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[–] 144 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 115 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Wonder what was different about her abortion.

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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

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  • [+] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

    You can't fix stupid.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [+] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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    [+] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 27 points 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 22 points 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.

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

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

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

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    I take pleasure in her pain hurting her own cause

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

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

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's a shame she didn't die. Or at the very least learn something from this experience.

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