by Linda Schmitt, Corvallis
Montana women are not chattel.
This is not a state for wimps. Freedom and independence are deeply held values, along with family bonds and reverence for God. Where does Gianforte get the idea that “a special legislative session” is necessary to tell women what to do with their own bodies? He can’t abide a mask but it’s okay to tell a woman she has to have a baby? In his mind freedom and independence apply to himself and the men of the state. Women in his mind are chattel.
Not in Montana! Montana women have never been “owned” like chattel, pieces of property to be meddled with, traded, managed, and ordered around. Thank goodness Montana men respect the women in their lives. Women have led this state since early homestead days and still do. Our bodies are not battlegrounds for Gianforte’s inability to state the truth: women are independent and free to determine their reproductive lives. Back off, Gianforte.
Claire Kelly says
Why am I not surprised that it is another man who supports Gianforte’s devotion to male dominance? More than half of the people in Montana are female. Those of us who have past minority resent and reject males’ dictating to us. We are not frogs or birds, as Gianforte’s buddy Daines seems to think. We are not chattel;; and we vote.
Mike Miller says
Are you implying your insecure feelings into something the governor has’t indicated (women being chattel)?
Are you saying I support the governor? If you are, I have stated that nowhere.
Based on the US Census page, you’re wrong about women outnumbering men in Montana.
Abortion kills roughly 73 pre-born every year worldwide. Do you support that?
Mike Miller says
Not wearing a mask doesn’t kill a person, further, if you desire to wear a mask, you can. It’s the freedom you talk about. Current CDC stats indicate a 98.8% survivability rate from Covid. The survivability rate of abortion is 0%.
You speak of women not being chattel, yet you seemingly regard a living fetus as less that chattel.
You clearly are a strong supporter of abortion. Did you know abortion is racist? Feel free to look it up. So… if you support racism, does that make you racist?
Will Walker says
Masks are a safe and effective way to reduce the rate of transmission within our community. Arguing that we should not wear them because 99 out of 100 of us will live anyways is quite cold. My uncle would be alive today if he had chosen to wear a mask. It was ultimately his choice, but I wish he had been better informed of the very real danger that covid posed to the young, elderly, and immunocompromised.
Mike Miller says
Roughly 73 million preborn children are murdered every year from abortion worldwide. Unlike everyone wearing or not wearing a mask, those preborn children had no choice; their survival rate was 0%. The scientific fact is that’s much colder than the 98.8% survivability rate of covid.