Mr. President It's Not Your Body

We knew what the new acting President would do: scrap trade deals, build pipelines, smite environmentalists, and apparently, enslave women. What do we mean by this?

I know, right?

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to ban federal money going to international groups which perform or provide information on abortions.

Welcome to 2017, the year when older white men still makes decisions on what women can do with their bodies.

New year, old world order. Stay the course America, "change is coming!" The new administration is digging their own grave on the future of American policy, the backlash on all of this change is set to create a massive reset button on the future of advocacy, as millennials obviously don't want society to regress.

When the System itself is Outdated

#abortionaccess vs. #abortionbetrayswomen is yet another example of how a two-party state system creates division and manipulates the public, turning them against each other and creates a convenient illusion of us vs. them.

In what society is this a normal policy?

Men making decisions about women's bodies.

All of Obama's executive orders are on the chopping block. How does this get in the way of business or job growth? You could not have scripted a better scenario for civil movements to manifest and to occur in unprecedented numbers and passion (which we have not seen since the 1960s).

(Trevor Noah is where many millennials in America actually get their news)

First week in the Oval office, no problem. Let's decide what women can do with their wombs! I can just hear in my mind what Trevor Noah is going to say on this one.

The US president's order shows he "wants to stand up for all Americans, including the unborn," his press secretary Sean Spicer said.

What the Future of Values Actually Means

There's a global narrative called "history" with regards to global consensus on things like progress, human rights and feminism. Why would a western nation want to repeat? It's like the fate of Richard Spencer, the counter movement is stronger than the viral movements, policy resets and fads like the alt-right.

The future is not just our unborn children, it's the lives of young women, daughters and the people who make up the future now. The future does not belong to ideology, religion or political bias, it's a global reality where women have equal rights to men.

Let's just reverse the roles for a second. Can you imagine a photo of a group of all-female officials ratifying a new executive order on mandatory vasectomies for all men of a certain age? For many people in the world, this kind of policy reversal is truly detrimental to human rights. It's worse actually, because we've already been through this in history.

Bad Presidents Make Catastrophic Choices

With so many important decisions going on in what will be such a short window, the civil unrest barely has time to occur, as multiple policy changes are set to hit America.

It's not about just how the stocks will react, it's also about how the people feel. If you elect a candidate who is unable to empathize with people, anything can happen.

This decision though is very simple:

• We endanger millions of women around the world, do we care?
• If we trump the status-quo of women's health care, who stands to suffer?
• Is this a step towards banning abortion in the U.S.? (is that even on the table)

For sure, Republicans and Democrats have been involved in a political tug-of-war over the issue for decades, lagging behind many other parts of the world in human rights consensus. Let's not forget, the leader of the free world is 70 years old, he's practically from a bygone era. Thus, how can his policy changes stand the test of time, when the world has already progressed past many of the dichotomies we are seeing now brought up like some unfortunate voyage down memory lane and discovery of billionaire club-America's collective subconscious.

The Future is Ethical

The truth is, it doesn't matter what a 70 year old President says or does, we all know how this story turns out.

Inclusion, diversity, equality, the environment and human rights is the future. But how badly do we care about it? And what are the consequences of letting older white men lead indefinitely?

For now, we'll have to live with the "global gag law". We'll have to succumb to policy changes that might destroy years (decades) of hard work. Policy changes that might lead the U.S. down a dark and irreversible path. Patriotism is dangerous. Making America great again might have a steep price.

We might say down the line, that's when America become like China. That's when America turned its back on its founders, the people and when democracy eroded.

On the presidential campaign trail, Trump said he believed "some form of punishment" should be in place for women who have abortions, if the practice is banned.

In an era of political apathy (and comedy), I guess punishment will have to do. But should young men be laughing, when young women are in tears?

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