They only care about being "in charge" - even though most of them have zero medical knowledge or compassion.

Obviously the potential mother did or took something that caused her to lose the baby.

And some aren't ignorant. They are just sick, evil, controlling, abusive aholes.

do to cause that to happen to you?"

It's always the womans fault

We just have to watch their kubuki dance on sufferance

These are issues that must be decided between a woman and her doctor - and nobody else.

Make no mistake, these zealots come from a place of misogyny and have zero regard for the lives of women and girls.

and never really was apparently. It is about controlling women.

I shudder to think what these people would have done to me when I had a miscarriage in the 1970s. Or even earlier when I'd had a D&C because of an infection not pregnancy related. America has become a very dangerous place for women of childbearing age.

I'm so grateful my daughters are safe here in New York State.

Years ago I watched the 1990 movie "The Handmaid's Tale". It totally unnerved me to such a point that I couldn't watch the TV series or read the book.

There was a part of me that knew such sentiments existed among certain segments of society and under the right circumstances, it could become reality. I'd already experienced it in smaller ways over the years and "The Handmaid's Tale" showed me where things could go if left unchecked.