Tuesday Top of Mind 4/23/24-every week is a fresh bouquet of WTF

Every day brings a fresh WTF. No, this is not a positive thing.

I could explain what WTF means… but I won’t. Let’s just say it is nothing positive. It could mean where’s the flowers but sadly it does not.

Every week there is a new atrocity against women.

Every week there is a new idea from MEN about how to be cruel to women.

Why?

I think a large part of it is fear. They are afraid of the rights and privileges that we are demanding. Like the right of bodily autonomy, of making decisions about our body.

Like the right to a bank account.

Like the right not to fawn over them and make their world better at the expense of our own.

The newest case before the Supreme Court is a symptom.

In 1986 Ronald Reagan signed the EMTALA law.

This is a law that demands that hospitals treat patients in emergency situations. With or without the ability to pay.

And these yahoos in Idaho have decided that this means that women who are dying of a miscarriage don’t deserve emergency treatment. Because the emergency treatment for the treatment of a miscarriage is the removal of the doomed pregnancy. Before the woman, you know, dies or suffers irreparable harm to her fertility.

But no, these assholes would rather make a political point that they think allows them to stay in power.

In just the past week there have been many articles about women in Texas, and Idaho, and North Carolina and Florida who have been turned away from emergency rooms. Because they aren’t sick enough and their life isn’t in jeopardy enough.

Women are suffering. The potential child is suffering.

But, sure, make your political point with the blood of these women and see what happens.

Cruelty is the point indeed.

Another WTF in our current affair bouquet is the Illinois case where a nonverbal disabled woman was assaulted in a longterm care home. When? No one knows. But she was discovered to be pregnant. At THIRTY THREE weeks along. Trust me when I write that she had zero capacity to consent. The who attacked her and sexually assaulted her should be in jail.

Cruelty is the point.

Control of women is the point.

They won’t stop at Roe.

So many WTFs in the bouquet.

Oh, goodie, and tonight is a full moon.