Thank You for Caring That Abortion Bans Make Women 2nd Class Citizens
A huge thank you to my subscribers and readers for understanding that the war on women's repro rights is part of a bigger war on women.
First of all I want to say thank you to all my subscribers to this Your Body, Your Choice Substack. I really appreciate that you care about women having the right to control their own bodies.
I appreciate that you have been reading my pieces about how Donald Trump and Republicans lawmakers have robbed women of their most personal of rights in almost half the country.
I appreciate that you see that the right to make your own decisions about your bodies is essential to being an equal citizen here in America. After all, if Donald Trump, the Supreme Court and Republican state legislators, can take away women’s right to make those decisions, then how can they be equal?
When you think about it, if you are a woman lying in a hospital emergency room with a potentially fatal pregnancy complication or miscarriage and you are legally prevented from receiving life saving care, how can you possibly be an equal citizen?
Pregnant women like Amanda Zurawski of Texas, Amber Thurman of Georgia, Kyleigh Thurman and Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz, both of Texas, all begged doctors to please, please help them with their potentially lethal complications, but they were all denied until they nearly died.
Amber did die.
However, if you were a man hemorrhaging from a wound or some kind of internal organ damage, you’d be rushed into surgery ASAP.
The top priority would be to save your life.
But if you are miscarrying as a woman in almost 20 states today, even if your fetus no longer has a heartbeat, treatment will be delayed and delayed, as doctors struggle to decide if you are close enough to death to intervene.
How about if your water breaks at 15, 17 or 19 weeks - far too early for your baby to survive. In many states, you will be forced to wait until a lethal sepsis infection sickens you before doctors can end your pregnancy and save your life.
How can this be OK in America? How can women be equal citizens if American law deprives them of their right to “life”?
And if they die, from a pregnancy complication - as if they were living in the America of the19th century, when women still routinely passed away from childbirth complications - then their doctors face zero legal repercussions.
A pregnant woman’s life is worth nothing under the law today in almost 20 states.
On the other hand, if an empathetic OBGYN does act too soon and provides a woman with a D&C ( dilation and curettage) or D&E (dilation and evacuation) procedure to stop them from bleeding out or to remove a deathly infection from their uterus, they can go to jail for 99 years in Texas, for 15 years in Tennessee, for 15 years in Louisiana and for 5 years in Idaho.
Doctors are far more legally incentivized to let a pregnant woman die rather than save their life in the abortion ban states.
Sounds crazy here in 2025, but it’s true.
At least 5 young, formerly healthy women in Georgia and Texas are already documented to have died thanks to their state’s abortion ban.
I appreciate that you, my subscribers, think that this is wrong, just as I do.
What are we? Just nothing?
And it could get worse on Jan 20 when Donald Trump, JD Vance and Project 2025 are all sworn into office.
As I’ve written about here, Project 2025 outlines multiple ways to end abortion nationwide without the hard work of actually having to convince Congress to pass legislation banning it.
It won’t be too difficult under Project 2025 for Trump and JD Vance to ensure that 51% of the country will instantly all become 2nd class citizens with no say over their bodies.
And that will include, banning or withdrawing most of the effective methods of birth control too.
Yup, American women will be sentenced to pregnancy but with no right to life if those pregnancies go wrong.
Sorry to sound like a major Debbie Downer. But I do think the War on Women is deliberate and it’s goal is to put women back in their historically second class place.
Despite Trump’s election, I still don’t believe that most American women want that. But they need to wake up and see the reality that they are facing.
I’ll keep writing about it as this year unfolds. All the latest news in the war on women’s repro rights and also about how individual women and their loved ones have been affected by it.
Thank you so much for subscribing, reading and sharing my posts.
I remain hopeful that as American women get personally affected by these laws and experience how they are being disrespected, they will decide that they must stand up for themselves and their daughters and granddaughters.
And the only way to do that will be at the state and Congressional ballot boxes in 2026 and at the presidential ballot box in 2028.
So come on people, we can do this.
Thank you again for your support and I wish you and your loved ones a very healthy and personally fulfilling new year!
Bonnie