“He will be there. You know he will be. He’ll be there at the birth and he’ll be there always. He killed Miriam’s brother; he’s killing Gascoigne now. If I fall into his hands I’ll never be free of him. My baby will never be free.”
This has unfortunate parallels to real life.
I am reminded of the (retired, for now) Wisconsin Congressmen who said that 'we' (in this case meaning European descended Americans) weren't reproducing fast enough to keep 'our' (switching to Americans in general -- but still, really, meaning white folks) population/country stable.
When you expand the frame to consider the congressman's party's platform -- of which our Wisconsin Congressman was largely seen as a visionary, thoughtful leader of --, you get the disturbing impression that, to this august political body of old white men, a woman's body isn't much more than a portable baby farm -- one that needs to be regulated; and conditioned for optimal reproductive efficiency. Gross. 😷
