The Gilead Gazette: Death Threats Over an Abortion, and 'Prove' You Were Raped

This week on the Gilead Gazette, the stories the press isn’t covering.YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife shared that they ended a pregnancy after a Down syndrome diagnosis, a decision made by roughly 74% of families who receive that diagnosis. The post drew nearly 25 million views and a wave of death threats. Conservative figures including Matt Walsh and Abby Johnson attacked the family, and House Speaker Mike Johnson called their private decision “evil.” The family says they now sleep next to a gun.In Illinois, one of the most pro-choice states in the country, a man who secretly drugged his girlfriend with abortion medication to end her pregnancy was sentenced to seven years for “voluntary manslaughter of an unborn child,” a fetal-personhood charge that casts the woman not as the victim of an assault but as incidental to it.In Georgia, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson was recorded agreeing that rape victims should have to “prove” they were assaulted to qualify for the state’s narrow exception. Two of three rape victims never report to police, and roughly 98% of perpetrators are never convicted.In Arkansas, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is invoking sovereign immunity to avoid disclosing what her office told the family of Emily Waldorf, who was denied emergency abortion care and nearly died.Plus: an Alabama AG threatens websites that share abortion-pill information, the Texas Alliance for Life urges the GOP to drop its “abolitionist” execution plank, and a TPUSA Women’s Summit speaker defended the Salem witch trials.Sources:https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jesse-ridgway-sleeping-next-to-a-gun-amid-abortion-backlash/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leaked-audio-shows-gop-candidate-agreeing-that-women-should-prove-rape-to-access-abortion_n_6a0f1637e4b0bb04cec3cc88This week on the Gilead Gazette, the stories the press isn’t covering.YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife shared that they ended a pregnancy after a Down syndrome diagnosis, a decision made by roughly 74% of families who receive that diagnosis. The post drew nearly 25 million views and a wave of death threats. Conservative figures including Matt Walsh and Abby Johnson attacked the family, and House Speaker Mike Johnson called their private decision “evil.” The family says they now sleep next to a gun.In Illinois, one of the most pro-choice states in the country, a man who secretly drugged his girlfriend with abortion medication to end her pregnancy was sentenced to seven years for “voluntary manslaughter of an unborn child,” a fetal-personhood charge that casts the woman not as the victim of an assault but as incidental to it.In Georgia, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson was recorded agreeing that rape victims should have to “prove” they were assaulted to qualify for the state’s narrow exception. Two of three rape victims never report to police, and roughly 98% of perpetrators are never convicted.In Arkansas, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is invoking sovereign immunity to avoid disclosing what her office told the family of Emily Waldorf, who was denied emergency abortion care and nearly died.Plus: an Alabama AG threatens websites that share abortion-pill information, the Texas Alliance for Life urges the GOP to drop its “abolitionist” execution plank, and a TPUSA Women’s Summit speaker defended the Salem witch trials.Sources:https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jesse-ridgway-sleeping-next-to-a-gun-amid-abortion-backlash/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leaked-audio-shows-gop-candidate-agreeing-that-women-should-prove-rape-to-access-abortion_n_6a0f1637e4b0bb04cec3cc88Abortion, Every Day Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe