The "I Can't Believe There's No Abortion Thread" Abortion Thread

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

They don't understand. Republicans are all about "owning the female species."

Maybe I read the article wrong, but it sounds like the bill only bans a specific procedure, with a "life of the mother" exception...

Actually sounds like a reasonable proposal to me. YMMV.

[aparch]

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Alabama Senate rejects exceptions for rape and incest in near-total abortion ban 21 to 11. Singleton is now filibustering the bill. #alpolitics

— Brian Lyman (@lyman_brian) May 15, 2019

Incest.

Fu**ing your sister and making her pregnant means she has to keep your inbred spawn child alive for nine months.

Way to go Alabama.

[aparch]

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But yet, it's no problem to pull the plug on older people even though they have a heartbeat.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Whitmer will veto, thank God.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan...tjy4QEsuHewGHE

I love State Republicans on this: "we understand if a woman has medical issues during pregnancy, BUT THE BAYBEEZ!!!!!!!!"

They don't understand. Republicans are all about "owning the female species."

[MissThundercat]

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Whitmer will veto, thank God.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan...tjy4QEsuHewGHE

I love State Republicans on this: "we understand if a woman has medical issues during pregnancy, BUT THE BAYBEEZ!!!!!!!!"

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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I love how when it comes to climate change, Republicans will often say they aren’t scientists, can’t trust it, etc. yet They purport to be gynecologists when it suits them.

Isn't it great?

"Science" is for Nazi Marxist Commie Muzzie Wiccan Fascists! Except when our PACs pay for questionable studies that agree with our positions.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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I love how when it comes to climate change, Republicans will often say they aren’t scientists, can’t trust it, etc. yet They purport to be gynecologists when it suits them.

[duper]

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My would-be cousin had a defective heart and died in utero: genetics. But that aunt still thinks it's her fault for some reason.

One thing I think we should do as a society is do a better job of getting out there the info that roughly 25% of pregnancies result in miscarriage. If you've got 4 kids, and you didn't have a miscarriage, you beat the odds. A woman (or a man, for that matter) feeling like a miscarriage is her fault is frankly tragic, and it's kind of avoidable.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Not that you were wrong, but this is more accurate.

Yes, that’s fair. I used women as it appears sperm donors aren’t being targeted with these new laws

[The Sicatoka]

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... it’s one of the most devastating things a potential parents can have happen and to have anyone in this country think it’s a good thing to investigate and punish is just absolutely sickening.

Not that you were wrong, but this is more accurate.

[Slap Shot]

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They're only trying to ban the methods of birth control that give the woman the control. Defending it is out of line, even if there are "exceptions."

Who the eff was defending it?

[Kepler]

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As someone who has had multiple miscarriages, these potential laws throw me into a rage, and I’m likely not able to have a rational discussion. But it’s one of the most devastating things a woman can have happen and to have men in this country think it’s a good thing to investigate and punish is just absolutely sickening.

And women too, evidently.

Ideologies make smart people stupid and stupid people vicious.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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As someone who has had multiple miscarriages, these potential laws throw me into a rage, and I’m likely not able to have a rational discussion. But it’s one of the most devastating things a woman can have happen and to have men in this country think it’s a good thing to investigate and punish is just absolutely sickening.

[ScoobyDoo]

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My would-be cousin had a defective heart and died in utero: genetics. But that aunt still thinks it's her fault for some reason.

Throwing her in jail would certainly validate that point of view.

[The Sicatoka]

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It used to happen.

A full examination had to be done, and presented to a POLICE OFFICER, to prove my mom hadn't committed Manslaughter. Imagine that. Worst moment of your life, in pain, covered in blood, dead fetus. PLEASE WAIT LIKE THAT WHILE WE TREAT YOU LIKE A CRIMINAL.

— (((David Avallone))) (@DAvallone) May 9, 2019

Fetus?
It's worse than that; if the mother expected a live birth, that's a dead child, a dead baby. (There's the worst psychological damage.)