Nation That Jails Citizens For Seeking Basic Reproductive Healthcare Vows To Liberate The Women Of Iran

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | CONTACT

As the US begins military strikes on the 92 million people of Iran, questions are being raised by the American public as to whether this will be another fruitless decades-long military conflict that leaves yet another Middle Eastern country in a worse state than it was to begin with.

Many have pointed out that the US Government’s rhetoric in the lead up to entering a war with Iran is almost identical to what happened in 2003, when they accused the sovereign nation Iraq of harbouring weapons of mass destruction that were never found to exist in the first place.

It seems that the only difference between 2003 and 2025 is the one letter that differentiates Iraq from Iran.

Because on top of allegations of Iran being a rogue state that harbours nuclear weapons, America has also accused the Middle Eastern nation of being far too chauvinistic. Something that America simply will not stand for.

If Iran’s unconfirmed nuclear program wasn’t enough to win over the wider American public’s support, there has also been accusations that Iran’s treatment of their own women is archaic – and that alone is a good enough reason to suggest toppling the current regime.

However, what is different this time around is that the White House is no longer in a position where they can argue that the United States is the gold standard for women’s rights.

After nearly a decade of dismantling domestic reproductive healthcare programmes and parachuting openly misogynistic far-right candidates into executive positions within the US government and courts, America is now struggling to sell themselves as the saviour of the world’s oppressed women.

Since President Donald Trump completed stacking the US Supreme Court in 2023, who subsequently overturned the landmark “Roe v. Wade” ruling in 2022, thousands of American women have faced prosecution for an array of different charges relating to their own reproductive health.

Six states – Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas – accounted for the majority of cases, as American women face jail time for attempting to circumnavigate the newly passed fundamentalist Christian laws that strip American citizens of the right to make choices about their own bodies.

However, this medically dangerous backwards slide in human rights for American women does not mean that US lawmakers aren’t concerned about the conditions begin faced by the women who belong to their enemies on the other side of the world.

The US has made it clear they are willing to drop as many bombs on Iran as required in order to free these poor women from such an un-American regime.