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Anything to distract attention from the actually relevant issues of the day, like the growing economy, diminishing inflation rate and record low unemployment rate under Biden's administration, and the women's worsening health issues under the misogynistic policies pursued by medically and scientifically illiterate MAGA bigots.Some Schmo wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:16 pm...unless a Republican does it.
Republicans Are Throwing Temper Tantrums Over 'Barbie'
Small minded, belligerent people. What else can you say?
It is surprising the number of stories that Fox News does not cover.
Fox doesn't have time to cover the news with all the fiction they broadcast.
You know, there's a correlation between people wanting to control what women do with their bodies and men freaking out over any kind of feminist empowerment. A small nudge in that direction gets assholes barbequing dolls in fits of mock rage.
I think the Florida Legislature has already been warned that is a bridge too far.Some Schmo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 4:18 amI mean, try suggesting the government makes jacking off (killing sperm wantonly) a crime. Oh no, can't have the government controlling our bodies! Heaven forbid!
If you don't already know, you just haven't been paying attention.
Plaintiffs testifying at the hearings include Amanda Zurawski, who developed sepsis and nearly died after being refused an abortion when her water broke at 18 weeks; Ashley Brandt, who was forced to leave the state for abortion care after one of the twins she was carrying was diagnosed with a fatal condition; Samantha Casiano, who was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term and give birth to a baby who died four hours later and Dr. Damla Karsan, a Houston-based OB-GYN representing her patients. A fifth plaintiff -- Dr. Austin Dennard, an OB-GYN who had to travel out of state to receive abortion care for a nonviable pregnancy -- will testify Thursday.
Women could get up to 30 years in prison for having a miscarriage under Georgia's harsh new abortion lawCasiano said she was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term only to watch her baby die four hours after giving birth. Casiano's fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, a birth defect where a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull.
She described the shock of receiving the news at an ultrasound appointment she had gone to alone.
After finding out her baby's diagnosis, Casiano met with her obstetrician who did not offer her abortion care.
"She told me that my daughter had been diagnosed with anencephaly -- I believe that means that her skull and her brain is not full developed -- and that she was sorry, I didn't have any options," Casiano said.
"She then called in a caseworker. The caseworker came in and they handed me a paper that said funeral homes on top of it," Casiano said through tears.
Casiano said her doctor prescribed her with antidepressants, but nothing else.
At the hospital, she discovered her baby was in breach, coming out with her legs first. But, Casiano said she was not offered a cesearan section.
"My daughter came out of me and she was gasping for air. It's all I can remember," Casiano said.
"I had to watch my daughter go from being pink, to red to purple, from warm to cold. Her eyeballs being regular to things just popping in there, bleeding. I had to watch my baby suffer," Casiano said.
"I just kept telling myself and my baby that I'm so sorry that this had to happen to you. I was so sorry that I couldn't help her and release her, going to heaven sooner rather than later," Casiano said.
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Cases like this and worse have already been discussed on this very forum. I could literally fill pages and pages with examples of how harsh women's healthcare restrictions, especially concerning reproductive healthcare rights are adversely affecting women's health and even threatening their very lives. As far as I'm concerned, denying women the right to be, along with their doctor, the primary and final arbiter on their own reproductive healthcare decisions (including abortion) is both immoral and un-Christian! Even the Catholic Church's ban on abortion is a fairly new historical phenomenon!200
Arpan Rai and Gustaf Kilander
October 4, 2022·3 min read
An Arizona teen has spoken out after she was refused a refill of a life-saving prescription drug within 48 hours of the state abolishing abortions under its new law.
Emma Thompson, 14, has debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis and had been prescribed the immunosuppressant methotrexate to fight the pain and symptoms of her disease.
The Tucson native was refused a refill of the drug after Arizona rolled out its new law against abortions on 24 September, on the basis that the drug can also be used to end ectopic pregnancies.
Until the 1880s, abortions were morally acceptable and legal, with even the Catholic Church approving of the procedure before 'quickening.' Historians say the desire to ban the procedure had more to do with business than women's health.