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Related: About this forumYes, They Want You (women, girls) Dead
https://jessica.substack.com/p/yes-they-want-you-dead?s=r. . .
To the politicians pushing anti-choice laws, women dying isnt collateral damageits just our job. They believe that if we were real mothers and real women, wed give up anything for pregnancy: Our education, our finances, our safety, our health and even our lives.
Its a belief so strong theyve enshrined it into law.
So why mince words? Why call abortion rights a difference of opinion or an issue up for debate? This is about a group of people who believe women exist to give birth, and that anything we do that deviates from that expectation makes us unnaturaland ultimately expendable.
So, no: Its not an exaggeration to say that the people who create these laws want us dead. They know what their policies have done and will do.
And we know what they really think of women. Thats why when feminists fight to make sure abortion remains legal and accessible, were not just fighting for choice or for our rights and our bodieswere fighting for our lives.
To the politicians pushing anti-choice laws, women dying isnt collateral damageits just our job. They believe that if we were real mothers and real women, wed give up anything for pregnancy: Our education, our finances, our safety, our health and even our lives.
Its a belief so strong theyve enshrined it into law.
So why mince words? Why call abortion rights a difference of opinion or an issue up for debate? This is about a group of people who believe women exist to give birth, and that anything we do that deviates from that expectation makes us unnaturaland ultimately expendable.
So, no: Its not an exaggeration to say that the people who create these laws want us dead. They know what their policies have done and will do.
And we know what they really think of women. Thats why when feminists fight to make sure abortion remains legal and accessible, were not just fighting for choice or for our rights and our bodieswere fighting for our lives.
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Yes, They Want You (women, girls) Dead (Original Post)
CousinIT
Apr 2022
OP
True. USA already has highest pregnancy death rate for an industrialized country.
Nululu
Apr 2022
#3
I'd add or/and cooking, cleaning, grand parent babysitting, and prostitution. Then dead.
electric_blue68
May 2022
#7
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,887 posts)1. K & R!
ariadne0614
(1,869 posts)2. Thom Hartmann just quoted from this, and also a DU OP on the same subject.
Can someone please provide the other DU link? I missed it yesterday, and it was a keeper. Thanks in advance!
CousinIT
(10,208 posts)6. Other DU link
Nululu
(943 posts)3. True. USA already has highest pregnancy death rate for an industrialized country.
Birth control is their next target.
Years ago an anti-abortion group had a reason against abortion that the fetus might be male. A potential MALE birth more important than a female's life.
I never thought of it like that.
Thank you.
niyad
(119,939 posts)5. KNR with deepest thanks!
electric_blue68
(18,023 posts)7. I'd add or/and cooking, cleaning, grand parent babysitting, and prostitution. Then dead.
Thinking of Gilead as partial model.