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<\/p>\nBy Lucius Gantt<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Happy Mother\u2019s Day to all the mothers around the world and a pleasant, peaceful and stress-free day to the mothers that enjoy reading The Gantt Report sometimes.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This column may appear in your publications after the holiday but I want good mothers to know that every day should be mothers day.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nobody loves you like your mother.<\/p>\n
The first week of May 2022 also commemorates World Press Freedom Day, a day to recognize and celebrate independent journalists that have risked their lives, lost their reputations and jeopardized their careers to be messengers for the people and the truth.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today, I\u2019ll try to opine about a possible Supreme Court upcoming decision that could ban abortions and throw in what journalists should do in reporting and commenting about rights.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, there\u2019s a time and place for everything. And, oftentimes one has to exceed a so-called right, to prevent or stop a wrong. Rosa Parks sat on a bus seat that she wasn\u2019t supposed to so you could sit anywhere you want to.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 About 70 % of Americans have no problem with laws that gives women a Constitutional right to choose and about 30% of US residents believes the government should ban abortions.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hmmm? Republican elected officials, following the orders of the Russian Babayka, say they want \u201clife\u201d but they vote against child care, health care, affordable housing, school lunches, baby medicines and other things that living children need.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to get into the debate about abortions. Anything said will be unacceptable to some men or women.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I will suggest that you look at the big picture. If politicians can plot and scheme and fight to change the laws on women\u2019s rights, how easy can it be for the same elected officials to change laws about civil rights, voting rights, land rights, water rights, privacy rights, patient rights and other rights?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As bad as the draft of a possible Supreme Court rulings is, the devilish people that wrote the decision, in cahoots with federal, state and local Republicans that don\u2019t support the wishes of the majority of Americans, are worse!<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brother and sisters, it\u2019s all about money, power and politics. They want that money. They want that power.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The billionaires that own companies that you patronize give money to Republican politicians that want abortion bans because they want an abortion ban too. Billionaires also want politicians they can control.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The politicians have a choice, tell the voters the truth, or tell the lies that they are told to tell by crooks and profiteers.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0By now, Gantt Report readers should know, in politics, you never win and you never lose. Lobbyists keep it that way so they can keep getting paid by coming back year after year and arguing about the same issues.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter what the politicians and justices do or do not do about abortions, voters can ultimately decide to kick bad politicians to the curb.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you are as old as I am, abortions will never stop. Today, women need doctors and clinics to terminate a pregnancy but it the old days, some women went to see a lady in the hood that terminated pregnancies with a metal coat hanger, I was told. Women died sometimes during those kinds of procedures.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Journalists must not only report \u201cwhat\u201d they should write and talk about \u201cwhy\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This column my appear in your publication after the holiday because I was out of the country. I encourage papers to post the column of web sites immediately so moms can read it sooner.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Over 40 years, I\u2019ve been somewhat punctual. God willing, columns will not be delayed unless necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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