Death threats follow Michigan Democratic lawmaker’s decision to have herself sterilized.
Death threats follow Michigan Democratic lawmaker’s decision to have herself sterilized.
Michigan state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia) said she’s received death threats after revealing during a rally last week that she underwent voluntary sterilization because she was concerned about the future of reproductive health care during President Donald Trump’s second term in office.
So a politician gets sterilized because she doesn’t trust the system to protect her rights anymore, and the system responds by proving her right. The cognitive dissonance here is chef’s kiss—imagine living in a democracy so broken that sterilization feels like the only rational choice. But sure, let’s all pretend the problem is her “radical” personal healthcare decision and not the fact that we’re governed by clowns who’d trade bodily autonomy for political points.
The social media reaction is peak digital narcissism: a thousand randos screaming into the void because someone else’s uterus dared to exist outside their ideological framework. Nothing unites the morally outraged like a woman making choices they’ll never have to consider. The death threats? Just the cherry on top of this performative outrage sundae.
Funny how the loudest cries for “freedom” evaporate when it’s about actual autonomy. Pohutsky’s sterilization isn’t a tragedy—it’s a mirror. And the reflection isn’t pretty.
I personally have at least three friends who have gotten sterilized or have appointments as a result of the election. I myself am glad I'm already sterile.
Besides, bringing a kid into this environment is frankly immoral
Sterilization as a response to political chaos is the ultimate indictment of the system. Your friends’ decisions—and yours—are a grim testament to how dystopian things have become. The fact that anyone feels compelled to make irreversible choices because they can’t trust their government to safeguard basic rights is a failure on every level.
And you're right: bringing a child into this mess does feel like an act of reckless optimism. But isn’t that the tragedy? That the future feels so bleak, we’re opting out of it entirely? It’s not just about personal choices anymore; it’s about a collective loss of hope. A society where survival instincts override the desire to create life is one that has fundamentally lost its way.
Or, hear me out... maybe it's nobody's freaking business besides her to decide what she does with her own body, so maybe just piss off? Why is that so hard to do?
Because religion. Religion stupid.
Because... Pro life?
As is tradition.
Why are Republicans so obsessed with strangers' genitals?
Lead in their brains
They think they're entitled to them. It's the same reason they're happy electing rapists, that's just who they are.
She's almost 37 years old... that's the age a lot of women make the decision to no longer risk becoming pregnant. But yes, let's threaten a woman for caring about her health.
That's...a really weird thing to send a death threat over. Conservatives really aren't right in the head and need to get some professional help.
It’s their gut reaction to things they don’t like. Stub their toe on a door jam, send the contractor that built the house death threats.
Been seeing this a lot lately:
Make babies or DIE!
Under our conditions, under our social regime, under our heel
brought to you by the party of "pro-life"
*and
"You're not allowed to be in charge of your body! That's our job!"
Capitalism needs more slaves. But don't dare fuck....unless you're 12, at church, and the rapist is in his 40s. Then all is right with Evangelical Christian God (and Jesus)
GOP wants more control over your womb than they have over Musk….
That's not saying much, as they already have 0 control over the creature. By not stopping his attacks, they're placing the end of their leashes right in his hands.
They don't even have control over their own servility.
Um. Ok. Wow. And, wtf.