The U. S. Criminalization of Abortion is a Human Rights Crisis.

Here’s a letter I sent to the United Nations via their online form.

One side of my Women’s March sign in January 2017 (“…as I am a woman, I have no country. As I am a woman, I want no country. As I am a woman, my country is the world.” — Virginia Woolf)

Dear United Nations,

There’s a human rights crisis in the United States: the criminalization of abortion and miscarriage. You need to declare it a human rights crisis.

I realize white people are accustomed to labeling brown countries “third world countries” — which comes across as archaic and racist nowadays. I hesitate to use the expression, but to use language we know: the United States is now a third-world nation with a minority of the extreme wealthy. Those stingy sociopathic billionaires are the excuse people still use to call the U. S. “the wealthiest nation in the world,” as though this gaslighting phrase still works.

The cruel criminalization of abortion in the U. S. (and by extension miscarriages, since misogynists refuse to believe women patients) are nothing less than a human rights crisis. You need to forget all that “but it’s a white country” nonsense and declare it a human rights crisis. The U. S. generally refuses to see white supremacist terrorists as terrorists only because they’re white.

Other countries, such as Mexico, Chile, Ireland, etc. have in recent years gotten over their abortion weirdness and made abortion legal, as it obviously should be…