Maybe they can re-open the lunatic asylums for this purpose
If you were wondering where the radical right is going in the post-Roe world, here it is:
[A]s we await a likely Supreme Court decision overturning Roe, here is a sign of what will follow: A Heritage Foundation mediocrity touting a “thoughtful proposal” to commit women who have abortions to “mandatory psychiatric custody”
I have not seen any polling on this but I strongly suspect “mandatory psychiatric custody” for women who have abortions would be pretty unpopular and would suggest that perhaps Democrats would do well to sound the alarm about this consequence of Republican rule.
btw this isn’t some random dude endorsing “mandatory psychiatric custody” for women, it’s a Director at the Heritage Foundation — the most important right-wing think-tank of the last 50 years.
Every Republican candidate should be asked about this.
[A]lso just a casual reminder that the Republican Party cannot be the party of small government if it is also the party of involuntary psychiatric custody for women who make decisions it doesn’t like, and journalists who persist in describing it as the former are lying.
One reason our political/electoral environment tends to be dominated by things like right-wing lies about CRT and crime is that our biggest media companies are conservative.
Another is that conservatives constantly peddle that BS, and progressives don’t bother saying true things
Originally tweeted by Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) on June 20, 2022.
He’s not exaggerating:
Sure, that’s fine.
Here’s how some asylums handled the crazy women in the past. No reason it can’t work again:
In the 19th century, women who exhibited sexual desire and strong emotions were diagnosed with the medical condition “hysteria.” From 1968 to 1870, the formative years of the Athens Lunatic Asylum, 132 female patients were deemed insane due to similarly “issues,” including “menstrual derangements.” The asylum’s treatment for these women included freezing, shocking, kicking, and in some cases, lobotomizing said patients to rid them of their sickness. One such patient, Margaret Schilling, is said to still haunt the asylum. In an attempt to escape, Schilling had hid in the attic, and ultimately died of starvation there. They say the stain her decomposing corpse left behind on the floor can’t be scrubbed clean.