Remember the goal is to remove anything positive about gays / trans kids, to remove any anti-bullying programs, with the goal of wiping out LGBTQIA visibility in society.ย ย That will lead back to the horrible abuse of kids who are different as in the past.ย We have to find a way to stop this.ย ย Remember this is the same school that had the fundamentalist religious person on the board sneak a religious film crew in to take video and interview students.ย ย Please look at the actions the board / school districts have taken against LGBTQIA students.ย The effort was described below by one person interviewed, but to put it in my own words, they want to roll back all advances in acceptance, tolerance, and equality of anyone who is not straight and cis.ย To remove all protections for kids who are different, who might be LGBTQIA, or not straight or not cis.ย ย It is to enshrine church views / doctrines into rules and laws.ย Return society to what as allowed in the 1950s, which these people feel makes go happy because it makes them feel happy, good, and important.ย ย Hugs.ย Scottie
โWhat I see driving it now is an ugly push to deny LGBTQ rights and identity that, in some states, is being enshrined in law,โ he said.
The Keller ISD school board recently passed policies decried as discriminatory to LGBTQ students.
Timber Creek High School parents received an email Friday night saying that students would no longer perform the show this spring.(NBC5)
A Keller high school production ofย The Laramie Projectย โ a play about the aftermath of the 1998 murder of a gay student in Wyoming โ was canceled.
Timber Creek High School parents received an email Friday night saying that students would no longer perform the show this spring. The email did not provide an explanation.
Community members are now rallying to reinstate the production,ย launching an online petitionย that has received more than 1,300 signatures so far.
โThis play is a poignant depiction of queer history,โ the petition reads. โBy banning this play, we are not only suppressing an important piece of history but also denying our students a chance to understand and empathize with the struggles faced by the LGBTQ+ community. โฆ Itโs essential that our education system works towards creating awareness about these issues rather than shying away from them.โ
In the brief email to families, school leaders said they are โworking on developing an alternative production opportunity for our students.โ
โWe understand that it is unusual for a production change like this to take place. Students will still have an opportunity to read, discuss, and analyze the play during the school day,โ they wrote.
District spokesman Bryce Nieman said in a statement that the decision was โmade by many stakeholders.โ
โThe decision to move forward with another production at Timber Creek High School was based on the desire to provide a performance similar to the ones that have created much excitement from the community, like this yearโs Keller ISD musical productions ofย Mary Poppinsย andย White Christmas,โ Nieman wrote in an email.
Mary Anne Weatherred, whose son was supposed to perform inย The Laramie Project, said sheโs concerned about a pattern of anti-LGBTQ decisions in Keller.
If people donโt agree with the message of the show, she said, then they shouldnโt come watch it.
โBut they donโt need to take it away from the kids,โ she said.
The Laramie Project, which is often performed in high schools across the country, explores the communityโs reaction to the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student who was attacked, tied to a fence in a field and left to die.
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His brutal death became a symbol of anti-LGBTQ violence and helped fuel the fight for expanded hate crime legislation.
Judy Shepard, Matthewโs mother and president of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, said sheโs seen a spike in attempts to cancel productions of the show in recent years.
โMy heart is broken when people still refuse to see how important this work is,โ she said.
Shepard said the play can hold particular resonance for high schoolers, who are only a few years younger than her son was when he died.
โIt might scare some kids. And it might wake some kids up. And it might make kids want to make change โ all of those things. And they have the power to do it,โ she added.
Roughly 25 years since his murder, many lawmakers and local school boards are targeting the rights of LBGTQ students.
Keller schoolย trustees voted last yearย to establish rules stating that district employees โshall not promote, encourage, or require the use of pronouns that are inconsistent with a studentโs or other personโs biological sex.โ This means someone could intentionally use the wrong pronouns when referring to a transgender or nonbinary child.
Before that, the school board approved a policy prohibiting library books across all grade levels that include theย discussion of gender fluidity.
A Keller ISD trustee resignedย earlier this monthย after parental outcry over a film crew that was brought into a school without familiesโ knowledge or consent. Parents were enraged when they saw the crew was part of an evangelical network from the Netherlands.
The Matthew Shepard Foundationโsย goal is toย โcreate an environment where people are afforded an opportunity to discuss the play and its messages, the hate they encounter in their own lives, and how they can work collectively to build a more understanding and compassionate community.โ
โWe know educators are worried about the current wave of legislation mandating what they can and canโt teach,โ the associationโs director, Jennifer Katona, said in a statement. โWhatโs concerning about these results is the potential impact of self-censorship. School theatre should be a way for students to explore diverse perspectives, which helps them develop empathy and critical thinking.โ
A different North Texas district recently triggered national outrage when a transgender teenager was removed from his part in the school musical. The communityย rallied to get him reinstatedย in his leading male role.
Howard Sherman, managing director of the performing arts center at Baruch College in Manhattan, is an arts advocate who tracks and fights against instances of theater censorship in schools.
โWhat I see driving it now is an ugly push to deny LGBTQ rights and identity that, in some states, is being enshrined in law,โ he said.
Hearing that Keller ISD wanted to instead put on a show more likeย Mary Poppinsย orย White Christmas, Sherman said those are great shows that have a place on the high school stage.
โBut they shouldnโt be the only kinds of shows because that is not preparing students for college, for the real world,โ Sherman said. โStudents shouldnโt be relegated to escapism or assumed to not be capable of handling mature themes.โ
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Earlier this month this same school district was infiltrated by an evangelical group who filmed students without their permission. A school board member who reportedly helped sneak in the film crew later resigned.
Texas high school production of The Laramie Project โ a play about the aftermath of the 1998 murder of a gay student in Wyoming โ was canceled, without explanation. School board has recently passed other policies that discriminate against LGBTQ students https://t.co/OFfyLKsQ3H
More than 25 years after the murder of Matthew Shepard, young people still face hate and death due to their LGBTQ+ identities. @KellerISD should be ashamed for cancelling "The Laramie Project," which shows how hate poisons communities. https://t.co/MVP9JCwlCq
Well, you can’t let good ChristStain children learn that the hate their parents are spewing lead to the brutal death of an innocent young man whose only crime was being born the way he was born.
One of the reasons for Theatre to be a part of our lives is that it causes people to think. Mary Poppins is not about thinking. White Christmas is not about thinking.
The Laramie project is intended to get people to think. For that reason alone, it would be anathema in Texas .
Meanwhile, the 2nd grade rendition of “Showgirls” (featuring pageant winners Marabelle and Lindsey!) will continue to be performed at the Timber Creek Saloon.
I still remember all those years ago when we had a memorial for Matthew Shepard. We were handed out stickers(which I still have) that read “We’re all Matthew Shepard” It’s the truth these days.
In the seventies, of the six plays we did each year, one was required to be a classic. After casting, but before rehearsal, Lysistrata had to be replaced with The Trojan Women due to one Harper Valley hypocrite.
What are the odds that they will “chose” Godspell or some other Christian-infused pablum? Not Jesus Christ Superstar, that is too “rock,” and not the Jesus-Is-My-Rock type, either.
This trash thinks he is both a Christian and worth to be a legislator.ย There is no Christian state!ย The US by the constitution can not have a state / national religion, and children who are not following their strict church doctrines are not filth.ย A 16 year old was beaten in a bathroom for being different!ย In the US.ย And this clown is proud of it.ย Is that what we want the US to be, to look like?ย I saw this and I was stunned at the absolute inhumanity of what he is saying.ย Hugs.ย ย Scottie
โWe are a religious state and we are going to fight it to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma because we are a Christian state โ we are a moral state. We want to lower taxes and let people be able to live and work and go to the faith they choose.
โWe are a Republican state and Iโm going to vote my district, and Iโm going to vote my values, and we donโt want that in the state of Oklahoma.โ GOP Oklahoma state Sen. Tom Woods, when asked about the death of nonbinary teen student Nex Benedict.
Listen to the applause below.
After a non-binary teenโs death, GOP lawmakers were asked why they obsessed over the lives of LGBTQ people.
State Sen. Tom Woods gave the worst possible answer: he wanted to โkeep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma because we are a Christian state.โhttps://t.co/HrIOkhRVXA
Thereโs a lot to be disgusted by here, but do not overlook the fact that Christian nationalist language is being used to justify the death of a non-binary student โ with absolute authority & confidence. โโโ
That โfilthโ was A CHILD !! To use one of their own parlances, โThat was one of Godโs childrenโ of whose demise this cruel, evil, self-righteous & souless creature glories in.
White Nationalists absolutely believe that. I remember having a step dad who was a licensed Pastor who was one of them. Blacks and Jews were also singled out as Satan’s spawn and therefore hating and even killing them was seen as righteous.
Dehumanizing people makes it easy to be cruel to them.
So my take away here is in your/Oklahomaโs definition ofโfilth โ is non binary children . The sooner they commit suicide or die off the better Oklahoma will be. Itโs so damming Christian of you . You heartless cold bigoted snot . How the fuck can you even look at yourself in a mirror. No I guess you type cast no image
Well, they already passed a law here in Oklahoma to take away the option for non binary people to change their birth certificate and they proposed a bill this legislative session to do the same for the rest of us.
Please understand I read this article, but I can not go back through and colorize it.ย I have nothing to say I have not screamed already.ย Please do notice this is being driven by Christian hate and bigotry.ย The groups pushing this are proud of it, that they are Christians.ย ย Are they?ย ย Read about Vinny Langworthy, a trans boy followed into bathrooms with people trying to take pictures of him under the bathroom stall doors.ย ย Tell me again who are the real sex perverts?ย ย I thought Christians leaders were for keeping families together, but here they have broken up families as one parent needs to take a trans child out of state leaving the other parent behind.ย ย Sorry people there is a lot in this article, and I have reached over load.ย ย I am trying desperately not to cry, I have been up all night not able to sleep and I seriously I just want all the hate to stop.ย Please, just for a few hours at least.ย ย Maybe I will watch more of the Picard series Ron got me, but then … See I had almost cleared two weeks of old tabs tonight, I rushed through others blogs I saved, I answered comments, I was going good. But the last few stories of hate and bigotry have finally broken me.ย ย Hugs.ย Scottie
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Nex Benedict died on February 8, one day after a fight in a Owasso High School bathroom in which they were beaten.ย (COURTESY OF THE BENEDICT FAMILY)
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LGBTQ+ community members in the state are vowing resilience with a message that “weโre not going anywhere” after the 16-year-old nonbinary studentโs death.
As news broke this week about the death of 16-year-old nonbinary student Nex Benedict, who died after a fight in a school bathroom, crisis calls to an Oklahoma LGBTQ+ support organization more than quadrupled โย with 69 percent of callers referencing Benedict.ย
As parents, youth and the larger community grapple with the news, Lance Preston, the executive director of the Rainbow Youth Project, said he wants queer youth to know they are well-supported in the state.ย
โWe have an entire army that is standing beside them,โ Preston said. โPeople are not going to ignore them.โ
Benedict died on February 8, one day after a fight in a Owasso High School bathroom in which they were beaten. It is unclear if the incident was hate motivated due to Benedictโs gender, but the youth had reported increasing anti-transgender bullying throughout the school year after Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into lawย a bill requiring studentsย to use a bathroom that aligned with their sex assigned at birth.ย
Owasso Public Schools said in a statementย that school officials responded appropriately to the fight and have cooperated with the Owasso Police Departmentโs investigation into Benedictโs death. The district said that all of the students involved walked on their own to the assistant principalโs office and were medically evaluated, per school policy, by a nurse.ย
โWhile it was determined that ambulance service was not required, out of an abundance of caution, it was recommended to one parent that their student visit a medical facility for further examination,โ the district said in its statement.ย
Owasso Police said Wednesday that a preliminary autopsy indicates Benedict didnโt die of trauma and that officials are waiting for the results of a toxicology report, which could take months.
The district declined to provide details about the disciplinary measures taken against students involved in the fight due to federal privacy laws.ย Benedictโs mother told The Independentย that Owasso High School officials told her that her child would be suspended for two weeks for the physical altercation. She added that Benedict explained that the fight now linked to their death involved them and a transgender classmate against three girls, all older.ย ย
Preston said he has seen a shift in the parents of trans kids.ย
โItโs kind of been an awakening moment for them,โ he said. โWhether they were supportive before, now theyโve kind of gone into that hyper-supportive mode to make sure that theyโre doing everything right.โย
One mom called Preston on Tuesday crying.ย
โShe had misused a pronoun [with her transgender child] and corrected it immediately but was worried to death that that was going to be enough to harm her child.โ
We send our children out into this world every day in fear of something like this happening.
Chelsea Richardson
Chelsea Richardson, whose transgender son Vinny Langworthy survived his own bathroom harassment in high school, made the decision to stay in Oklahoma and provide safe places for kids like her son by opening a bookstore.ย
Richardson was at her store, getting ready for her grand opening, when the alert about Benedict hit her phone. She felt her heart hit her stomach.ย
โWe send our children out into this world every day in fear of something like this happening,โ she said.ย
Langworthy was out as transgender for his entire time at Harding Charter Preparatory, about two hours southwest of Owasso. He socially and medically transitioned as he got older, and other students started to read him as male. One day, another student took a photo of his feet and legs from under a bathroom stall and posted it to Snapchat, he said. The photo was captioned with an anti-trans slur.ย
โโโIt was definitely just a hard situation to navigate or always feel like youโre being watched,โ Langworthy said.
No longer safe to use student bathrooms, Langworthy used the teachersโ bathrooms, a change that made him late for class or prevented him from using a bathroom at all. He started coming home with urinary tract infections.
Queer kids here are not safe in schools.
Vinny Langworthy
He graduated without a solution. Now 18, he said the news of Benedict and the alleged bullying they faced infuriated him.ย
โStudents should be protected and taken care of no matter their gender identity,โ he said. โQueer kids here are not safe in schools.โย
Eridian Dempsey ofย Stand with Trans, which supports transgender youth and their families, said that bullied LGBTQ+ are often disciplined by schools rather than supported by them.ย
โThat happens all the time,โ said Dempsey, who is an intern with Stand with Trans, part of the organizationโs Youth Advisory Board and its Therapy Assistance Program coordinator. โItโs essentially scapegoating the trans child even though they didnโt necessarily do anything and they were defending themselves if they even fought back. If they didnโt, why are they being blamed in the first place?โ
Itโs not clear if Benedict and their transgender classmate were in the bathroom together to offer protection to each other, but Dempsey recommends that trans students and their supporters take part in an effort calledย Iโll Go With Youย in which allies accompany trans youth into restrooms and other spaces where they may be concerned about their safety.ย
โThey have buttons that people will wear to show that theyโre willing to go to the bathroom to help keep trans individuals safe,โ Dempsey said.ย ย
Although these efforts help, they donโt address why trans youth are targets of bullying and abuse in the first place. Dempsey said that state and local policies contribute to the problem.ย
โOne hundred percent thereโs no doubt about it that when the state says we are not OK with trans people living as who they are, then that tells the kids in the schools, โIf you donโt feel OK with trans people, good for you,โโ Dempsey said.ย
Benedictโs mother learned about the bullying the teen reportedly endured in early 2023, months after the governor signed a bill that mandated students to use only school bathrooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth.ย ย
The bullying Benedict endured reportedly started in early 2023, shortly after Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill that mandated students to use only school bathrooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth.ย (COURTESY OF THE BENEDICT FAMILY)
Rachel Laser, CEO and president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said in a statement that Stitt and Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters have contributed to the hostile climate against LGBTQ+ youth in the state through their efforts to integrate anti-trans laws and fundamentalist Christianity into public schools.
โOklahoma approved the nationโs first religious public school, which will discriminate against LGBTQ+ students, and Walters appointed Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok, unqualified internet bully, to ban books and oversee school safety,โ Laser said. โThe hostile, Christian Nationalist environment Walters and Stitt have nurtured in Oklahoma public schools has created a permission structure for anti-LGBTQ+ persecution, and itโs no surprise that teens noticed.โ
Cait Smith, director of LGBTQI+ policy at liberal think tank the Center for American Progress, said that when young trans people hear that lawmakers are debating their very existence in state governments, it is extremely harmful. They pointed out that last year more than 60 percent of anti-LBGTQ+ bills introduced into states nationwide specifically targeted youth.ย
โWhen we have anti-LGBT bills talking about what schools should and shouldnโt do, it takes away the ability of school staff and families to make those decisions among themselves, among the experts and folks that are closest to the schools and students,โ Smith said. โReally, this should be up to families. It should be up to students in schools to be able to foster and find the right policies to foster safe and affirming environments at school.โ
Nicole Pointdexter and her son said they were not in a position to stay and fight. The two fled the state for Colorado after Stitt signed aย gender-affirming care ban for youth last May.ย
โThey broke up my family,โ she said. โI have two boys that still live in Oklahoma.โ
Pointdexter and her ex-husband amicably co-parent their three children. In Oklahoma, Poindexter and her ex lived a five-minute walk from each other, and the kids traveled between houses. All of the adults, including the parentsโ new partners, enjoyed family meals together. But the gender-affirming care ban made it impossible for Pointdexterโs trans son to stay in Oklahoma. Her ex-husband couldnโt leave his job. Her twin boys didnโt want to give up their spots on their baseball team.ย
โIt was incredibly difficult to make that decision,โ she said.
According toย research from The Trevor Project, which works to prevent suicide among LGBTQ+ youth, 90 percent of LGBTQ+ youth in Oklahoma say that recent politics have negatively impacted their well-being sometimes or frequently. Forty-seven percent reported that theyโve been physically threatened or harmed because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Only 31 percent agreed that their school was an LGBTQ+-affirming space.
โYoung people deserve to go to school without fearing for their safety, regardless of their identity,โ said Janson Wu, senior director of state advocacy and government affairs at The Trevor Project. โWe hope that leaders in Oklahoma and across the U.S. wake up to the reality that targeting trans and nonbinary youth has real and dire consequences.โ
When trans youth and their families hear about tragedies like Benedictโs death, it escalates their anxiety by reinforcing the message that itโs not OK to be trans, Dempsey said. Parents worry that they canโt keep their trans children safe in hostile schools with a hostile political climate to match. Parents with bullied trans children need to document each incident carefully, including which school personnel they asked to intervene and the outcomes of their meetings with those officials, Dempsey recommended.ย
I want those people who are going to school today who might be scared to know that there are people fighting for them.
Chelsea Richardson
They also said that parents should try to openly communicate with their children on an ongoing basis because children may not bring up that theyโre being bullied in a conversation unprompted.ย
Smith wants trans students who feel scared in the wake of Benedictโs death to know that theyโre not alone.
โIt is scary to see this happen to a member of your community,โ they said. โWe are going to keep fighting. Weโre going to keep pushing back against harmful policies. In the meantime, I want those people who are going to school today who might be scared to know that there are people fighting for them.โ
Richardson wants them to know that, too. She has already received threats because she plans on opening a welcoming book store. She isnโt scared.ย
โIโve never liked a bully, and Iโve never backed down from a bully,โ she said. โSo Iโm kind of like โฆ letโs do this. Weโre not going anywhere. Youโre not gonna bully us out of this state.โ
Texas is building a new military base for National Guard membersย deployed to the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texasย — where state and federal authorities have been in a tense conflict over dealing with immigration — Gov. Greg Abbott said.
At a news conference on Friday, Abbott announced the construction of what he said would a new “base camp” that could house up to 2,300 soldiers.
“As opposed to being scattered around many different places across this region, they will be operating out of one place. It will amass a large army in a very strategic area. It will increase the speed and flexibility of the Texas National Guard to be able to respond to crossings,” Abbott said.
Officials expect that by mid-April they’ll have a 300-bed capacity and will add another 300 each month until completion, Texas Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer, Abbott’s top military adviser, said at the Friday press conference. The camp will include several features like large dining halls, individual rooms for soldiers and medical care facilities.
The move may also deepen the tension between the state and federal governments as Abbott continues to implement his own strategies to deter migrants from crossing in between ports of entry at the southern border.
Members of Texas National Guard sit inside the fence at Shelby Park on February 3, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas.
It has been the epicenter of state and federal government showdown as Abbott continues to restrict Border Patrol’s access to the area, preventing them from apprehending migrants crossing in one of the region’s major hotspots.
The Biden administration has sued the state of Texas over a law that would give new authority to local police to crack down on those suspected of entering the country illegally.
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court intervened in the state-federal dispute and issued an order allowing federal authorities to cut down the razor wire installed by Texas in areas where it was otherwise difficult to help migrants in distress.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been critical of the Texas governor, calling Abbott’s unilateral actions on the border “unconscionable.”
Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, during a news conference at Shelby Park along the Rio Grande River i…Show more
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“It is unconscionable for a public official, to deliberately refuse to communicate, coordinate, collaborate with other public officials in the service of our nation’s interests, and to refuse to do so with the hope of creating disorder for others,” Mayorkas said in aย recent interview with the Associated Press.
At the Friday press conference, Texas Maj. Gen. Suelzer said that in the coming weeks the Texas National Guard will be expanding operations and installing new barriers north and south of Eagle Pass, an indication that the state continues to build barriers despiteย the Supreme Court ruling last monthย that Border Patrol agents are allowed to remove or destroy razor wire fencing to apprehend migrants attempting to enter the United States. Suelzer did not specify if the expansion of those efforts means they will also restrict access to federal agents in those areas.
Without providing any evidence, Abbott claimed his efforts at Shelby Park and in other parts of the border are responsible for the number of crossings in the area dropping in recent weeks and increasing in Arizona and other parts of the border. The state’s operations at Shelby Park cover roughly 1% of the entire southern border. But the governor did acknowledge that the number of migrant encounters in the region might once again climb in the coming months.
“As we all know, come springtime, there’s going to be additional caravans that are making their way through the southern and central part of Mexico deciding where they are going to be going,” Abbott said. “We want to make sure that when they come to the crossroad about, ‘Are they going to go to Texas? Are they going to go elsewhere?’ They will know the wrong place to go is the state of Texas.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) floats building a wall between Texas and Oklahoma because of the "radical woke left agenda … crisscrossing the United States." pic.twitter.com/i9vbjiZ55B
First thought from the headline: The American Nazi Party is already testing the waters with interstate travel restrictions for women and LGBT+ people, going so far as to legislate the presumption of guilt on the part of those making travel arrangements… The Federalist Society Inquisition has so far been somewhere between ignoring it and nodding their approval. So it only makes sense they’d try and enforce a ban on interstate travel with physical barriers and goon squads.
However, per the text of the article: Putting all his private army thugs in one place right next to where he wants to start a fight with the federal government… I can only say fucking go for it! The US air force will no doubt program the coordinates into their missiles in order to knock it all off the moment shots are fired.
An Ectopic pregnancy is not viable, ever.ย ย I am not a doctor but I looked up and read 5 papers done by medical professionals to find out where the idea comes from that an ectopic pregnancy could be brought to term, or as one Florida state legislator claimed surgically moved to the proper place.ย Turns out that the idea comes not from a medical provider but from a political organization well, well, well.ย ย Who would have guessed.ย ย Hugs.ย Scottie
Scientifically, there is no debate โ treatment is the best option.ย An embryo implanted outside the uterus has virtually no chance of surviving to birth. In a few rare instances, we have seen embryos grow for 12 to 13 weeks before they die due to insufficient hormone and nutrition supply. But when left growing that long, the embryo becomes large enough to rupture the patientโs fallopian tube, causing abdominal hemorrhage and even death.
Still, some people argue that intervening is immoral, comparing it to termination of a viable pregnancy. Anย opinion articleย published recently onย The Federalistย spread misperceptions about ectopic pregnancy management and potentially stigmatized women who seek care. The author, who has no medical training, suggested ectopic pregnancy care is unnecessary โ a conclusion she based on โdataโ from sources such as anย outdated medical opinionย from the early 1980s and aย political/religious magazine article.
The piece was scientifically refuted in aย Voxย articleย two days later, including aย statementย by the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists that ectopic pregnancy โcannot result in the survival of a baby and entails a very substantial risk of maternal death or disability.”
A week later,ย The Federalistย published aย public apology article, in which the author admitted to misinterpreting scientific data, using incorrect medical terminology, and pushing a biased agenda. The entire episode highlights the dangers ofย spreading false health information and potentially exposing women to emotional and physical harm.ย
Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz tried not to cry as the doctor in the emergency room delivered one of the most frightening diagnoses a pregnant woman can receive. The 25-year-old college senior was told she likely had an ectopic pregnancy, a highly dangerous condition where the embryo implants outside of the uterus. Without immediate treatment, the fallopian tube can rupture โ and the patient can die.
The law that has prohibited abortions in Texas sinceย Roe v. Wadeย was overturned now explicitly allows doctors to treat ectopic pregnancies. But when doctors at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital evaluated Norris-De La Cruz last week, they refused to terminate the pregnancy, saying there was some chance the pregnancy was still viable, Norris-De La Cruz recalled.
Read theย full article. A different hospital performed the procedure, telling her that she likely would have died if sheโd waited much longer.
An ectopic pregnancy will never result in a live birth only in a dead mother https://t.co/HBIzibp8IR
Yeah, that one really had me shaking my head. Did that doctor expect the embryo to uproot itself and travel to the uterus? Or the fallopian tube to expand to accommodate a full-sized placenta?
Or was that coming from the hospital’s legal department? From a doctor it would be unconscionable, but it is the kind of thing a highly risk-averse lawyer might make up on the spot.
One of my oldest friends had an ectopic pregnancy in her twenties. If she hadn’t gone to emergency and had an immediate operation she would have died in less than an hour. Any doctor or hospital that refuses to diagnose or perform this life saving procedure should be charged with attempted murder.
I have been in theatre for a number of terminations of Ectopic Pregnancies. All terminations are stressful for the patient, but an ectopic termination is heart rending ….the pregnancy is normally wanted and to see the effect on a potential mother of putting an end to her dreams of a child is impossible to convey and the guilt is beyond belief …But these patients have the support of their loved ones to help them get through the worst days of their lives …..Now imagine forcing these women to undergo this procedure out of state – far from their families and those who can support them potentialy alone ….. These people are MONSTERS.
That’s what happened in Poland, and what led to their right wing nutjobs getting kicked out office. I’d rather see us kick our RWNJs to the curb without anyone having to die, though.
A 16-year-old non-binary student in Oklahoma named Nex Benedict died following a physical altercation they had in a school bathroom with three students that bullied them since 2023. Libs of TikTokโs Chaya Raichik is now being accused of sharing indirect responsibility for the hate crime for the fact that she helped cultivate a toxic climate of anti-LGBTQ+ hate at the school by targeting one of the schoolโs pro-LGBTQ+ teachers that lead to a โscandalโ that rocked the small town. Weโll break down the details in this video.
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