Massachusetts signed a new law this week removing the state’s limits on abortion after 24 weeks. A doctor can now end a pregnancy at any point in the nine months, based on their own judgment alone, with no outside certification required.
Also this week, newly released text messages surfaced from Anthony Fauci’s government phone.
On January 25, 2021, Fauci wrote to then-CDC director Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Vivek Murthy that the fever and “cytokines storm” many people had after the second COVID vaccine dose “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”
Walensky called it “a good point.” Nine days later, Fauci told the public there were “no red flags” for pregnant women. Drug companies had not enrolled pregnant women in the original vaccine trials. Pregnant women were told to trust the public message.
Ater all this horrifying news, I only have one question:
What is a child worth in this country?
Set the Massachusetts law next to Europe, the region Americans are constantly told has the more humane abortion laws.
France allows abortion on request only through 14 weeks. Past that point, two physicians must certify a specific medical reason: danger to the mother’s life or health, or a severe, incurable fetal condition.
Sweden’s limit is 18 weeks.
The Netherlands, one of the most permissive countries in Europe, caps elective abortion at 24 weeks with medical review after.
Massachusetts just removed every one of those guardrails. Massachusetts now has one of the most permissive abortion laws anywhere in the world, more permissive than the European countries routinely held up as the model.
During COVID, children themselves were reframed as a public health risk. In January 2021, Andy Slavitt, a former top health official under two Democratic presidents, wrote on Twitter that children should circulate less or they would become vectors, comparing them to mosquitoes carrying tropical disease. Toddlers were pulled off planes for a mask slipping below the nose. Kids sat through school lunch being told to keep their masks on between bites.
Then schools reopened, and parents were not let back in the building. Parents who stood up at school board meetings to ask questions got filmed, mocked, and labeled domestic terrorists by their own school districts. We documented that fight in detail in 15 DAYS, our film on the years of school closures and tyranical restrictions, now streaming free to paid subscribers.
The same coercive logic showed up again in pediatric gender medicine. Parents raising concerns about a child’s rapid gender transition got handed the same ultimatum: “Do you want a live son or a dead daughter?” parents are still asked.
That exact phrase was used by a mother describing her own reasoning on WNYC’s Only Human in 2016, and Abigail Shrier documented gender therapists posing the same ultimatum directly to parents in Irreversible Damage. It left no room for a parent’s own judgment, and it used a parent’s love as the pressure point.
Dr. Kristopher Kaliebe, our Gender Toolkit co-author, has written about how major medical organizations built policy on that same ultimatum with little supporting evidence, and five countries have since walked their guidance back.
Doctors at Children’s Hospital Colorado have quietly refused to keep prescribing under a court order. Maia Poet’s own account of transitioning at 12 and coming back from it is one of the clearest firsthand records of what that ultimatum actually costs a child.
A state just removed every limit on ending a child’s life before birth. Public health officials lied to America about pregnancy risks when they forced the Covid-19 vaccine. A generation of kids were reduced to vectors and had years of their lives stolen. And parents have been told that children belong to the state not to their families (see President Biden clip at 1:40 below).
I want to know when this country stopped putting children first, and what a child is actually worth in America today.
In the womb.
At the school door.
In the exam room.
I am struggling with this question and I imagine you will too. Still we must have a reckoning if we are to survive as a nation.
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And pets have become defacto children, strollers, shoes, and homemade food..
I have thought for a long time that in the US, children are treated as expensive pets, approved of only for those who can afford them. People who just love kids need a lot of support from their friends because they won't get it from the wider society.