Abort Alabama

I just don't know what to say. There are no words when Republicans think of women as "hosts" instead of human beings. When miscarriages are going to be treated as murder. When rhetoric of the standing President of the United States lies and tells people that Pro-Choice people kill born, viable babies. There is nothing to say when women are raped and threatened with jail if their rapists are not found guilty. There is a DEAFENING silence when the impregnator- consensual or not- faces no repercussions but women are threatened with prison or death.

It's not surprise. It's not shock. I and many others have been warning about this for years. It is that the small rays of hope that we used to have are getting smaller. The chorus of people telling us, "people are basically good! You're just spreading doom and gloom!" is getting more quiet.

Women are going to suffer. Women are going to die. Remember Savita Halappanavar. Remember that women have miscarriages at a higher rate than births. Remember that abortions are needed to complete many miscarriages. But no, women aren't equal citizens (remember the Equal Rights Amendment did not pass). We are not equal people.

I can't even watch The Handmaid's Tale. It's too real. It's barely fiction. It may not even be fiction for long. It is Too. Damned. Much.

I drew this in crayon last year as a study for a painting. The painting never happened. Sometimes if I do a good enough job with the study, it kills my desire to undertake the full painting.

It's not surprise. It's not shock. It's disappointment watching the death of a civilized world.