🌀ROE RECKONINGS: : This Week in Reproductive Rights Chaos

The hits keep coming — and we’re keeping receipts.

If it feels like every week brings a fresh assault on reproductive rights in the US — it’s because it does. From arresting people for miscarriages to pushing the death penalty for abortion, America’s war on bodily autonomy is escalating.

Here’s your no-nonsense roundup of what’s gone down this week:

🎭 Georgia’s Turning Pregnancy into a Crime (Again)

Georgia lawmakers are back at it, proposing a bill that would classify abortion as murder from the moment of fertilisation. It’s called the Prenatal Equal Protection Act — and yes, it could result in people being sentenced to death for having an abortion. Let that sink in.

The bill didn’t pass (this time), but the fact it was even seriously considered shows just how far the extremist agenda has gone.

🏛️ Planned Parenthood Is Under Siege

Anti-choice politicians are ramping up pressure to cut Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, using a Supreme Court case from South Carolina as their wedge.

If the Court rules in favour of the state, it could open the floodgates for other conservative states to block access to basic reproductive healthcare — including STI testing, cancer screenings, and contraception.

And just to be clear: abortion makes up less than 5% of Planned Parenthood’s services. But facts rarely get in the way of a good moral panic.

👶 “Fetal Personhood” Bills Are the New Weapon

Across the US, lawmakers are introducing bills that would give legal rights to embryos — laying the groundwork to criminalise not only abortion, but potentially IVF and miscarriage as well.

Since Trump’s executive order declaring only two biological sexes “from conception” (we wish we were joking), over 27 personhood bills have surfaced in 14 states. These bills are designed to sneak anti-abortion policies in through the back door — and they’re gaining traction.

🧾 Illinois Gets Sued for… Protecting Rights?

In Illinois, a new law bans discrimination based on someone’s reproductive health choices — like having an abortion or using birth control. Sensible, right?

Apparently not. A Catholic diocese and anti-abortion group are now suing the state, claiming the law infringes on their religious freedom because it might force them to employ someone who doesn’t share their anti-choice beliefs. So basically: “we want the right to fire someone for taking the pill.”

🧨 Georgia Woman Arrested for Miscarriage

In what might be the most chilling story of the week: a 24-year-old woman in Georgia was arrested after having a miscarriage. She’s being charged with “concealing a death” and “abandoning a body” because she put the fetal remains in a bin.

Let’s be clear: there is no law — in Georgia or any other US state — that dictates how someone must handle fetal remains after a miscarriage. It was a private, tragic moment. The police made it a criminal case.

Even after an autopsy confirmed it was a natural miscarriage, the charges remain. And yes, her mugshot was plastered across local news. This is what happens when you criminalise pregnancy.

🚨 The Takeaway

This isn’t some hypothetical dystopia — it’s happening now. In courts. In hospitals. In headlines. This week’s news makes it painfully clear: abortion access is under siege, and pregnancy itself is being policed.

But we’re not going anywhere. We’re louder. We’re angrier. We’re more united than ever.

This Roe Reckonings? It’s not the end — it’s the beginning of a fight we intend to win.