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In A HANDMAID’S TALE (1985), Canadian writer Margaret Atwood described the totalitarian, dystopian kingdom of Gilead, a future theocratic state which has replaced the USA. Because of dangerously low reproductive rates, handmaids are assigned the task of bearing the children of elite couples who have trouble conceiving.
Now, it seems, we have a variation on this chilling theme. Women in certain red states who become pregnant may be forced to carry the pregnancy to term, regardless the risks (to baby and/or to mother).
In my stack of today’s incoming e-mails appeared this news item:
This seems the logical way.
Fortunately, Ms. Cox seems to have the means to accomplish her goal.
Unfortunately, some of her fellow sisters may not. Their options may be more limited than hers.
My first reaction when learning of this was perhaps similar to American comedian Groucho Marx, who opined: “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”
In other words, Ms. Cox apparently feels unwelcome in TX as regards her medical care.
At least this aspect of her medical care.
And, given the stark position Ken Paxton, TX attorney general, has taken on abortion in general and in her case in particular, who…
