Does history repeat itself? Just recently Connecticut exonerated its last witch. It only took over 350 years. It brought me to think about the common link these trials had to the society we live in today.

Here we are again with 5 plaintiffs in Texas bringing a suit against the state due to its severe abortion laws. Although all the women wanted their pregnancies, there was some malformation of the fetus or a fetus was dying inside the womb. One of the women developed the dangerous and life threatening sepsis infection and almost died along with her dead fetus. All had to leave the state and risk more health complications because doctors were too afraid to perform an abortion to save the mother.

If you read the history of the Salem, MA and Connecticut witch trials where about 200 people were put on trial for witch craft, you can almost …