Forensic Vagina Specialist (audio)

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 1:06 PM on April 6, 2006.

When abortion is criminalized...

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This Sunday's New York Times Magazine cover story will be a profile of a nation 8 years into the complete and total criminalization of abortion. No rape clause, no life of the mother clause. Nothing.

Air America's Rachel Maddow (if you don't listen to her you don't know what you're missing) interviews one of my favorite journalists Jack Hitt on his cover story (click orange buttons to listen or download).

What you find is a nation in a near-Handmaid's Tale dystopia where a mother of three is imprisoned for 30 years, where a woman must wait until her ectopic pregnancy bursts in her fallopian tubes to get surgery, where the mother of a pregnant woman can be prosecuted for giving aid and comfort to her daughter before, during or after an illegal abortion.

The title of this post? The folks who check vaginas for evidence of an abortion procedure. It's real.

Absolutely chilling. After you listen to the interview here, please go listen to Rachel Maddow every morning here. (Rachel Maddow)

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Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.

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Dear Lord! [Report this comment] Posted by: jane on Apr 6, 2006 1:30 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Oops...I calling to the wrong Lord. Apparently he's the one so obsessed with the women's uteruses that HE made, so now he has appointed men to spend some time digging into women, first with their sexual organs, then with warrants, then with forensic instruments. And to think that the church behind this sick law doesn't allow their priests to marry but looks the other way while the same men fondle boys. This is so so so sick... [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] OMG... [Report this comment] Posted by: mmeetoilenoir on Apr 6, 2006 2:43 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] This is sick. I don't even know what to say. I think I won't say anything. Burqa, burqa, anyone? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Let's hope this is not a foreshadowing of things to come... [Report this comment] Posted by: Smirk on Apr 6, 2006 7:52 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ...because imposing such restrictions here would be a dream come true for a large segment of the GOP's base. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Let's hope this is not a foreshadowing of things to come... Posted by: howmad1 The Straussian Republican Theocracy's supremacy [Report this comment] Posted by: wli on Apr 7, 2006 2:36 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Rest assured that the Republicans will be imprisoning and executing atheists, witches, and homosexuals as well. Not sure what they've got in mind for Jews (my guess is deportation to Israel unless they convert to Christianity), but Muslims are doubtless scheduled to be dealt with in like fashion. I don't see any way around it. Their fanaticism has endowed them with superhuman abilities to impose their disgusting, twisted "morality" on anyone and everyone they choose. The fundies are unstoppable. It's going to be like Katrina: get out if you can, while you can, not that there's anywhere to go. It doesn't really matter of they can be checked in the end. I will not live to see the end of this. For me, the fundie/neocon/theocon supremacy may as well be eternal. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: The Straussian Republican Theocracy's supremacy Posted by: kablooie » RE: The Straussian Republican Theocracy's supremacy Posted by: Jim Pivonka like it used to be [Report this comment] Posted by: soshea on Apr 7, 2006 11:39 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] My mother was born in 1929. Her mother became pregnant again almost immediately, just after the Depression began. Fearing that they could not afford another baby, she took ergot, which she had gotten from her sister, and hemorrhaged to death at the age of 24. That has had consequences that have reached down through the generations. This is how it was, and this is how it will be again if the Holy Rollers have their way. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: like it used to be Posted by: kablooie » RE: like it used to be Posted by: everywoman South Dakota [Report this comment] Posted by: kablooie on Apr 7, 2006 12:22 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] At least the brave Native American tribal leader (a woman!) will provide medical care for women. It's going to take a lot of brave women to fight for our civil rights, basic human rights of privacy and individual freedom. How can we be future criminals as soon as we're born? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Terror [Report this comment] Posted by: molotov on Aug 21, 2006 2:36 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] El Salvador is a surreal nightmare for women. How can Amnesty International ignore this situation?! I feel sickened, something should be done!!! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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