A Christian Theocracy Is Being Enforced on Women’s Bodies: Living Under Authorized Atrocity After the Ground Has Been Removed

International human-rights law increasingly treats reproductive autonomy as a foundational right because it recognizes a basic truth: without bodily autonomy, there is no liberty, no equality, no dignity, and no meaningful concept of consent. When the state commandeers a woman’s reproductive capacity, she is no longer treated as a full human being. She is reduced to biological function. A vessel. A reproductive asset. A breed-cow whose risk, pain, and death are deemed acceptable in service of ideology.

This is not abstract. This is not metaphorical. This is policy that knowingly exposes women and mothers to organ failure, sepsis, infertility, permanent disability, and death. It is the deliberate creation of conditions where women are forced to carry pregnancies regardless of medical reality, personal will, or survival. In any other context, this would be instantly recognizable as torture, forced labor, and human experimentation. Only misogyny has made it politically legible.

It is also an explicit violation of religious freedom.

The United States is not a Christian theocracy, no matter how aggressively certain factions wish it were. Christianity is not the sole moral framework of this country, yet abortion bans impose a specifically Christian doctrine onto everyone. Judaism, for example, does not treat the fetus as a person with rights superseding the mother. Jewish law prioritizes the life and health of the woman. If a pregnancy endangers her, termination is not only permitted, it is required. By enforcing Christian definitions of life through state violence, the government is not “protecting religion.” It is erasing it. This is religious domination, not religious liberty.

What makes this moment so destabilizing for women is not confusion. It is clarity.

Abortion bans shout from the rooftops: I am willing to murder women and mothers in horrific ways. I do not care if you live or die. I do not care if your children lose their mother. I do not care if you suffer. That message is so unfathomably violent that it removes the ground beneath us. It breaks our sense of reality. Authorities are committing bottomless atrocity in plain sight, using our tax dollars, while insisting it is moral. That dissonance is psychologically shattering.

This is why so many women keep reaching for empathy, for recognition, for someone to say, “Yes, we see that this is killing you.” It is not weakness. It is the human mind trying to reconcile an unthinkable truth: that the people in power know exactly what they are doing, and are doing it anyway.

And that is the strategic error we must now correct.

Begging for empathy from people who enjoy power over life and death is not a winning strategy. Pleading with criminals to care about your humanity when they have already demonstrated they do not will never work. For many of the architects of these policies, the suffering is not an unintended consequence. It is part of the pleasure. The thrill is impunity. The thrill is getting away with it.

The correct response is not disbelief. It is documentation.

These are crimes against humanity. Forced pregnancy, denial of life-saving medical care, and state-sanctioned maternal death are recognized internationally as such. You may be getting away with it now. You may control courts, legislatures, and police. But history does not forget. Evidence accumulates. Records persist. Regimes fall. Trials happen.

This is how criminals are addressed. Not with appeals to conscience, but with the certainty of accountability.

So we tell the truth. We record every death, every denial of care, every woman forced to the brink or over it. We support each other through the emotional devastation of realizing what is being done to us. And we speak with clarity, not desperation:

This is a crime. You are committing it. And someday, you will answer for it.

That is the strategy.