It goes on and on after Trump's Supreme Court ripped reproductive rights from women: ProPublica is out today with a report about another woman who has died due to the refusal of a hospital treat her as she was miscarrying. Joselli Barnica lived in Texa...

[msglincoln@toad.social]

@wdlindsy We've forgotten why there are so many stepmothers in fairy tales. Women routinely died in pregnancy and childbirth, leaving children behind for stepmothers to raise. Men had to replace their wives rather frequently. Perhaps that's what they're looking to recreate.

[lanaehforaday@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy

In Republicans eyes------------------SHE WAS JUST A WOMAN, so no loss.

This is not hyperbole. This is what they think. The inviable fetus is worth more than any woman's life. So today, will they be celebrating? Nope. Because they dont give even a jack shit about the fetus, they just want WOMEN UNDER THEIR CONTROL.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@msglincoln A very good point. Yes, do a bit of family history, and you'll almost certainly find a disturbing pattern from the 19th century back in time of married women dying young, often leaving young children, and their husband remarrying to give those children a mother — sometimes several times as more than one wife dies. As you say, this had much to do with the severe dangers of pregnancy and childbirth in many cases in the past.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@LaNaehForaday Yes, that seems obvious, from the Supreme Court down, through all the men controlling the Republican party and women who willingly collude in their subjugation by those men.

[epistatacadam@toot.wales]

@wdlindsy That's why the US maternal mortality rate is higher than many poor countries. Clearly the US has a wish to have no healthy mothers or children.

[fmhilton@mastodon.sdf.org]

@wdlindsy I think you will find that nearly every single woman who has died from malpractice or lack of care for abortion was a POC and thus did not 'qualify' as a human being to the doctors. Guaranteed. Racism kills.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@fmhilton The racial correlation is important to note in many of these cases, definitely.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@epistatacadam Yes, and the grand irony -- and outright disgrace -- is that these policies are brought to us and imposed on us by so-called "pro-life" Christians who have exorbitant influence as a minority in our government.

[epistatacadam@toot.wales]

@wdlindsy my eldest daughter married the Son of a republican! And our mutual granddaughters will suffer as a result, I hope his intransigence won't result in my outliving any of my grandchildren.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@epistatacadam I'm sorry you have to deal with that family situation. I hope, too, that your granddaughters will not suffer as a result.

[epistatacadam@toot.wales]

@wdlindsy well I have a great ally in my son in law. I suspect and hope my daughter chose well.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@epistatacadam I'm glad to hear that.