No, I don’t think it’s hyperbolic at all. When the state requires you to die rather than allowing a medical procedure that will save your life, it’s state sanctioned death.
I agree that the term is most commonly associated with the death penalty. However, that is more accurately state sanctioned killing. If you look up the definition of state sanctioned death you’ll find something broader, like: instances where the state or its actors commission, condone, endorse, or enable the death of citizens.
No exception abortion bans do exactly that. Ectopic pregnancies are the mostly widely known example. They aren’t viable, you can’t transplant them, and the woman WILL die if her body doesn’t naturally abort. That doesn’t always happen naturally.
So how is that not state sanctioned death?
Add to that the asinine statement by Amy Coney Barrett that Roe v. Wade should be overturned to increase the domestic supply of babies for adoption. The Supreme Court is an institution of the state, literally one of the three branches of government.
In what universe is that not state sanctioned death on both the federal and state level? The Supreme Court has not rendered it’s official decision yet but states have trigger laws in place that WILL kill women. The Supreme Court must be aware of this, else they are in dereliction of duty. If the decision comes down in line with what’s states in the draft, how can any reasonable person not see that is the federal government condoning the death of women to further the agenda of the state?
How can any reasonable person not see that states with no exception laws are condoning, endorsing, commissioning, and enabling the death of women for political purposes?
In the past, I might have agreed with you about politics being exclusionary; however, things are different now. Like it or not, politics is how we collectively agree upon the rules of how we get to live our lives. It is important when choosing someone with whom to build a family. How can it not be? Especially now, with us slipping into fascism and under threat from fundamentalist theocratic nonsense. Not everyone wants to live the life of a Puritan.
If you find refusal to align oneself with someone who is okay with or down with the state sanctioned death of women to be a red flag, that’s your business. As to your supposition that it would indicate one is unable to compromise in other areas, I’ll just point out that one cannot compromise when one is dead. The right to one’s own life and one’s own body is not a point of negotiation. It’s a key tenant of basic human rights, agreed upon internationally. You either think women are human and deserve basic human rights or you don’t.
But you do you. Liberals aren’t having to lie about being conservative to get a date, so good luck with that.
