The News Agents special report this week

[theDudesmummy]

I can't see a thread on this, apologies if there is one. This week's special episode of the News Agents is on the abortion issue in the US. It is engraging in parts, I got very angry, but very enlightening, I thought.

I've only been able to listen to half before I had to turn it off. Horrifying stuff, a theocracy indeed in Florida (from what I've heard so far).

The impact of these laws is enormously detrimental to women in affected states. It impacts obstetric and gynae services for ALL the women living there because no one wants to practice OBGYN there.

edition.cnn.com/2024/08/05/us/iowa-abortion-ban-maternity-care/index.html

The part (in the second half) about the "clinics" claiming (falsely and dangerously) that they can "reverse abortion" was to me even more shocking than the dreadful religious fanatics in the first half.

CNN reporting on an issue that exclusively affects...people.

The doctors commenting on the problem use accurate language. They spell out the harms this legislation causes to women, girls, mothers.

It's an appallingly misogynistic piece of legislation.