Abortion

[Huckleberry]

The woman doesn't lose autonomy over her own body when she becomes pregnant, regardless of the circumstances. As recent votes show, most Americans want abortion to be an option for women. Even Florida had 57% vote for reasonable abortion rights (albeit in a losing effort).

 

[Maudiemae]

The woman doesn't lose autonomy over her own body when she becomes pregnant, regardless of the circumstances. As recent votes show, most Americans want abortion to be an option for women. Even Florida had 57% vote for reasonable abortion rights (albeit in a losing effort).

Oh yeah. Most voting did vote in favor. Who made it necessary to win by 60% rather than simple majority as most states had it? Republicans. So people here voted in favor of that Amendment...and then turned right around and voted in favor of people who will never give it to them. Personally, I think things have turned out as they did because people are in for a very rude awakening. If rump does the things he's claimed he will do (and who knows if he will or not), the people who voted for him will hurt badly from his actions just as much as those who did not. They just haven't figured that out, yet.

 

[Maudiemae]

Oh yeah. Most voting did vote in favor. Who made it necessary to win by 60% rather than simple majority as most states had it? Republicans. So people here voted in favor of that Amendment...and then turned right around and voted in favor of people who will never give it to them. Personally, I think things have turned out as they did because people are not thinking things through. They are in for a very rude awakening. If rump does the things he's claimed he will do (and who knows if he will or not), the people who voted for him will hurt badly from his actions just as much as those who did not. They just haven't figured that out, yet.

 

[Bama75&80]

Oh yeah. Most voting did vote in favor. Who made it necessary to win by 60% rather than simple majority as most states had it? Republicans. So people here voted in favor of that Amendment...and then turned right around and voted in favor of people who will never give it to them. Personally, I think things have turned out as they did because people are in for a very rude awakening. If rump does the things he's claimed he will do (and who knows if he will or not), the people who voted for him will hurt badly from his actions just as much as those who did not. They just haven't figured that out, yet.

If only it was just them who reaped what they sowed.

 

[Maudiemae]

this was incredibly hard to read but absolutely necessary. This story is my story if it happened today in Georgia rather than in 2003 when it did. In that sense we were lucky. We wanted our baby too, they named their's Siya. We still grieve our Jamie, so much so that I can't even share this article with my wife. It was hard enough for me to read.

The Journey of an Abortion in South Carolina

When, at five months pregnant, Emma Giglio discovered her baby had multiple anomalies in utero, she and her husband made the heartrending decision to terminate their pregnancy. But that was just the beginning of her agony.

www.glamour.com

I just gathered the courage to come back to this thread. I didn't think I could take it before since there seemed to be so many who simply don't understand much about how blanket policies on abortion can be horrifically traumatic or deadly. I thank you for posting this and for telling your own story. Sending my heartfelt love to you and your wife. You can't tell her but I send it anyway.

 

[NationalTitles18]

It's already been documented multiple times, so don't give me the "hyperbole" BS.

 

[Its On A Slab]

Oh yeah. Most voting did vote in favor. Who made it necessary to win by 60% rather than simple majority as most states had it? Republicans. So people here voted in favor of that Amendment...and then turned right around and voted in favor of people who will never give it to them. Personally, I think things have turned out as they did because people are in for a very rude awakening. If rump does the things he's claimed he will do (and who knows if he will or not), the people who voted for him will hurt badly from his actions just as much as those who did not. They just haven't figured that out, yet.

Republicans don't want popular measures to pass - if they don't agree with them.

I asked my state senator here(Iowa) why we couldn't put a reproductive freedom amendment on the ballot. She said that, unfortunately, the Iowa legislature passed a law that stated that, in order for an amendment to be on the ballot, both houses of the legislature must approve of the initiative first. Both houses are dominated by extreme right-wing religious nuts.

I was flipping channels on FM on Wednesday night. Ran across a local Christian radio station. The interviewer was talking to a Republican operative about how "their" side won. I wanted to call in and remind them that God isn't a Republican or Democrat. One of the biggest reasons I give the middle finger to anyone from an evangelical church who tries to proselytize me. The same reason I gave it to any Republican who came knocking on my door this election cycle. They know what they did.....they just didn't want people to remember.

 

[NationalTitles18]

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital

Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.

www.propublica.org

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.

 

[Its On A Slab]

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital

Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.

www.propublica.org

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.

But, but, but.....muh egg prices are too high.

 

[NationalTitles18]

But, but, but.....muh egg prices are too high.

Women's (fertilized) eggs are costing them their lives when things go wrong, as they often do.

Deaths like this used to be quite rare, but are now growing and maternal mortality rates are rising as a result.

 

[92tide]

But, but, but.....muh egg prices are too high.

don’t for get the tyranny of pronouns and quarterly dei training

 

[NationalTitles18]

 

[NationalTitles18]

Alabama lawmaker moves to ensure contraception access during Trump presidency

Alabama state Sen. Merika Coleman, D-Pleasant Grove, has pre-filed a bill to establish a statewide legal right to distribute and use contraceptives.

www.al.com

Alabama lawmaker moves to ensure contraception access during Trump presidency


“There were some people that were coming to testify on bills where they used the term chemical abortion, and they were talking about the morning after pill.”


“And so now, especially in light of the new president that was elected, and now that we have both the Republican House and Senate that will take office next year, we definitely, no time soon, will have the protections of Roe [v. Wade] reinstated when it comes to abortion access. But there’s still also an attack on contraception. And so, I just want to make sure that I highlight this issue.”

 

[NationalTitles18]

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.

Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

www.propublica.org

A third Texas woman whose case we now know about. There are many others. How many is enough?

 

[Huckleberry]

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.

Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

www.propublica.org

A third Texas woman whose case we now know about. There are many others. How many is enough?

Collateral damage is acceptable to the anti-abortion fanatics.

 

[Its On A Slab]

Oh yeah. Most voting did vote in favor. Who made it necessary to win by 60% rather than simple majority as most states had it? Republicans. So people here voted in favor of that Amendment...and then turned right around and voted in favor of people who will never give it to them. Personally, I think things have turned out as they did because people are in for a very rude awakening. If rump does the things he's claimed he will do (and who knows if he will or not), the people who voted for him will hurt badly from his actions just as much as those who did not. They just haven't figured that out, yet.

But here is the thing: We can understand people who voted for him 8 years ago - because he wasn't a known quantity, and hadn't had any time in office.

I would argue that many who switched their vote to Biden in 2020 turned around and said, "We like this <incredibly bad word for feces>!" Which tells you a lot about the fickle and myopic character of many people in this country.

The people who voted for him have no rights to any buyer's remorse. They knew what they were getting. Or should have known.

 

[NationalTitles18]

 

[NationalTitles18]

www dot newyorker dot com/magazine/2024/12/02/the-texas-ob-gyn-exodus

Letter from the Rio Grande Valley
The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus
Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

 

[NationalTitles18]

Well, that's an interesting decision.

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths

The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee revealed this week that it will not be reviewing any cases that occurred over the last two years — which just happen to be the years when Texas's strict anti-abortion law went into effect.The Washington Post reports that the move by the...

www.rawstory.com

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths

The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee revealed this week that it will not be reviewing any cases that occurred over the last two years — which just happen to be the years when Texas's strict anti-abortion law went into effect.

 

[Jon]

Well, that's an interesting decision.

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths

The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee revealed this week that it will not be reviewing any cases that occurred over the last two years — which just happen to be the years when Texas's strict anti-abortion law went into effect.The Washington Post reports that the move by the...

www.rawstory.com

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths

The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee revealed this week that it will not be reviewing any cases that occurred over the last two years — which just happen to be the years when Texas's strict anti-abortion law went into effect.

Georgia solved this problem, we dissolved our maternity review committee

Georgia dismisses members of pregnancy maternal death review board after leak of information on 2 such deaths

Georgia's top health official dismissed all members of a state committee that investigates pregnancy-related maternal deaths after the leak, presumably by a committee member, of information about two such deaths.

www.cbsnews.com