That’s what gets me about this: The pregnancy is doomed. The genetic tests are conclusive. This trisomy condition WILL result in a dead baby, guaranteed. On ultrasound, it’s already seen not to have the major organs needed to survive. This woman has already had two previous c-sections, and each subsequent one reduces her chances to have another child successfully—which she says she wants very much. But trying to carry a trisomy fetus to term is itself inherently risky because the fetus can pretty much die at any time or miscarry, risking lethal sepsis infection.
Yet these Rethug motherfuckers don’t care about any of that. They want to inflict unnecessary and potentially lethal harm and suffering on this woman. Why? No reason other to ensure that no woman, girl, or transperson can escape a pregnancy, wanted or unwanted, that might kill them. Put in these terms, the intent is clear.
Why? Yes, I agree. But it’s also a message to ALL women — you are just a vessel for the child, and your life and health, not to mention your needs and wants, are of minimal consequence.
So, in other words, the only time females have equal rights in Texas is before they are born.
They’ll choose the fetus’s rights over the woman’s whether the fetus is male or female.
Plus they want to enforce the “Reproductive Duty” of White Women at ALL COSTS!
Hopefully she can -or has- arranged the procedure to be done out of state as a backup plan.
Then the TX ‘Vigilante Law’ kicks in and anyone can sue anyone else who helps her go elsewhere.
In the words of Mrs Betty Bowers :
Republicans are so “pro-life” that they are willing to kill a woman in exchange for a dead baby.
Silly man. Marriage isn’t necessary for procreation. Ask any teenager who forgot their birth control.
Or anyone else with more than half a brain who knows that marriage is a civil contract, period.
So anybody who is sterile or beyond child bearing years should not be able to get married? A fertility test should be required before getting married.
Sweet Jesus I rant through all these arguments TWENTY years ago now in the marriage equality “debates” – these people hold no coherent postions, they just hate gay people and women.
Logic has no place in their debates. Only their feelings matter. Nobody else’s feelings are relevant. Pregnancy not viable? Mother and baby likely to die? So what? It’s was jesus would want.
You identified those I call ‘The Feelers’. They’re the ones who’re most easily swayed by conspiracy theories, loudmouth narcissists, screaming evangelicals, the ‘voice’ of authority’. etc. Whenever they experience fear they ‘know’ that they’re wrong and have to repent, grovel or humiliate themselves publicly.
The Feelers dominate the GQP and they’re extremely dangerous since anything can trigger them… literally. They pull a trigger whenever they get sufficiently riled up.
Hell, how many Christianistas view an unintended pregnancy as a just punishment for sex outside of marriage, insisting the woman carry it full term, and then denigrating the innocent child as “a bastard.”
Any British judge repeatedly arrested for protesting abortion would quickly be struck off as a judge for bringing the law into disrepute.
Next !
Religious extremism is destroying the world.
Elie Mystal was saying during an interview the other day, that if anyone is thinking about sitting out the 2024 election or if they believe that a second Trump presidency won’t be so disastrous, just shout “ABORTION… ABORTION… ABORTION !!” A Trump regime will insure that abortion (at least for the 99%) is an impossibility. As we’ve seen, these insane & unmercifully cruel zealots & misogynists don’t care about women and whether they live or die, as long as their draconian ideology prevails
Especially galling considering Dump doesn’t give the first shit about abortion. His newly minted moronic minions are a different story.
We should never forget that he tried to convince Marla Maples to get an abortion when she was pregnant with who would turn out to be Tiffany.
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