Someday I will tell you the story about how I spent the year after my baby died-- how much lonelier, more devastating, more exhausting, more financially ruinous it was made by the 'pro-life' laws of Indiana and the fecklessness of my private insurance. The idea that Amy Barrett's

views on reproductive healthcare and access to healthcare are somehow not harmful to others and just a matter of personal faith she would never impose on others is a disingenuous lie. If Jesus believed in one thing, it was easing the suffering *specifically of women*.

Seeking healthcare, I travelled to another state and took out loans to pay for for treatment my insurance would not provide. My baby had just died, but I got up at 4 AM and travelled three hours in the dark by train along a cold, dark lake. I did this 3x per week on and off

for a year, alone. It didn't work, possibly because I was too "stressed". That money, time, and the hours I could have spent healing at home are gone forever. I'm not the only woman who has been on these cold and lonely journeys. The loneliness of the bottom of the lake. Help us

In case this is too vague, I'll spell it out. The "pro-life" culture that fetishizes motherhood (in white wealthy women only) forbids fertility treatments along with contraception and, of course, medicine derived from fetal stem cell research like Regeneron. They actively

impede the 'wrong' people from becoming parents in the 'wrong' way, including barring reproductive services from queer and trans people, making it more difficult for queer and and trans people to adopt, and barring abortion and even contraception services in US clinics worldwide.

so doesn't just stop with Amy C. Barrett's personal beliefs, the whole system ripples outwards to cover the globe in misery.