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Death after death after death. The GOP death cult is doing its job.
I have been saying anti-abortion instead of pro-life. But I feel like there must be another simply-expressed term to reflect their thinking. Something along the lines of anti-women or just anti-choice. I dunno.
It's absolutely anti-choice. The party of small government (except when it comes to controlling people).
Forced-birth and anti-autonomy are other options that may be useful. Sex-punishers is another one.
Absolutely horrifying.
The second ER diagnosed her with sepsis and then sent her home because her fetus had a heartbeat.
I'm disgusted. If you are a woman, you need to get the fuck out of these death trap states. It is not safe for you there.
The second ER diagnosed her with sepsis and then sent her home
That right there should be criminal charges. Pregnancy staus is irrelevant at that point. Sepsis will kill you if untreated.
It was the politicians in Texas that harmed this woman. Not the hospital. The Texas AG sent letters to every hospital in Texas saying he would press criminal charges to anyone granting an emergency abortion. As hard as it is for poor and middle class workers, there's no way any nurse doctor or hospital is going to put themselves in front of the Texas government. If they could they would have left the state already. (many have.) Small towns in forced birth States literally have no pregnancy care facilities because the staff has all left.
Imo it's premeditated murder.
It's one of the main reasons I got a vasectomy
Maybe don't let your conservative colleagues know that. They tend to think less of men who get vasectomies for some reason. That could negatively affect how you are perceived at work. Just FYI, from a guy who spent a lifetime working with these cunts.
Stop saying "died" - Another woman was MURDERED by ignorant texas bigots in their government and spiteful, irresponsible, freedom-hating voter base.
cruz, abbott, patrick, gohmert, cornyn and cock-eyed Ken the AG, along with trump, corrupt SCOTUS majority and the whole gop giving them cover, are soaked in this woman's blood.
She was a white woman, literally named heaven HEAVEN backwards, and she's still dead, you absolute cowards that voted to enable this. Y When will you realize that you're not safe from this, you're not different, you're not "one of the good ones" that will see some protections others won't. Go have someone read a short poem to you, commonly referred to as, "first they came for". There will be plenty of words in there you don't understand, but the gist is, YOU OR YOUR DAUGHTER ARE FUCKING NEXT UP - this dead teenager, who never saw her 20th birthday, is the latest Handmaid they throw on the wall as an example to others of what's coming.
There won't be an official announcement when christian fascism takes over your area or else there would have been one a while ago.
We all predicted this would happen because we have a basic understanding of the world and a smidge of empathy. Unlike Republicans.
This is the future the Republicans want.
Hate to be that guy, but it is also the present (hopefully not future) the Democrats have allowed Republicans to build:
Bill Clinton promised to codify Roe v. Wade into law. He didn't.
Obama promised to codify Roe v. Wade into law. He didn't despite having a super-majority in his first two years.
Biden promised to codify Roe v. Wade into law and didn't. The Dobbs decision was taken in June 2022, so before the midterms when Democrats still had a simple majority in the house and a tie + VP in the senate. When there were rumors/leaks a month or so before the decision that the USSC would take that decision soon. Again: Inaction.
Where were all the pro-lifers? Oh, that's right, they only care about you before birth. My mistake.
Literally just had an argument with a born again Christian who didn't want tampons in bathrooms.. because tax payers would have to pay and it was the parents responsibility
This guy though has no problem with collecting the pension from tax payers or the church not paying tax.
The people that voted for this shit have the biggest blinders on right now. I'm sure they're trying to ignore that anything has gone wrong.
I hope someone with enough money to make this a problem for the policy makers gets after this in court soon. The USA needs to either pass a federal law stating that abortion is legal, or they need a new roe v. Wade judgement on the books. Until one of those things happens, this continual and unnecessary loss of life will continue; it is inevitable.
For people who call themselves "pro-life" they sure don't give any shits about people continuing to live.
Anyone who is anti abortion, this is for you: 🖕
Sincerely,
Around 1 in 5 pregnancies, that's 20%, end in miscarriage. There's a bit of a genetic lottery that is random within this crazy sensitive process of creating a baby. You can be doing everything right, but it doesn't matter. You can lose the pregnancy and many do. And then, statistically, their next pregnancy is healthy and without complication.
There's no fault to a person in this progress, just like there's no fault to how a flower grows - some have more pedals, some have crooked stems, some never grow and stay seeds in the ground. Texas killing this child for losing a pregnancy is akin to them having you roll a 5 sided dice and shooting anyone who lands on a "4" between the eyes.
Ignorance and fear rule the red areas on the US map. Of course those red areas are populated predominately by trees, lakes and mountains, all of which are likely more intelligent and empathetic than the few frightened human voters spattered throughout that share that very rural landscape.
Texas killing this child for losing a pregnancy
Texas didn't kill her for loosing a pregnancy - Texas killed her by making her losing the pregnancy take too long by terrifying doctors out of speeding the process along, causing her to be in and out of hospital ERs repeatedly while doctors essentially played "hot potato" with her despite all of them knowing what needed done out of fear of being thrown in prison for a century if they did it, causing her to eventually develop sepsis and die.
It's much, much worse than "killing her for losing a pregnancy", and exactly how awful it is and how it got to that point needs to be spelled out in detail. Otherwise you'll have people pointing out that the Texas law has an exception for medical emergencies, and it needs pointed out and doubled down on that by the time the doctors were reasonably certain that a conservative Texas court would agree with them it was a medical emergency (aka she'd already developed a systemic infection), she was already doomed.
Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who is primarily responsible for the present situation, used to be my local state senator.
I specifically kept my voter registration in Texas during my college years so that I could continue to cast my vote against him. There is nothing good to say about that evil man.
I like Texas, and I hope that at some point we figure out how to govern it in a sane way, because I unfortunately cannot recommend living there right now.
I have a suspicion that a mother who named their daughter Heaven backwards might have agreed with the Republicans up until the time it affected her daughter.
I wonder if her stance on this has changed now.
This is exactly the goal of force birth policies.
Women who don't survive are considered weak and must be cleansed for Republicans' perfect society. It's eugenics. Killing women is the point, in the minds of Republicans every woman who dies deserves it.
Recalled this case that is getting public attention in Mexico. Queretaro, a state in the Bajio region of Mexico known by its conservative ideas, is using their attorneys to try to make a 14 yo child to pay 26,000 USD in damage repair to her rapist, because she suffered a miscarriage. The state attorneys also demand her to go to prison for three years.
Publicly, and in the media, the girl is known as "Esmeralda". I'm sorry I couldn't find a note in English about this case to link. The thing in common between both situations is a corrupted institution that's supposed to protect the people.
politicians killed this girl as surely and as gruesomely as any serial killer.
Ahhh shit. It's a young attractive white girl. They might actually pay attention to this one. Maybe...
Not married, though, so I wouldn’t count on it.
Hey, remember that former Trump aide and professional jackass, John McEntee, who said he didn't see any evidence of women being injured as a result of anti-abortion laws? Funnily enough, he has been conspicuously silent on the subject since. Instead, he's now making "jokes" about repealing the 19th amendment. A real piece of work.
CW: SA
Remember Todd Akin's comment on sexual assault?
"It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,” Mr. Akin said of pregnancies from rape. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.”
Not that it matters if an abortion is requested due to rape or any other reason, but this quote really drives home that it isn't really about protecting children despite that last line: they think all women who get abortions should be punished for being murderous sluts despite all evidence to the contrary.
Is there a database that collects these cases? I'm not from the US, but I think it would make a lot of sense to have a website that documents all those cases, so one could point people to it if necessary.
I imagine it would be a HIPAA violation for hospitals to release these details; you only hear about the ones that the individual families decide to make public by speaking to journalists..
..so it’s even worse/more common than you think.
Not sure how doctors can willingly comply with this shit. Seems antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.
It's the sort of systematic coldness that comes with procedure. Like even at that last place where she got to the ICU, the nurse "insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm fetal demise". So clearly the hospital has tried making some "reasonable" procedure, and the nurse wanting to confirm thought "we'll just quickly get this out of the way" or something.
It's horrible seeing politics and especially religious political views causing such regression in our modern age where it's completely needless.
It's the fear of losing everything that gives these people pause. I hope I'd do better in that situation, but I don't know what it's like to face losing everything you worked for in your life as well as your freedom.
The people to blame are the monsters who created these laws.
She didn't "die", that implies this was an unfortunate accident or that she just got sick or something.
She was murdered by the Republican Gendercide
Does anyone remember from the handmaids tail where the one handmaids loses her shit and shoots a guard and I think aunt Lydia? So they put her in a coma and keep her alive for her womb? And she wasn’t the patient, the baby was?
Yeah.
Sad thing is that these stories don’t seem to get in front of the people who need to hear them. The media censorship in right wing media is as aggressive as the media censorship that they think exists in traditional media outlets.
Punishing unwed, independent mothers is the plan.
Any "pro-life" fuckheads want to speak up here? This is the inevitable result of laws criminalizing healthcare. The doctors could not act without risking criminal prosecution in Texas and this young woman died. Or maybe killing women was the goal all along? Solving Texas' teen pregnancy problem one dead teen at a time.
"Doctors involved in Crain’s care did not respond to several requests for comment. The two hospitals, Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas and Christus Southeast Texas St. Elizabeth, declined to answer detailed lists of questions about her treatment."
The predominance of religion-owned hospitals in large swaths of the country is part of the anti-autonomy strategy. When I wanted my tubes tied along with my second C-section, I had a choice of the university-affiliated hospital rather than the Catholic one which wouldn't perform a tubal ligation. But in many places, there's no such option, especially in an emergency.
She did her part keeping the hospital beds available for more profitable patients. It's the American way. As long as our hospitals (and government) prioritize profits over health, there will be no end to these stories.
Killing Pregnant Teenagers is EXACTLY how we SAVE THE CHILDREN! PRO LIFE!
Fuuuuu, imagine dying like this. That poor girl.
The absolute terror she must've had in her mind, while being in a hospital too. The place that should help her, just feeling absolutely powerless and probably begging for help while life is slipping away. Imagine what she sees in the faces of the people she's asking for help from.
Terrifying.