v Wade today, and it basically, what that means is that states now can decide the fate of abortion rights in their own constitutions and in their own legislature, which is kind of, kind of nerve-wracking because there's a lot of states that don't agree with it. Which I -- and it's not that I think everyone should believe the same things that I think. However, I think there are a lot of areas where it's just not up for debate with that being areas where people should be able to do what they want. Like abortion, I fully, fully believe that anybody should be able to get one if they want it, so they please. I don't give a f*** if it's not in your religion. I don't give a f*** if you don't, if you personally don't want one, I don't care. But you shouldn't be allowing yourself to make that decision for somebody else. You just can't. Like you can choose, if you get pregnant and you choose to keep the -- your baby, then that's fine. That's perfectly fine. But I truly do not believe that anybody should be making that decision for anybody. I definitely think that's something that somebody that -- a person should be able to make for themselves, that a woman should be able to make for herself. I don't think it's up for f***ing debate ever. Like I said, I don't, I just don't get where people get off on having this control over somebody you don't even f***ing know. Like, like what the f*** do you care if some random girl in a different state chooses to get an abortion? Like those people that stand outside of Planned Parenthood with signs like protesting it, what the f*** are you doing? Like you, don't have a better way to spend your afternoon other than harassing girls who might not even be get -- who cares if they're going in to get an abortion, but maybe they're not, maybe they're just going to get f***ing birth control or an STD test. You don't f***ing know. Like, I just don't get it.

The big national news of today is that Roe versus Wade was overturned which is horrible, and I don't know where we as women go from here. I used to work at Planned Parenthood, but it was so emotionally taxing, like, there's never any resolution on so many issues, and it's just so frustrating that I had to step away. And I think that happens to a lot of younger women because like of all the friends I knew that worked there, none of them do anymore, and most of the people that worked there were like younger in their early twenties, and I was in my early twenties when I worked there, so I think it's a job that people burn out of quickly, which is unfortunate because it's not an unimportant job. But, just like for my mental health, it's so hard to follow it and be involved and all that and like emotionally it's really hard. I had a couple different jobs there, but one of the things I did was work in the call center and that was especially hard because like you'd hear people calling like on the worst, like, scariest days of their lives. Like they didn't want anyone -- like they were a child trying not to let their parents know or they were someone who had an affair and had an STD or something like that. It was horrible and I, I don't regret leaving there at all.

I'm generally not pro, I guess I would call it, I'm not pro-forced birth. Which I'm also not pro-abortion, I guess? Like I -- it's weird how everything's been whittled down to two phrases, which is usually like pro-life or pro-choice. It's so much more complicated. Like I, I'm not a fan of abortions like, “You know what I like? When people get abortions.” But I think I do believe in people's right to be able to have them, absolutely. I've wondered, and I think this is overly simplistic because it's a very complicated issue but, I’ve wondered, I feel so silly making this, this argument, but I've wondered if men were the people who had to give birth, whether this debate would still be a debate. Just because, I just -- I think this is my thing. Forcing someone to give birth -- birth is such a huge, serious, life altering, physically altering, consequential, no going back process. And I just, I guess I'm troubled at the notion of forcing everyone to have to go through with that, if they become pregnant by any means. You know, if men, I don't know, like if the role I would play, I don't have a child and I, I've never really been in this position, but if I were to impregnate someone, the role I would play would be that of a caretaker. And so, you know, monetary supporter at like worst. That's it. I don't -- I don't go through any physical alterations. My intestines don't get rearranged. I don't have to go through this potentially deadly process where parts of me are disfigured and sometimes permanently. I, I don't know. It's just a tough pill for me to swallow as being a thing that is completely outlawed. But I guess I do acknowledge that it's a complex issue and to everything I say I understand there's someone who has a, a counterpoint which is why this has gone round and round.