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"Pro-life" woman seeks abortion and gets denied (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

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Screenshot from news article, posted to Twitter, and then to Reddit, reading ""Pro-life" woman seeks abortion and gets denied. Privileged people are used to authorities being reasonable and accommodating. They vote against rights for others thinking they'll be able to negotiate an exception for themselves. Then they get shocked when this fails. Farmer told the newspaper she's always identified as "pretty pro-life" —but she found herself seeking abortion care, anyway, even calling her state senator's office to seek help. She didn't find it. The office of her state senator, a Republican named Bill White, told her the state ban that was literally jeopardizing her life was actually "designed to protect the woman's life." Farmer recalled telling White's aide, "It's not protecting me... There's no chance for a baby; she's not going to make it. It's putting my life in danger." She continued, "I'm 41, it's not something I can recover from quickly. I could lose my uterus, there's a lot of things that could happen. We just want to move on, we just want to grieve." White's office promised it would talk to the state's Attorney General Eric Schmitt on her behalf and then connected Farmer with an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center in the state. Farmer never heard from White's staff again."

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[–] Wiz@midwest.social 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Republicans are the ones that nicknamed it that, to try to make their supporters hate it as much as a Black man, even if it hurts them.

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[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Worked pretty great. Of course part of the ratfucking they did was to cripple the actual legislation, too, not just the image of it, so it doesn't work nearly as well as it should.

So now they have to vote in Congress to keep a thing people need but which they themselves made much crappier, while also being expected to scream about wanting to get rid of it altogether, while also being unable to make any useful changes to the legislation at all. And this is on healthcare, probably the most directly impactful issue faced by their actual voter base.

Messaging and propaganda are seriously like game-breaking IRL exploits.

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