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Thursday, October 25th, 2018

The Health Department’s Christian Crusade

Author:     TESSA STUART
Source:     Rollingstone
Publication Date:     OCTOBER 24, 2018 11:11AM ET
 Link: The Health Department’s Christian Crusade
Stephan:   If you have been reading me regularly you know I have been tracking how the christofascists are attempting to gain control of the government from the inside, and to implement policies that reflect their mental disorders concerning women, guns, and greed. They use the religious protections and tax advantages provided by the Constitution to create the anti-democratic authoritarian christofascist political movement.  This essay lays out how they are trying to restructure women's health care. Millions of docile submissive White women I know will vote Republican in 13 days. As a result their life-spans will be shorter, and they will die more often delivering children, as will their babies, and their children won't get the education they would wish they could but, I am afraid, I cannot feel sorry for them. There is no cure for willful ignorance.

Credit: lllustration by Brian Stauffer

It was dusk on a Friday in March 2017, and the women’s health clinic in San Antonio was mostly deserted, except for a nurse finishing some end-of-the-week paperwork, when the phone rang. The man on the other end of the line introduced himself as Dr. Meyerstein with the Office of Refugee Resettlement in Washington, D.C., the agency charged with the temporary care of children apprehended while crossing the border alone.

Earlier that day, the clinic had given a 17-year-old girl the first dose of a medication abortion — a regimen that requires two sets of pills to be taken at least 24 but no more than 48 hours apart. Meyerstein wanted to know what would happen if the girl didn’t take her second dose.

The nurse knew the patient he was asking about: petite, shy, brown hair and a face that looked younger than the age on her chart. A chaperone from the government-funded shelter where she was being held accompanied her to the appointment.

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