What cannot be banned outright is slowly strangled by regulation and delay: Behind the euphemism of “safety” lies a calculated attempt to roll back freedom of choice.
Could there be still another facet to this form of deprivation of a woman’s choice?
In reading a true account of a family’s life in the early 1940s, taking place in Germany, I have learned that baby boys, who were born in certain hospitals, were taken from their mothers. The mothers sometimes were told that their babies did not live, but some of them knew better. There are more details, and I am still reading the book. However, it seems that the intention might have been to build an army for the future by increasing the ongoing population of future trainees. Considering all that is happening now, I cannot help but wonder if there is a parallel in what is being forced on women as well as in their deprivations. I hope I am wrong and that we can regain the medical truth and care in whatever categories of needs our population has.
That’s a powerful and sobering connection you’re making. History shows us over and over that when authoritarian regimes want control...they go straight for the bodies of women and children. They regulate reproduction, they twist family life into state policy...and they lie about it in the name of “nation building.”
I don’t think you’re wrong to see echoes. Forced birth...attacks on medical care...and stripping women of choice are never just about “morality.”
They’re about power...control...and shaping the future population in service of a political machine. That’s why the parallels to the 1930s and ’40s hit so hard right now...because those same tools are being pulled off the shelf again.
The only way back is exactly what you named: truth...care...and vigilance. And that means speaking the history out loud...the way you just did here...so nobody can say later that we “didn’t see it coming.”
Another assault on women... of course
Definitely!
Could there be still another facet to this form of deprivation of a woman’s choice?
In reading a true account of a family’s life in the early 1940s, taking place in Germany, I have learned that baby boys, who were born in certain hospitals, were taken from their mothers. The mothers sometimes were told that their babies did not live, but some of them knew better. There are more details, and I am still reading the book. However, it seems that the intention might have been to build an army for the future by increasing the ongoing population of future trainees. Considering all that is happening now, I cannot help but wonder if there is a parallel in what is being forced on women as well as in their deprivations. I hope I am wrong and that we can regain the medical truth and care in whatever categories of needs our population has.
That’s a powerful and sobering connection you’re making. History shows us over and over that when authoritarian regimes want control...they go straight for the bodies of women and children. They regulate reproduction, they twist family life into state policy...and they lie about it in the name of “nation building.”
I don’t think you’re wrong to see echoes. Forced birth...attacks on medical care...and stripping women of choice are never just about “morality.”
They’re about power...control...and shaping the future population in service of a political machine. That’s why the parallels to the 1930s and ’40s hit so hard right now...because those same tools are being pulled off the shelf again.
The only way back is exactly what you named: truth...care...and vigilance. And that means speaking the history out loud...the way you just did here...so nobody can say later that we “didn’t see it coming.”
-Jack