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[MaineDem]

I'm typing through my tears as I just watched the HBO movie about the women's suffrage movement.

I take things much too for granted. These women fought and suffered so I and my sisters and daughters can have a voice in our government. So that we can cast our votes in elections. So that we can have a representative voice in legislatures and on judicial benches. Hell, women weren't even allowed on juries and, therefore, couldn't get a fair trial in front of a jury of their peers.

It's so easy to forget that what rights we have now were not granted easily. They were not granted without the blood, sweat, and tears of thousands of women (and men) who saw that injustice was being done.

I'll be damned - I will be DAMNED - if I am going to sit around and let others decide things for me this election. Alice Paul and the women of the Suffrage movement deserve to be honored by women taking their places in the voting booths around the country.

A bunch of men in suits posed for a picture as the President signed a bill that reached into my uterus and made it illegal for me to make a decision about my own body. It's easy to sit around and not fight for the right of women to chose their own future. I won't just sit around.

This movie touched me in a good way. I will never forget what those women have given my sisters and me.