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   Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 01:06:00 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

   The anti-abortion crusade (because that’s what it is: a pre-modern overtly violent Christian campaign to conquer The Others™) is a vestigial throwback to ancient Roman policy of “partus sequitur ventrem” which became English common law, and the American colonies adapted it to weaponize sexual violence against people who were considered property (i.e. chattel slaves).

   https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/21/legal-strategy-that-could-topple-abortion-bans-00102468

   #historynerd @histodons #AmericanCulture #lawfare #Crusades #religion #violence #partussequiturventrem

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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 01:05:58 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     • Carolyn

     @CStamp @histodons
     Indeed.

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     Carolyn (cstamp@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 01:05:59 JST Carolyn

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     @paninid @histodons I was horrified when seeing a clip of that debate of abysmal humans. I realized they don't want to reduce the need to abort (sex-ed, access to contraception, access to life-saving health care for women), they want girls and women pregnant and forced to deliver or die for a baby market.

     tinydoctor repeated this.
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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 00:20:49 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     • mxk

     @mxk @CStamp @histodons
     The objective of the genre of dystopian works is to warn, satirize, and be generally subversive.

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     mxk (mxk@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 00:20:51 JST mxk

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     • Carolyn

     @paninid @CStamp @histodons this should be stated explicitly today, given that there are significant groups claiming the literal wording of this image.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 00:20:52 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     • mxk

     @mxk @CStamp @histodons
     My takeaway was that each of these circles was a warning, NOT a how-to manual.

     Others had differing interpretations.

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     mxk (mxk@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 00:20:53 JST mxk

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     • Carolyn

     @paninid @CStamp @histodons No we are not.
     Societies might be on a bad direction in some regards, especially in terms of growing digital surveillance, but claiming that our current reality would be in any way close to those dystopian books is bogus.
     This is feeding into the alt-right narratives that we see being floated by groups like the "Querdenker" in Germany and is in general not helpful.