The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> in 1985, was tuning in on the future. We haven\u2019t quite arrived at the point where all fertile women serve at the will of powerful men and must wear the red handmaid\u2019s garb, but Missouri is now one step closer to that Dystopian vision.<\/p>\nThree weeks ago, that state\u2019s health director – a white man – told Planned Parenthood that in order to renew their license in the state, all women seeking abortions had to be subjected to a state-mandated internal exam three days before the procedure. This unnecessary exam is a punitive measure to discourage women from having abortions. Physicians at the last clinic in Missouri that performs abortions said they would comply in order to keep the clinic open.<\/p>\n
Tonight, Dr. David Eisenberg, the clinic\u2019s medical director, said,\u201cWe no longer need to do this unnecessary and medically unethical, invasive, uncomfortable pelvic exam as part of informed consent. We are choosing to provide the best quality, patient-centered care that we\u2019ve always provided at Planned Parenthood. That includes doing things that are driven by science, by evidence and by what\u2019s medically appropriate.\u201d To continue this medically unnecessary exam, Eisenberg said,
\n\u201cIs just assault.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other words, the clinic is defying the state-mandated law.<\/p>\n
Missouri, by the way, makes no except for rape or incest. So whether a woman is raped by her father or a stranger, she must, by state law, carry that baby to term.<\/p>\n
Roe v Wade has been federal law since December 1973. That was 46 years ago and so-called pro-life advocates have been trying to overturn it ever since. These are the same people who claim that every human life is precious, yet when a child is born, well, sorry, you\u2019re on your own. No universal health care for you, no child care unless your parents have money, and frankly, we\u2019d like to make all education private because having the public pay for it is, you know, SOCIALISM.<\/p>\n
But the central issue with abortion is that the woman is the one who gets pregnant, it\u2019s her body, and it should be her choice whether she carries the baby to term. No one mandates the way a man uses his body, but if Roe v Wade is overturned, then there should be laws that do so.<\/p>\n
Daily, we creep closer and closer to what Atwood envisioned in the Republic of Gilead, a Dystopian world where women are completely subjected to the will of men. I realize there are plenty of women who support trump and the republican agenda that makes such extreme laws possible. Many of you are mothers with daughters who, at some point in the future, may experience an unwanted pregnancy – through rape, carelessness, or within an abusive relationship. Some of these daughters may be young or impoverished or hampered in some way. Why shouldn\u2019t they have the choice of terminating a pregnancy? Why bring a child into conditions like this?<\/p>\n
Some months back, when immigrant children were being rounded up and put in detention camps by the trump administration, I argued with a republican neighbor about this. And he said, \u201cTrish, if your daughter was killed by an drunk illegal immigrant driving a car, how would you feel?\u201d<\/p>\n
My response? It was more likely that the driver would be a white guy who\u2019d had one too many at the local bar. My response should have been, \u201cHow would you feel if a gunman walked into your daughter\u2019s high school and opened fire?\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all part of the same maniacal, divisive\u00a0 culture in which we find ourselves at this particular juncture in the second decade of the 21st century.<\/p>\n
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