MUST READ! The criminalization of abortion in America was a time of desperate back-alley operations, ruined lives, and ubiquitous suffering which society wanted kept locked-up in a closet.
I came late to the game watching Handmaid’s Tale, having only recently begun binging it. A totalitarian society that strips away a woman’s physical autonomy and reproductive rights in the former United States originally seemed too darkly dystopian for my tastes.
But now it feels as if the storylines are no longer confined to HULU- it is streaming free in real life in real time on CNN and ABC, The N.Y. Times and the Daily Beast. A 12-year-old girl raped by her uncle must bear the child to term- “Hallelujah, Praise God” – or face prison time. Or a doctor who performs an abortion on a rape victim could receive 99 years imprisonment, longer than the actual rapist’s sentence.
How can this be in 2018? Who knew this cautionary tale would be the gospel for Alabama senators, now the latest state to morph into Gideon.
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The Secular Jurist 
Robert, thanks for sharing Sally Edelstein’s article.
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You’re welcome. We must expose what the GOP is doing and speak out strongly against it.
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Its getting worse by the day…and then take a look at this
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a27454956/what-does-georgias-abortion-law-mean-women-who-miscarry/
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I know. These religious nuts will probably want to bring back the Inquisition too.
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Unbelieveable! Yet true … and sickening.
I’m preparing a post on abortion AGAIN! (I’ve posted on the topic in the past.) But all this “stuff” has been so unsettling to me that I’m having difficulty getting it written. 😬
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