Roe decision has not helped women

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Tweet Mary M. Lindemann writes of the heart-rendering social circumstances she encountered while performing her duties as a social worker pre-1973 ("Celebrate women's right to choose").

She takes special care to remark that these issues happened pre- Roe v. Wade, hinting they were the result of unwanted children, which could have been prevented by terminating the unwanted pregnancies. She declares that society must be prepared to deal with the consequences of these unwanted children, should abortion not be available.

Today, abortion is available and legal (I won't say safe; that would warrant an entire other article), yet I fail to see the solutions promised women 31 years ago. There are still abused, neglected children - both wanted and unwanted - planned and unplanned. In addition, other promises are left empty, too.

We are not more liberated; now we are pressured and imprisoned by reluctant male partners and other opinionated women. We have not attained equality, still limited by the invisible glass ceiling and paid less than our male counterparts. And we are definitely not empowered; instead we rise from abortion tables stripped of the main thing that empowers us, the one thing only we alone can do.

Where is the feeling of empowerment, the equality promised us? Why do my sisters, friends, roommates feel like victims? Why are the promises unfulfilled still 31 years later?

Allena Tapia
English sophomore

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