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What she says: I’m fine
What she means: Why isn’t it taught that abortion was perfectly legal in the US in early 1870s and it wasn’t until a Jewish doctor, who was being framed, was put on trial for manslaughter (a trial, as well as the press covering it, which was greatly tinged with antisemitism) that opened the floodgates for antiabortion crusaders which eventually led to its criminalization?
I did not know this!
Me neither, until I read this book.
Look at the notes for the name of the book if anyone else is interested.
The book is called Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press. By Eddy Portnoy
Other recommended books in the notes that talk about this are:
The Moral Property of Sex by Linda Gordon
Rereading Sex by Helen Horowitz
Killing For Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-Life Politics by Carol Mason goes into some detail on this.
The more militant elements of the anti-choice movement have their roots in white nationalism. It’s white babies they wanted to save. It was Jewish doctors they blamed. The Holocaust baiting was basically a dogwhistle for white genocide.
At Mount fuji
Forget the rest of the fireworks around the world, these are the best. HNY.
I’m so high right now and this was crazy amazing. I can’t even describe it.
u ever wake up from a dream like “damn i guess i’m not coping with THAT as well as i thought i was”
“Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people.”
— Osho
(via minuty)
“I remember people’s auras almost better than their faces.”
— T.S. Eliot, from Poems & Plays: 1909 - 1950; “The Family Reunion,”
sorry
