Like it's one thing if you want to work through the ethical problem of forcing women with multiple kids to be medicated for the sake of the greater social good (given that it's highly gendered and disproportionately punitive to the poor), but you tip your hand when you equate birth control to sterilization and genocide the way these fundamentalists do.
Plus the ominous tone is honestly almost comical. Why not just go the whole way and say, after being drugged, several of the women were even purported to crave unhealthy foods and be excessively irritatable, as if the unknown serum had certain mind-altering properties.
If you scroll down in the article I think you can even find an artist rendering of one of the victims: Victim of Communism
Like it's one thing if you want to work through the ethical problem of forcing women with multiple kids to be medicated for the sake of the greater social good (given that it's highly gendered and disproportionately punitive to the poor), but you tip your hand when you equate birth control to sterilization and genocide the way these fundamentalists do.
Plus the ominous tone is honestly almost comical. Why not just go the whole way and say, after being drugged, several of the women were even purported to crave unhealthy foods and be excessively irritatable, as if the unknown serum had certain mind-altering properties.
If you scroll down in the article I think you can even find an artist rendering of one of the victims: Victim of Communism