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[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 144 points 1 year ago
[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago
[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, stupid breeds too fast for nature to fix it.

[-] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"stupid"...

Or slaveringly subservient and brainwashed in the cult of your "Orange God" of choice...

Never mind. In retrospect, same thing.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago

Wonder what was different about her abortion.

[-] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago

She's in the elite ruling class, so she gets to do whatever the fuck she wants with impunity while projecting false accusations onto anyone who fits in the 'other' category while her dumbass base of uneducated gerrymandered trolls eats it up.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago
[-] spongebue@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

In all seriousness: it was an ectopic pregnancy, 5 weeks along. Technically legal to perform under Florida law, so in theory it shouldn't have been a problem to have it done even under current law.

To be clear, none of this is meant to be an enforcement of that law, any other laws about abortion on the books, or the anti-abortion movement in general. I can absolutely understand providers being skittish about anything even remotely borderline with these laws in place, just trying to get the basic facts into the comments because good arguments are worthless if it's about incorrect facts

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

I can absolutely understand providers being skittish about anything even remotely borderline with these laws in place,

And that is the whole issue here in a nutshell. Doctors and nurses are putting their careers and freedom on the line just brushing up against these draconian laws. If I were in their shoes I too would be very skittish.

I'm neither a doctor nor a woman, but can they really draw a line saying this day is in the sixth week and tomorrow is in the seventh? A line that would hold up in court if it had to?

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

If it's a matter of days you could probably just lie about the timing of your last period. Those weeks are calculated from the date of your last period, not from the date of conception, so as long as you're the only one who knows your cycle you could probably lie a little bit.

Which also makes a 5 week deadline more insane than most people realize. Given a steady 4 week cycle, you have 1 week to realize your period is late, schedule and perform an abortion. A lot of people do not have a steady cycle, and those may very well not notice until it's too late, even if they track their cycle.

[-] macaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago

Cruelty by design.

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[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago

It was hers, as opposed to someone else's.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

SHE needed one. That's the only reason. The answer was No for everyone else, but Yes for her. Nobody can kill babies but her.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 57 points 1 year ago

This is like someone dying from COVID denying it on their deathbed.

You can't fix stupid.

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 year ago

My friend is a doctor and said that the number of people denying COVID is real while they died in the hospital is... significantly higher than 0.

It blew my mind that they could literally be hours away from death and still submitted it was a "liberal hoax". I just...can't.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Evolution in action. Still sad.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I remember seeing something about a person telling the doctor to go to hell as they were being intubated and just thinking, "No, that'd be you."

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[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 35 points 1 year ago

This is why The Onion is so hard to differentiate from reality any more.

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

Should see the stuff I post in Not the Onion.

[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago
[-] tonytins@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

Fair enough. xD

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 31 points 1 year ago

The mere idea that anyone has to perform a medical procedure on a pregnant woman relating to the pregnancy and hesitates, proves that the law is the issue.

Someone will undoubtedly try to get a bill passed somewhere that starts labeling any removal of a fetus from a woman as abortion when the medical community is telling you that is not the case. These anti-abortion supporters want woman to get pregnant and stay pregnant. They don’t care if you have medical complications that lead to death. To think they care is just a lost cause.

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[-] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I read the WSJ article and she is absolutely infuriating. Her reasoning contains several fallacies:

False Cause:

"It was absolute fearmongering at its worst"

She blames political messaging instead of considering that vague legal language created legitimate professional uncertainty.

Straw Man:

"There will be some comments like, 'Well, thank God we have abortion services,' even though what I went through wasn't an abortion"

This is particularly frustrating. Advocates aren't celebrating her needing an "abortion", they're pointing out her experience is exactly what they predicted: doctors hesitating due to legal uncertainty. She had to argue with staff, pull up laws on her phone, and call the governor's office during a medical emergency. That's the system breakdown advocates warned about, not a misunderstanding of medical definitions.

False Dilemma:

"We have turned the conversation about women's healthcare into two camps: pink hats and pink ribbons. It's either breast cancer or abortion."

This drastically oversimplifies complex healthcare policy into just two opposing sides and the irony is staggering. It's like a company ignoring safety advocates' warnings about a confusing manual, then when accidents happen, blaming those advocates for 'scaring' workers instead of fixing the manual.

She lived the very scenario abortion rights advocates had been warning about all along, yet somehow, in her mind, the problem isn’t the law, it’s the people who tried to stop it from hurting her in the first place.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

This really is a great example of being a special kind of stupid.

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[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

She should have stood by her religious and political principles, and just rode it out. It was God's, and MAGA's, will to put her through that ordeal, and he expected her to accept her fate.

Instead, she defied The MAGA Lord and fought to have a Democratic abortion. She's a Democrat now, destined for an eternity in a fiery torturous Hell. May God have mercy on her damned Democratic Soul.

/S, nobody really believes that nonsense.

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[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Honestly wish they'd have let her die and made it clear to her it was on behalf of what she fought for. Bitch doesn't deserve to doom so many women and live despite being a would-be victim of her own evil.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Her medical documents did in fact say abortion, she had an abortion. Use whatever mental gymnastics she wants, but factually - She had an abortion, the very thing they have and are wanting to ban.

Any person with even the smallest spark in their brain going through this can figure this out.

There are thousand of abortions performed every day on people who want to be a parent more than anything in the world, people going through IVF and fertility treatments have a high chance of ectopic pregnancies. If you actually understand this, it's obvious how insane she is.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Tonight @ 9: Conservative blames anyone or anything except themselves for their problems.

[-] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Stupid bitch doesn't know what she's talking about. Film at 11!

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cult members will never blame their beliefs, they'll just perform mental gymnastics to blame critics.

[-] Godofdirt@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I take pleasure in her pain hurting her own cause

[-] minorkeys@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Blame democrats, blame democrats, there not even a real party anyway.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I have to wonder if the Doctors weren't trolling her a bit. She had an ectopic pregnancy at 5 weeks. Not only is the abortion necessary, it was within the six-week limit, so it was perfectly legal on all counts. So why would they claim they were confused about the law?

I suspect they wanted to teach an arrogant Florida Republican a lesson about politics encroaching on the medical decisions between a doctor and their patient, and made her jump through a bunch of hoops first, just to make her feel the fear, anxiety, anger, and frustration of the average citizen whose medical care is being dictated by MAGA Nazis.

Remember, we are only hearing the side of a professional MAGA Nazi, so she's a proven liar.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

That would have some significant medical ethics issues. She nearly died. Do no harm, and that's regardless of the patient's political ideology.

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[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not really sure it's a "news flash" that these people aren't particularly "sharp".

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