Which legislator do they call? How do they choose? |
The real problem is they want to ban abortion, with no exceptions. The vague exceptions they write only serve to give them plausible deniability. |
And the people pretending the exceptions are real are their handmaidens. |
Yes, that's the substantive problem - the procedural problem is that the legislature makes laws, then it's up to other branches to interpret them. The legislature has no more say once the law is passed. |
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Here is a great article illustrating how these laws are supposed to function. How they have been crafted to function. How the forced birth activists are operating.
They are meant to be complete bans. They exceptions are for political cover only. They are not meant to be accessible for doctors and patients. This is intentional. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-anti-abortion-meeting-with-tennessee-republican-lawmakers |
DP. This is too vague. At what point is a pregnancy considered life threatening? For example, in situations where there's premature rupture of membranes prior to the point of viability, yet still a heartbeat, where does the doctor draw the line? How close to septic does a woman need to be before this type of futile pregnancy is finally considered "life threatening"? How about cases where fetal abnormalities affect the health or future fertility of the mother? Where's that "life threatening" threshold supposed to be set? The laws were written specifically to be vague on this. It was absolutely intentional. |
Also, it has to be an "emergency." A 10 year old can carry for a long time before it's an emergency. It's possible it would never become an emergency. |
Until delivery. One of the stories shared at the time of this 10 year old girl’s ordeal was a 9 or a 10 year old girl who ended up hemorrhaging after delivery and the only treatment that worked was an emergency hysterectomy. |
And the counsel for National Right to Life says you’re completely wrong and she should have given birth. And it’s his people who wrote the law. So why do you think the hospital should have believed anyone would have protected them from charges? |
To whom? The legislators that wrote the laws? The ones that voted for it? The ones that opposed it? Whose counsel is a hospital supposed to take and what member of the legislature is taking these calls? Go ahead and post those numbers. |
+1 And just wanted to add that every pregnancy is more life-threatening for the woman or girl compared to an abortion. |
Because they don’t give two s*its about women. All of this, all the “why don’t women report rape?” faux handwringing, all the banning abortion in fascist controlled states, all the casual two stepping about them going after birth control next, the playing off pregnancy and delivery like it’s nothing and not risky, it’s to try and put women back in a subordinate position. They hate that girls are doing well in school. They hate that there were cracks in the patriarchy. |
Maybe start taking rape crimes seriously for a change. |
This rapist was convicted and is serving life in prison. That doesn’t mean the next rapist’s victim should be forced to become his child’s mother. |
That’s for them to learn, if they haven’t already. If I’m a hospital administrator, this is something I have posted in my office |