Let’s stop pretending this is about life.
This administration — and the extremist forces backing it — are doing something far more sinister. They are killing off the poor to replace them with controllable pawns. They’re not just banning abortion. They are criminalizing struggle, punishing resistance, and building a future where only the obedient get to survive.

Forced Birth Is Not About Babies — It’s About Power

They want us to believe this is about morality or faith. But look closer.

They ban abortion even in cases of rape or threat to the mother.
They target doctors, threaten helpers, and encourage neighbors to snitch.
They defund social programs, starve communities, and block healthcare.

Then they turn around and say, “Why aren’t women having more children?”

The truth is, they don’t want healthy families — they want desperate bodies. People with no choice but to serve, produce, and obey. This isn’t about a population crisis. It’s about control.

The Poor Are Disposable. The Obedient Are Profitable.

Let’s say it plainly:
They are killing off the poor to replace them with controllable pawns.

Every policy they push — from abortion bans, medicaid cuts, SNAP cuts, SSI cuts to voter suppression — targets those with the least. Poor women. Black and brown families. Rural workers. LGBTQ+ youth. They are stripping our autonomy while crafting a society where only the children of the wealthy are safe, and the rest are born to serve.

This is the logic of forced birth:
Keep the wealthy elite insulated, while the rest of us become vessels for their economy and ideology.

From Prison Cells to Wombs for Hire: The Handmaid Vision

We’re not guessing where this leads — Margaret Atwood already warned us.

When the state controls your reproduction, you’re no longer a person. You’re a tool.

Imagine a future where imprisoned women are forced to carry pregnancies for the rich. Or where fertility becomes a condition of parole. Where “voluntary surrogacy” programs mask state-sponsored breeding farms.

It’s not science fiction anymore. It’s draft legislation.

We Refuse to Be Replaced or Ruled

They are going to be killing off the poor to replace them with controllable pawns.
But we’re still here. We’re still fighting. And we are not silent.

At Rescue Our Democracy, we organize against this cruelty.
We call it out, we rise up, and we protect each other.

If you feel rage, you’re not alone. If you feel fear, channel it. Because silence now only speeds the future they’re building.

Join us. Speak up. Push back.
We are not pawns. We are not breeders.
We are the resistance.

#RescueOurDemocracy
#ForcedBirthIsTyranny
#WeWontBeHandmaids
#KillingOffThePoor

Not all that long ago, I posted an open letter to our Senators, Grassley and Ernst.

You can read it below.

I would like to share with you, my responses.

Let me tell you…they were both surprises.

Joni Endst, really surprised me, because at the time, I thought maybe we could still get through to her.

My thoughts are important? REEEAAAALLY, now? Perhaps she will really read the letter fully and give an actual response. But for now, I feel brushed off…as most Iowans do.

HOLY IOWA COWS!

Now here’s my huge surprise. My response from Chuck Grassley (Yes, I used his real name here and not my nickname for him, because he (or his team) was respectful here.)

I feel that this wasn’t a blanket response. I feel that my letter was actually read. Perhaps because it’s displayed publicly on a site.

Thank you Senator Chuck Grassley, for your response. I admit, I have been particularly hard on you and your grandson in the past because of frustrations with policies.

I’d prefer calling you by your real name and not my nickname for you, please keep the rest of us in mind, before taking an ax to our healthcare and other needs. Otherwise, I will be honest with you, I will call you “Assley” again.

Please note: He added links to help. I may differ with him A LOT. I have for many years. But I truly appreciate this olive branch he sent.

Mistaken?

I realize some people are going to give me grief for my appreciation that my letter was read and given answers and help listed.

I wasn’t a Democrat until Trump’s first term. I had been Independent since I was 18 and got my first voter registration card.

I don’t choose based on party…NORMALLY.

But these aren’t normal times.

Yes, I am pushing for Dems in the upcoming elections in 2026. We need to stop the damage and begin healing. This cannot be achieved with Drumpf sycophants in line to stomp on it.

I may end up being Dem for life after this, who knows.

But I will always acknowledge when a politician responds in a proper way and I will certainly amplify ten-fold if they acknowledge in a poor way.

So here is my ask.

From this time on, let’s refer to Joni, who wishes all the lower income brackets dead, without realizing that she won’t have the money or the poor people to prop herself on and take money from…

I propose we ONLY refer to her as…

JONI ENDST

Pass it on.

-Judy T.