Is anyone else surprised?
I am. I think I’ve seen it all and then it turns out I ain’t seen nothing yet.
What’s puzzling me is where are all the doctors of conscience? Idaho passes an insane women-are-cattle bill — women are disposable in the service of producing calves babies. It’s being argued in front of the Supremes. Even the Handmaid, being a maid, seems to dimly understand that this is a women-can-die-who-cares bill.
And yet, apparently, every last doctor in Idaho is so spooked at the thought of prosecution they fall all over themselves complying with slavery laws. (Yes, they are. Laws like that are declaring women don’t own their bodies. There’s a word for that. Slavery.)
Except for the one doctor in Indiana (?) who helped the 10 (?) year-old rape victim, I don’t remember hearing of a single health professional hounded by legal vigilantes.
Why aren’t they helping women escape slavery? Why aren’t they providing abortions while being defended by the ACLU? NARAL? Planned Parenthood? Everybody?
Well, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood are too busy catering to dudes with fetishes to defend doctors over something as unimportant (to them) as women’s right to control their own bodies. And NARAL changed their name to “Reproductive Freedom for All”, so I guess they can’t really be bothered to offer a full-throated support for abortion rights any more either.
DarthVelma on April 26th, 2024 at 07:10
Yes. Seriously. It’s all so depressing.
Years ago (late 1980s? early 1990s?) some intelligent feminist whose name I’ve completely and stupidly forgotten said that the retreat of communism meant that big unifying villain wouldn’t serve anymore.
The next scapegoat was going to be women.
She was so right.
quixote on April 26th, 2024 at 10:37