Since the US Supreme Court disbanded the abortion protections in Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022, women in America have been left with few options if they are unable to carry a pregnancy to term.
I am thinking now of the Salem witch "trials" where women (mostly women) were subjected to kangaroo-court like proceedings designed to find them guilty of witchcraft and kill them. This current environment is little different, with morally superior beings using religion to punish people they don't believe are moral. It's some 400 years later and the poison of religious righteousness has never been eradicated from this country. It may, in fact, be much stronger than ever. It's humilating to be a citizen of this country when we are on the brink of religious authoritarianism that some of the founders of the country fled.
I am thinking now of the Salem witch "trials" where women (mostly women) were subjected to kangaroo-court like proceedings designed to find them guilty of witchcraft and kill them. This current environment is little different, with morally superior beings using religion to punish people they don't believe are moral. It's some 400 years later and the poison of religious righteousness has never been eradicated from this country. It may, in fact, be much stronger than ever. It's humilating to be a citizen of this country when we are on the brink of religious authoritarianism that some of the founders of the country fled.