Women, Our Fight Isn’t Over Yet - By Desi Ward

Women, Our Fight Isn’t Over Yet - By Desi Ward

The little things individuals observe in life differ. Of course, there are a few things that remain at the forefront of all. The lack of maturity, the unjust government, and the absence of appreciation for women. Somehow, these things conjure together to establish the central idea of how the legal systems, designed to protect all, fail to protect women’s rights. The fight for equality and recognition is not over, nor is it close to being over. The fight started in the early 1900s, and it had to end in the early 2000s. The more we ignore the conflict, the harder it will be to overcome it. The legal system has failed before, now, but it shall not fail after. To achieve a better society, we must fight for it, for our own peace.

A few ways, out of many, how the legal systems have failed our women are establishing laws about their bodies, ideally abortion laws, and underestimating the female power due to the emotional aspect women have. Abortion(s) is defined as the termination of pregnancy. Individuals, such as men, try to control a woman’s decision about their body because they feel as if it is their “right”. “Research has demonstrated that denying women access to abortion triggers outcomes that reverberate throughout their lives, impacting everything from the school years they complete to how much they earn (Letzing)”. This piece of evidence deliberately explains the important impacts that denying women their right does to their lives. In the past few years, over a couple of thousand women have been denied the ability to have an abortion. The overall problem with individuals, such as the government, deciding the right to determine whether women can have an abortion is for a couple of reasons. The two main arguments rely on the fact that most individuals who voted on this, the denial of abortion, were men, and abortion is a moral issue. It is not a legal, political, or biblical matter. The person who is being affected, females ages 8 and up, should decide whether or not they want to do such a thing; that is not a crime.

Approximately, when a young female turns ten years old, they receive something called a period, which allows them to become fertile (the ability to become pregnant). It is known to show when a young female is exiting puberty and begins her menstrual cycle. During that time, hormones are released, which interfere with the mental, emotional, and cognitive functions of the female brain and emotions. The world has normalized that because women have menstrual cycles, and their emotions are under attack, they are less than capable of doing anything a man can do. Instead of celebrating how a simple woman can give birth to a human, we have decided to establish that superpower as a fault. A fault that women can not change. A recent study shows that women are actually stronger than men. Science has proven to debunk the idea that men are critically stronger, when in actuality, it is the women who carry all the power. 




Citations

Letzing, John. “What Is Women’s ‘Bodily Autonomy’ and Why Does It Matter?” World Economic Forum, 3 Mar. 2025, www.weforum.org/stories/2025/03/what-is-bodily-autonomy-and-why-does-it-matter-for-women/.

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