Thom HartmannThere’s a shocking parallel between today’s Republican anti-abortion movement and the witch hunts of the 17th century. It has to do with both economics and political competition and is all about men achieving power on the backs of women.
Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴@ThomHartmann
"In the late 1500s and early 1600s, women who performed abortions or provided birth control were most of the early victims of witch hunts because children were a source of cheap labor for the feudal lords, who essentially owned their serfs and their children."
I often say the same dynamics are at play today as the billionaires and their purchased legislators & judges know that keeping a constant flow of ignorant serfs is critical to their power. Abortion stands in their way.
@ThomHartmann *abortion AND good education
Infosec V'ger@Nonya_Bidniss @ThomHartmann See also relaxing of child labor laws
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Men are No Longer Burning Women at the Stake - They're Now Killing Them By "Big Government"
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“#Abortion legalization reduced the number of women who became #TeenMothers by 34% and the number who became #TeenBrides by 20%... [L]egalization reduced #MaternalMortality among #Black women by 30-40%..”
I have not checked on the correlation of economic growth and the number of witch hunts referenced in the #HartmanReport...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/men-are-no-longer-burning-women-at
@ThomHartmann
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..but the assumptions otherwise sound plausible OFC, now limited to the #US in geography.
This report fits in with my #thread on the detrimental strategy of #Reagonomics regarding college education
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592
Of course the pompous #GreatReplacementTheory (#GRT), though the term was coined by French conspiracy novelist, #RenaudCamus, in his 2011 novel "Le Grand #Remplacement", dates back to the works of two other #French intellectuals from the 19th century,..
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..Maurice #Barrès and Charles #Maurras were the main thinkers of ethnic #nationalism in the second half of the 19th century.
Background:
"Five states had legalized abortion prior to the Roe decision: in addition to Reagan’s California, the procedure was also available in Alaska, Hawaii, New York, and Washington state. As researchers found comparing statistics from those states with similar states where abortion was still criminalized prior to 1974..."
In any case, as...
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...I have long been saying, if you have family members of childbearing age or belong to the LGBTQIA+ community and live in a #RedState, move out if you can.
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RiaResists@HistoPol @ThomHartmann exactly. If the pro-life cult was actually a movement they would consider evidence.
And they would support women, children. Not guns & attacking vulnerable individuals.
And they would support women, children. Not guns & attacking vulnerable individuals.
You were right yesterday.
It predates even the 18th century: