Still chilly, still sunny, and we’ve made it all the way to the end of the week. Oh and I just remembered the evidence in donald’s J6 case will be released today, the exhibits Special Prosecutor Jack Smith used to support his motion separating donald’s “official acts,” which confer him immunity, as per the SCOTUS he assembled to do that, and his unofficial acts, for which he could still be prosecuted.
Should be a fun day.
I’ve been watching a Kdrama that’s light science fiction, but the science is really bad, and I’m starting to wonder if it’s a little right-wingy. It’s pushed what a friend and I call “birthaganda,” this whole genre of news stories since women were demoted to something less than human, our health not a consideration, let alone a priority.
Birthaganda promotes the concept that there is moral merit and personal edification and reward in suffering through a pregnancy that will have a bad outcome. That it’s better to put your body through the stress and risks of pregnancy and possible infection to deliver a fetus that is already not living or is unlikely to live. That all of that is to be celebrated, and you will somehow be “better” for it.
Happy happy happy.
It’s not limited, though, to pregnancies incompatible with life for the zygote/embryo/fetus or pregnant person, though. It also includes stories intended to be “heartwarming” of hospital staff adopting “abandoned” unwanted babies, of relatives taking in children their parents don’t want. Teenagers joyously balancing motherhood with childhood.
That’s spurred another branch in revisionist childcare, something that seems even more prevalent since jd vance said grandparents should provide childcare instead of suggesting any real solutions to the crisis in this country. Someone has to take care of all of these coerced babies.
Revisionist childcare articles feature smiling grandparents who have moved, sometimes continents, who have given up their independence, who have made their lives caring for their grandchildren.
Happy happy happy.
It’s only subtle until you notice the birthaganda and the revisionist childcare. And then it’s not subtle at all.
The birthaganda is a calculated attempt to take the anger of overruling Roe v. Wade out of the mainstream. “It’s FINE,” these articles suggest. “Everyone is FINE. It’s not even a PROBLEM but a GOOD THING.”
Happy happy happy.
So I’m primed to see it in other places, and in a show from halfway around the world released this year where abortion is legal, it’s more than unsettling. The main character, though a geneticist, is flighty, unbalanced and seems wildly incompetent. I suspect her “scientific theory” will be proven wrong by the end.
I’m still watching for now, but in a “is this as bad as I think” kind of way.
There is a desperate push in this country to minimize the damage done by republicans by getting rid of abortion protections. Most strikingly, what republicans don’t want to talk about is the fact that republicans effectively ended healthcare for pregnant people in many parts of this nation.
Post-Dobbs, states with restrictions have had an increase in maternal mortality. The data are likely very undercounted; women who don’t even try to seek care wouldn’t be included. We’ve all heard the stories of women banished to parking lots; women told to wait until they were dying; women dying while being shuffled around.
Whose life does that preserve?
Anyway, now you know, now you’ll see it for yourself. Our only way to restore humanhood to actual living, breathing women and girls and people who get pregnant is voting for Democrats, in every single race on the ballot. Republican created this subhuman status for us, it was no accident, it was a goal decades in the making.
We can undo it, too late for many but early enough to save even more.
Vote vote vote.
And with that, I wish you a wonderful Friday and a relaxing weekend.
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