Reproductive Rights

TOY PLOY

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by Alexander Sanger

The latest ploy from those who want to criminalize abortion came this week in North Dakota (yes, that state — the one that recently passed a law banning abortions after six weeks). Perhaps frustrated by a federal judge summarily striking down the law as blatantly unconstitutional, the anti-choice folks at Heritage House distributed rubber fetus dolls — or “Precious Ones” — in candy packs that were handed out to children at the North Dakota State Fair. This North Dakota Happy Meal prize was intended to convince children of the sanctity of life and to dissuade them (at age five) from terminating any pregnancies down the road.
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Shakespeare or Stein? An Abortion in El Salvador for Beatrix

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by Alexander Sanger

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2, by William Shakespeare.

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” Sacred Emily, by Gertrude Stein.

Beatriz got her abortion, and her life was saved. The fetus-child-baby (you choose) that she was carrying was dead before the procedure was carried out. What is the name for a dead fetus still in utero? And what is the name for removing this dead fetus from the mother before it kills her? What is in a name?
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