In a strong anti-abortion state, your wife or daughter can be jailed for having a miscarriage. I wonder how any man or woman can vote Republican when it can lead to such consequences. If she becomes pregnant from rape or incest, she will most likely be forced to carry the child to term–a cancer she is not allowed to treat. Men for the most part are responsible for such inhumane laws even though they are in the minority.

That religion or misguided masculinity can lead to these results in a strong mandate against women.

Michelle Obama spoke of the consequences of strong anti-abortion laws for women who have never considered having an abortion:

We will see more doctors hesitating or shying away from providing lifesaving treatments because they are worried about being arrested; more medical students reconsidering even pursuing women’s health at all; more OB-GYN clinics without enough doctors to meet demand, closing their doors, leaving untold numbers of women in communities throughout this country without a place to go for basic gynecological care, which in turn will leave millions of us at risk of undiagnosed medical issues like cervical and uterine cancers. This is real. – Michigan Speech

And yet, this is what we voted for, and there’s nothing but shame in doing so.

–Malcolm