Rain, Without Thunder...or...how apathy could be degenerative

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
- Frederick Douglass

Tomorrow is a National Day of Action in Washington DC, when women's rights groups focusing on reproductive health care will flock lawmakers to urge them to reconsider the amendments to our National Health Reform Bills that severely limit women's access to health care in this country.

It seems that this is a very large chip off that old block, Roe vs. Wade.

My fear is that someday we (women) could end up here:This is a still from a low-budget mock documentary from 1992, in which women are imprisoned for fetal murder. Rain Without Thunder is a terrifying possibility. For me, the most frightening part was how now, in 2009, many of the predictions are reflective of our current truth, climate, economic, and social state. Even in 1992, basking in the heavenly light of a new democratic president, advocates for women's rights were still hard at work, predicting the fight we'd be fighting now. Watch this film; take your time, ease in, and reconsider what you've done to help stop the Stupak/Pitts and Hyde Amendments.

It could ruin us. As women, we must not be apathetic and must continue to fight the fight for the rights to our own body. Someday, something growing inside of us will have stronger human rights that we will.

Please watch it, while it's on Hulu and available and free. The first time I did, it was a copied DVD translated from an old VHS. It may not be accessible for very long.