Mahsa Amini, 22, was detained by morality police in Iran on Sept. 16 for not properly covering her hair with her hijab, which is mandatory in Iran. Three days later she was dead. The morality police enforce the dress code in public and her hair became exposed for reasons over which she may not have had control. They claim her headgear was too loose thus exposing her hair. The U.S. government has since imposed sanctions on Iran’s morality police after the death of Mahsa.
Who will impose sanctions on the states in the U.S.A. that forbid the rights and freedoms of choice of American women to control their own bodies, to vote, etc.?
I guess it could be our own “morality police” in Arizona, Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania, and other states. They can report women thinking of having an abortion, doctors suspected of performing them (they will face five years in prison in some states!), pharmacists who provide abortion medicines. They can even enlist social media sites and neighbors to report on neighbors or file lawsuits against them. In Iran women have recently lost many rights they used to have. They are now separated in the workplace, on the streets, at beaches, restaurants, and can’t cut their hair, etc.
How frightening can it get there, or here? Perhaps we need to watch the “U.S. and the Holocaust” again or read about the rise and fall of the Nazis!
Adeline (Eddie) Jouflas, Holladay