Letters from Our Readers

This would be a rather stunning argument from a Black writer such as myself. I am in fact ecstatic that McDonald is playing the role; my argument was that, given the show's sociohistorical specificity, McDonald should not play the role as a specifically Black character, just as she has not done in the past when portraying (always to perfection) other white characters. I read Stephania Taladrid's account of Tony Ogburn's efforts to treat women in Texas after the passage of S.B. 8 with my heart in my mouth ("The Texas Exodus," December 2nd). I was especially horrified to hear about the difficulty of treating ectopic pregnancies; as Ogburn says, "it's the standard of care everywhere in the world." An ectopic pregnancy is an inherently nonviable one.