The Republican Future for Women

 

This is the future the GOP wants for women across America.

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— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) December 18, 2023

This reminds me of the wonderful film icon Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mom, who talked on Joan Rivers' show about having to carry her dead baby because it was illegal for the doctors to abort until she was septic. And because she looked pregnant and people knew she had been, they asked her "How's the baby? What are you going to name the baby?" The grief of that seems so unbelievably cruel to inflict on someone--it's like having one's loss rubbed in one's face. 

And the enormity of forcing someone to not only be emotionally rendered by living with that death in life inside, but physically threatened by a potential septic pregnancy is sheer brutality, and I would even call it uncivilized. It seems monstrous to inflict that suffering on another person when it could be prevented--the very opposite of moral. 

People who want to call this pro-life are anti-woman. There is no reason behind it but equating female reproduction with "the sin of Eve" and thinking we should bodily suffer not for something we've even done, but because of a folktale from long ago explaining why labor pains exist.

No one who uses religion to justify punishing people for conceiving and not being able to carry that fetus should be allowed to use that horrific personal religious viewpoint to impose upon others' health and wellbeing. It's a choice a religious person so minded might make for themselves, but they should not insist on it for others.