When you strip away the rhetoric and look at the policies—the bans, the criminalization of care, the attacks on those who help—it becomes painfully clear: there is a faction of this country that sees women not as full citizens with autonomy, but as vessels. And the fact that reproductive healthcare is being so viciously targeted, while other rights go untouched, says everything.
It's not just opposition. It's *animus*, as you said—a deep-rooted hostility toward the idea of women making decisions for themselves, especially about their bodies. That’s what makes it feel like women are being relegated to second-class status: not by accident, but by design.
And yet, the resistance is strong. People like you calling it out, exposing it, refusing to normalize it—that matters. That’s how change begins. Thank you for speaking up and not backing down. Because silence is what they count on.
It does feel like that, doesn’t it?
When you strip away the rhetoric and look at the policies—the bans, the criminalization of care, the attacks on those who help—it becomes painfully clear: there is a faction of this country that sees women not as full citizens with autonomy, but as vessels. And the fact that reproductive healthcare is being so viciously targeted, while other rights go untouched, says everything.
It's not just opposition. It's *animus*, as you said—a deep-rooted hostility toward the idea of women making decisions for themselves, especially about their bodies. That’s what makes it feel like women are being relegated to second-class status: not by accident, but by design.
And yet, the resistance is strong. People like you calling it out, exposing it, refusing to normalize it—that matters. That’s how change begins. Thank you for speaking up and not backing down. Because silence is what they count on.
We’re not an underclass. We’re a force.