General Discussion

I was the oldest child in my family. My mother gave birth to and raised 4 living children during the Baby Boom. During my first 9 years of life she was pregnant 7 times.

Of the pregnancies she lost, one was a full term stillbirth. One was a complete mess of a miscarriage in which she nearly bled out in the operating room and had a classic out of body experience. (I did ask her what it was, meaning gender, and she said the docs said they couldn’t even tell how many it was, it was such a mess.) The other miscarriage was incomplete, and she just lived with chronic blood loss, anemia, and utter exhaustion until the family doc noticed her ill health and questioned her when she brought us kids in for something, at which point he ordered her to to go for a D&C.

A D&C was standard of care, for God’s sake, for a variety of “female troubles,” way back in the 1940s and 1950s. And now in the 21st century Talibornagain fanatics and fascist idiots have redefined it as “abortion.” Seems they have decided anything to do with our lady-parts is an abortion.

That’s it. I’ve been careful — and lucky — and my contraceptives of choice always worked for me. But here’s something bizarre: the same religious fanatics and fascists long ago redefined the contraceptives I used in my fertile years as abortifacients, meaning they will lie about anything and everything to do with female reproductive care. And they really do not care if women die.