General Discussion

you two are very similar in your thoughts. It should be obvious that a child that cannot live on its own, and is instead completely dependent upon the internal female environment is not a baby, as is colloquially known. But turning words in on themselves and thus changing the narrative to create a new, more favorable to their desire, is what the R's want to do. And yes, I absolutely agree, an abortion in the last trimester is a wanted child whose growth has gone horribly wrong. This is what's so horrendous about hounding, charging, or otherwise god-bothering these women is so wrong. Not to mention, their own lives (which is an actual, living, breathing human being) is in danger of being sacrificed on the altar of a non-viable fetus.

Miscarriages, regardless of when they occur, extract a cost to the woman. To be questioned on something so personal is evil. There is no other word it. And yet, these fascists hound the woman with questions and innuendos and outright claims of malfeasance.

We are living in a world where the R's have essentially shifted the narrative to the point the woman's life doesn't have value or meaning or worth. Next comes stripping us of contraceptives. Then, they will turn back the clock on voting rights for us and laws pre-1970's when we finally gained financial rights. It's at this point that I hope we do not become so inured of what has transpired that we don't fight back, violently if and when necessary, to regain the humanity they're violently taking from us. I may be past reproductive age... but I have nieces, a daughter, and (hopefully) one day perhaps a granddaughter. I don't want her to have to fight like we did in the 60's and 70's. And I don't want them to live in the world, restricted from being able to live up to their most fulfilled vision, like our mothers and grandmothers (and some of us) had to suffer under. At this point, even at my age, I feel myself becoming just as militant as I was in my youth. Chronological age will change; principles don't. And I welcome any and all men who see through the static of what the fascists are trying to foist on everyone. As much in my dreams as I'd wish it would be, Lysistrata is not going to happen these days to effect change.