You Cannot Ignore What America is Doing to Our Women


At the heart of the ‘pro-life’ movement is the idea that women are put on this earth for subservience. And so this is the plan: Force women to carry pregnancies against their will.

 

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Shayla, who made the five-hour drive from Texas to Louisiana twice, sits in the waiting room of the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., on April 19, 2022. The clinic was forced to close the next summer after the fall of Roe v. Wade, after 42 years of providing abortions to women in this rural corner of the Deep South. (François Picard / AFP via Getty Images)

This story originally appeared on Jill.substack.com, a newsletter from journalist, lawyer and author Jill Filipovic.

Earlier this week, an all-male panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that emergency rooms are not required to perform life-saving abortions for women who show up having medical emergencies. And this week in Ohio, a grand jury is deciding whether to charge Brittany Watts, a woman who went to the hospital twice for care when she was miscarrying, was sent home twice, and miscarried in her bathroom. She could face jail time for “abuse of a corpse,” because fetal parts were found clogged in her toilet.

These stories join a litany of others.

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