The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus

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14. No, the "entire problem" was a 50 year campaign of incremental social change & medical/legal destruction

Imagine my surprise to discover that my contraceptive choices were all “abortifacients” — they were not, but that was the propaganda that developed over time.

Imagine my chagrin at learning that my own mother had “abortions” — and her raised a Roman Catholic. No, that was not the case when she was bleeding out from a miscarriage in 1950; she received standard of care that saved her life instead of leaving me and my brother orphaned as toddlers.

Did you know any of that? Did you know that Dubya’s administration passed something called a “conscience clause” that allowed anyone — even a cashier at a pharmacy — to refuse to fill a woman’s prescription for any damned thing that they disapproved of. Because lady parts, I guess.

Personhood laws came in the guise of protecting pregnant women from harm in everything from beatings to car accidents. Except it wasn’t about protecting women, it was about protecting the contents of their uterus by declaring it a full person. Some of us knew it was going to impact IVF fertilization, and probably outlaw it.

All of this and a lot more went on as preliminaries to the Dobbs decision by the SCOTUS. But most people are just trying to get on with their lives day by day. Poor women were already dying before Dobbs, because of the wholesale closure of women’s clinics in red states. But those are exactly the kind of people we Dems are trying to protect — people who are exhausted just trying to get by.