I haven't read any news on Jessica's substack about an Indiana woman who died a week ago for an ectopic pregnancy. She went to her local hospital but they had closed their labor and delivery unit. She died before she could reach a hospital that could treat her. I tried to reach Jessica but I got a message that she's behind on her emails.
They want to take us back to a time that's unimaginable. In January 1951, my mother had a stillbirth with her first pregnancy. In November, her second pregnancy ended in a very premature birth. The first baby died; the second survived, but was blind and had major cognitive and physical disabilities. Abortion and most contraception methods were illegal. (Condoms were prescription-only.) Most prenatal testing methods were far into the future. My mom, as it turned out, was Rh negative--a condition that put her at high risk during all her pregnancies, but wasn't understood until the 1960s. My mom died in 2009, at age 93. A couple of years before her death, I found out about what had happened in 1951. The reason that she went into weeks-long depressions every January finally became clear. Bottom line: mom, and women of her generation, had little to no control over their bodies. Mom, and women like her, suffered for the rest of their lives, and many grieved for those lost babies for decades after. That's where the cruelty comes in: they had the temerity to be born female, so they just got to suffer. That's what we're seeing now. The cruelty, as you've said, Jessica, is the point.
I am simply heartbroken and so angry that women are now being forced to carry doomed pregnancies to term knowing that their newborn will die, or be stillborn.
Of course, for the forced birth crowd the cruelty is the point.
I haven't read any news on Jessica's substack about an Indiana woman who died a week ago for an ectopic pregnancy. She went to her local hospital but they had closed their labor and delivery unit. She died before she could reach a hospital that could treat her. I tried to reach Jessica but I got a message that she's behind on her emails.
They want to take us back to a time that's unimaginable. In January 1951, my mother had a stillbirth with her first pregnancy. In November, her second pregnancy ended in a very premature birth. The first baby died; the second survived, but was blind and had major cognitive and physical disabilities. Abortion and most contraception methods were illegal. (Condoms were prescription-only.) Most prenatal testing methods were far into the future. My mom, as it turned out, was Rh negative--a condition that put her at high risk during all her pregnancies, but wasn't understood until the 1960s. My mom died in 2009, at age 93. A couple of years before her death, I found out about what had happened in 1951. The reason that she went into weeks-long depressions every January finally became clear. Bottom line: mom, and women of her generation, had little to no control over their bodies. Mom, and women like her, suffered for the rest of their lives, and many grieved for those lost babies for decades after. That's where the cruelty comes in: they had the temerity to be born female, so they just got to suffer. That's what we're seeing now. The cruelty, as you've said, Jessica, is the point.
I am simply heartbroken and so angry that women are now being forced to carry doomed pregnancies to term knowing that their newborn will die, or be stillborn.
Of course, for the forced birth crowd the cruelty is the point.