Gonna be a lot of dead babies and a lot of dead women in Mississippi.
Given Mississippi’s maternal death rate, I should say “a lot more dead women,” but maybe some White women will die and then they might care a little bit. But only if the White women are the right kind of White women. |
Jennifer Rubin nails it. The GOP’s obsession with abortion and enslaving women is fascism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/03/maga-fascism-women/
None of them know what “fascism” means, of course, though they call Democrats fascist a lot. For those Democrats who have not wanted to use a word that many find incendiary against the GOP, here’s a short explanation of why that is what the GOP is showing themselves to be: “Pundits and politicians tend to observe a bright distinction between the Donald Trump MAGA movement’s assault on democracy and the right-wing evisceration of women’s reproductive rights. After all, some pro-democracy voices on the right are antiabortion. But simply because not all forced-birth advocates are MAGA authoritarian supporters, that doesn’t mean a critical point should be overlooked: The attack on women’s self-determination and autonomy is as much a part of MAGA’s fascistic affinities as is the cult’s fondness for violence and white Christian nationalism. One need only look at right-wing regimes present and past to see that they invariably include appeals to hyper-masculinity and demands for women to be limited to their roles as women and mothers. Modern authoritarian regimes — such as Viktor Orban’s Hungary or President Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil — and European fascists of the 1930s alike have sought to compel motherhood and limit women’s participation in society.” |
I doubt it for Mississippi. They are a special kind of mule down there. What’s more likely is the unwanted, impoverished child of a single mom grows up to kill the governors daughter in a botched hold up or something. But they’ll never put the two together, because high-level thinking left that state 100 years ago. |
Google says, already: Maternal mortality rates in the United States appear to have increased in the last 30 years. Mississippi's rate of maternal mortality of 22.1 per 100,000 live births is well above the national average of 17.47. |
Higher than a third world country |
Oh I know. That’s why I said there will be a lot more dead women. Forced birthers just don’t care about dead babies or dead women so long as women are losing their rights. |
And my point is that they are totally fine with all this, until one orphaned or unwanted product of these rules grows up after a lifetime of being abused in the foster care system and attacks their precious white rich babies. Although knowing Mississippi, I’m sure they will find a way to just make things worse for those kids. That’s the “culture of life” in the worst of the modern slave states for you. |
Oh, reminding makes all the difference in the world. The GOP is probably praying fervently that no pretty blond ladies die of sepsis from an incomplete miscarriage. |
Maybe. But everyone knows someone who had a difficult pregnancy, or struggled with infertility, or had an abortion, or lost a pregnancy, or any number of other reproductive issues. This ridiculous black and white, up or down, approach to reproductive health decisions is so misguided to anyone with a clue. Millions of voters will be voting to push back hard against this insanity. It's very important. |
I sincerely hope you are right and part of me suspects that you are. But women have been internalizing misogyny and swallowing patriarchal decisions that hurt them for millennia. |