Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "Why Do Republicans Want Women Dead?" video.
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How ironic it was when you said that about Mitt Romney dissing public healthcare that he was the one leading the charge in 2020 against putting the Equal Rights Amendment into the Constitution after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it, on the grounds of the ridiculous deadline having passed. Although we, the public, didn’t know it yet, Congress must have heard that SCOTUS was about to overturn Roe v. Wade, which they did just a few months later. I came to the realization that the Conservatives didn’t want to put the ERA into the Constitution because they could not then have overturned Roe if they had done so, and they were hellbent on killing abortion access (along with women).
Thom, I have an idea: we have heard that maternal and infant mortality rates have gone up since the Dobbs decision, which means that women HAVE died because they couldn’t access life-saving abortions, yet we have never heard the names of ANY woman who has died that way, although we have read stories about living women who went public about being denied one (like Kate Cox and others). In Ireland, the woman you mentioned was named Savita Halappanaver, and the point is that we know her name, and her photo is out there. We don’t know the names of any American women who have died. Even though Ireland is an almost exclusively Catholic country, millions of people marched and demonstrated in the streets, carrying posters with her name and photos of her face on them. The demonstrations were large enough and long enough that Ireland finally caved and made abortions legal there. It was huge! If we could get the names and photos of American women who have died because they were denied abortion care, perhaps we could do the same here. Would you know how we could go about getting those names and photos? I think it is only by showing a number of real American women who have literally died here, we could change things. I’m going to ask Jessica Valenti , too. I’m one of her subscribers, and she’s also great!
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