The Trump administration kills children abroad while being ‘pro-life’ at home |
How many children has the US helped kill this week in the Middle East? It’s hard to keep track, but Unicef reports that more than 1,800 children in the region have been killed or injured since the US and Israel started a war with Iran on 28 February.
In Lebanon, a US-backed Israel is killing or wounding a classroom’s worth of children every day, Unicef’s deputy executive director told Reuters. That’s just after killing more than 20,000 children in Gaza in two years, all with the help of US taxpayer dollars.
Classrooms full of massacred children sounds pretty shocking to any normal person. But remember, when it comes to the Middle East, the situation is always complicated. Certainly, our lawmakers aren’t losing any sleep over dead brown kids.
“I’m willing to live with that report,” Donald Trump shrugged after being informed the US was responsible for bombing an elementary school in Iran. And, to be fair, dead American schoolchildren don’t seem to bother many of our politicians much either; not enough to do anything about school shootings anyway.
No, the lives that really matter for the party of family values, as we all know, are the ones that haven’t actually started yet. Ever since Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022, emboldened anti-abortion extremists have been doing everything they can to punish any woman who so much thinks about ending a pregnancy.
In the two years after Roe fell, prosecutors initiated at least 412 cases charging pregnant people with pregnancy-related crimes, the reproductive justice group Pregnancy Justice found.
The latest alarming example of this ongoing crusade to criminalize abortion comes from Georgia, where 31-year-old Alexia Moore was recently charged with murder after allegedly taking pills to induce an illegal termination.
If prosecutors move forward with the charge brought by local police, it will be one of the first cases of a woman being charged for terminating a pregnancy in Georgia since it passed a 2019 law banning most abortions after around six weeks. (A woman was charged in 2015 with murder after inducing an abortion by taking pills but that was later dropped.) Women in states including Texas, South Carolina........