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Renee Macklin Good’s wife, Becca Good, said that the 37-year-old poet and mother of three was made of sunshine. 

“She literally sparkled,” Becca Good said in a statement. “I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time.”

But behind that light was a well of deep values that Macklin Good lived by, including a conviction that every person — regardless of “where you come from or what you look like” — deserves compassion and kindness. 

“Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole,” Good said. 

Those were the values that brought the Goods to stop during an ICE operation in south Minneapolis on Jan. 7. Though they were relatively new in town, Becca Good said they wanted to support their neighbors.

“We had whistles,” she said. “They had guns.”

As of January 6, abortion remains legal in Wyoming after the Wyoming Supreme Court struck down two state laws aimed at banning abortion in State v. Johnson. One of the overturned laws sought to ban abortion except to save a pregnant woman’s life or in cases involving rape or incest. The other would have been the country’s first explicit ban on abortion pills. 

In a political landscape where reproductive rights are increasingly uncertain, this decision stands as a clear affirmation of bodily autonomy and a meaningful win for women’s rights. It ensures that women in Wyoming can continue accessing both procedural and medication abortions without being forced to travel out of state for care.  

The abortion and abortion pill laws, which were struck down, were originally enacted in March, 2023, and then struck down by the Teton County District Court soon after. The district court ruled that the laws conflicted with a 2012 voter referendum to the state’s constitution which states “each competent adult shall have the right to make his or her own health care decisions.”

The Wyoming Supreme Court used the same reasoning in its decision this week. The justices decision sided 4-1 with Wellspring Health Access, which is the state’s only abortion clinic, an abortion advocacy group, and four women who argued for the bans to be struck down.

For women who recognize the dynamics of abuse, the killing of Renee Nicole Good—and the official response to it—follows a chillingly familiar script.

In this era of American history, women’s bodies are, paradoxically, both political symbols that authorize male violence and are targets of male violence themselves.

Protecting women’s bodies is often used to justify force—a trope dating back to ancient Rome, where the legendary rape of noblewoman Lucretia by Sextus Tarquinius, the dissolute son of the king, helped catalyze the revolt that overthrew the monarchy and ushered in the republic that would later inspire our own democracy. Women’s bodies also served as a powerful and effective political symbol in helping Trump win his first term in office (Some of the concerns invoked were real.)

But Trump’s second term has revealed that political ideal to be largely devoid of substance. The so-called “party of family values” is rife with infidelity, sexism, hollow principles and documented social and political ties to a now-deceased sex offender. Many politicians’ Christian morals evaporated quickly when it came to protecting women in any meaningful, actionable way, underscoring a harder truth: They do not genuinely care about women. For many women, safety in America has measurably declined.

Demonstrators gather Jan. 8 on the Minneapolis street where 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was killed the day before by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent as she apparently tried to drive away from agents crowding her car. 

The administration has but one rhetorical device to justify violating its own principles of protecting women, a time-honored tactic seen in nearly every rape trial and domestic abuse case: Scrutinize and blame the victim. She provoked it. What did she do to make him do that? 

They have no choice but to push this narrative. The alternative is a blatant violation of their “defender” role: the killing of an American citizen, a white Christian mother, the feminine ideal they valorize. Despite video evidence that, to me, shows not a calculating agitator, but a frightened woman, they insist emphatically that Renee Good caused her own killing.

Authoritarian dystopia is no longer a threat, but a reality. 

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