In post-Roe America, women detail agony of being forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term
In post-Roe America, women detail agony of being forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term
ABC News interviewed 18 women as part of the series "On the Brink" about abortion in America after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
This is what a "Death Panel" looks like. Odd, because the GOP spent the last decade saying single payer health care and abortion rights would lead to death panels. Turns out they just wanted to be the ones running the death panels. Flee the south! Flee red states! I know their are naysayers that want people to stay so they turn the areas blue. But my argument is those areas had their chances to get basic human compassion correct and they fail every time. They will never ever agree with the will of the people and will go back on any bill passed that protects marginalized communities. The only way they will "see the light" is if they look around their states and see no women; see no educated individuals; see no hard working youths; and see no business. Then maybe they will. It's not your responsibility to put your own life and your families lives at risk in hopes that things will get better. They won't! I live in Colorado, our state isn't perfect but for fuck sakes we're trying to make life better. I used to complain about all the out of state people moving here, but I realized the majority are political refugees fleeing areas in their own fucking country. We'd love to have you because we want to lead by example. Colorado used to be known as the "Hate State" and now is one of the most liberal and free states.
Don't flee, fill. Change the demographic. Red turns blue with better numbers.
I would agree if I believed those places were actually capable of change. I do believe some red states are looking for the change. (North Carolina, Georgia, Montana are some examples.) I have family and friends in the south and the majority of people in those areas are amazing and don't care about all these culture wars. But those in those areas that do are willing to do violence to achieve their goals. If you are a target of those that want to do harm, I can not in good conscience advice anything other than leaving. Currently women and LGBTQ+ individuals literally are in physical and mental danger. Those areas will kill them before giving up any more power. Flee if you can, and literally fight if you can't. I guess that's my main point. We've given those areas more than 200 years to get their shit together and have nothing to show for it.
They always wanted death panels. Just death panels THEY control so libs get culled and conservatives are forced to breed regardless of ability to raise a child.
The only way they will "see the light" is if they look around their states and see no women; see no educated individuals; see no hard working youths; and see no business
I mean, they won't "see no women", women are nearly as likely to support forced birth as men. They don't really care about the rest of that. They'd be quite glad to not have any opposition anymore, and be able to keep all those juicy senate seats and electoral college votes. Since they already have created an extremist Supreme Court, this would guarantee they wouldn't lose the ability to veto or filibuster any attempt to fix it, while said Court continues to impose their views on the rest of the country.
It is absolutely monstrous that in the country where stories like this happen daily, that the politician who is most responsible for this situation is the likely next president. It makes me physically sick.
Not to mention the cold-hearted attacks on these mothers for trying to protect their own lives since they know they can’t enjoy having the pleasure of being a parent to these children.
This country, especially the southern states, don’t care about anything but themselves and controlling others.
I’m so glad the wife and I are actively trying to get out of Texas. It’s not a place I want to raise a family as there are no real family values offered here except hate and control.
It’s even more bizarre when women vote for / agree with this shit. What woman actually wants to go through this or thinks it’s necessary?
Don't you know? All those abortions you hear about are for evil hussies who can't stop getting with men.
But if I have complications, I get to still have a medical procedure to terminate my pregnancy, right?
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It's because those women can feel power over those other women who aren't as good as they are.
Just wait till you find out what the current president is doing.
Oh wait that's not to white women and babies so it doesn't matter.
For the lefty women, this is awful. For the righty women: this is what you voted for, suck it up and carry that dead baby.
Come on, be better than them. No woman deserves to suffer through this even if they voted against their own best interests.
It’s horrid, I know. To have a dead baby inside you and to suddenly find that anti-abortion lawmaker you so gleefully supported is preventing you from removing its lifeless body. Who could have known, right? Maybe if we pray?
Maybe going through that will give them the missing empathy they needed to be a decent human being
The thing is, I don't really care what people "deserve", or what they "don't deserve". How should I know? I'll be a dork and quote Tolkien: "Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment."
But I do care about who's in the pact. We have an agreement, between us, we decent people. We watch out for each other. We protect each other. Or if we can't, when something terrible is done to somebody, at the very least, we speak out, in protest, in sympathy, in sorrow. And the people covered by this pact, as far as I'm concerned, are the people who follow it - that's it, the sole criteria for membership, about the lowest bar possible.
I'm not going to force somebody to carry a dead fetus because they forced other people to do so, but when the cruel laws they always thought would only apply to other people suddenly apply to them, I don't owe them my sympathy either. They aren't in the pact.
Trying to be better is why conservatives are fucking us as much as they are.
Fuck that. Those women who voted for this fucking deserve it.
I'm with you on this. I worry that too mamy people cheer on the pain of the "other" without realizing that in doing so they become the worst of what they hate
People make bad decisions, but then some of them grow. To tell them that they deserve their pain, just because they didn't understand what it was they were doing, is pretty fucked up
Eh. If they genuinely have a change of heart and are horrified at their previous self, we can afford to show grace. If they go right back to supporting Republicans, fuck them.
Every pregnancy is so taxing on the body, and can have a huge impact on a woman's future health. To make women go through it against their will, or for a child that won't live/have any quality of life is evil and vile. Sometimes, I wish their God were real, just so these fuckers can get to the pearly gates and get booted straight down to hell for all eternity.
I'm so glad I'm menopausal and not American and my husband had a vasectomy.
Seriously this is awful.
Might as well implement Sharia law in some US states. You're not far behind the Taliban.