Right Wing efforts to curb access to the pill while also doing all they can to limit wage protections and workplace safety and health regulations is a nightmare we've lived through before. Like many others, my maternal grandfather got sick from working in a coal mine, dying at 45 and leaving behind five children without any safety net. In short, he worked himself to death simply to earn a subsistence living, barely providing food and shelter for his family, with no chance at accumulating savings or buying life insurance.
Common back then, regardless of which country you lived in, was having more kids than you can feed and working in a low wage job which barely kept your family fed. Working conditions were brutal, safety regulations minimal and health concerns for the employees nonexistent.
Additionally, women working was nearly impossible. With five or six kids to care for, with probably another one already on the way, getting a job is not exactly in the cards. So, it is no surprise to see stats like these once birth control became more accessible.
So, one has to ask. What exactly is the Right up to? Why do they want to take us back to a time when life was a living hell?
