Septic, liters of blood lost and on a breathing machine

[Anonymous]

…behold, the future for women with missed miscarriages in forced birther states. It won’t just be raped 10 year olds bearing children that will kill them and the sluts the forced birthers hope to punish, it will be regular adult women who were trying to have kids whose lives will be changed forever.

Anonymous wrote:Munoz said he faced an awful predicament with a recent patient who had started to miscarry and developed a dangerous womb infection. The fetus still had signs of a heartbeat, so an immediate abortion — the usual standard of care — would have been illegal under Texas law.

“We physically watched her get sicker and sicker and sicker” until the fetal heartbeat stopped the next day, “and then we could intervene,” he said. The patient developed complications, required surgery, lost multiple liters of blood and had to be put on a breathing machine “all because we were essentially 24 hours behind.’’

This is what the misogynist GOP wants across the country. Think of dying, terribly, from sepsis that even modern antibiotics can’t touch, on a breathing machine, leaving your children without a mother and your husband a widower because in the GOP women aren’t people, but an embryo is. Unreal that there’s anyone still willing to defend nauseating and cruel politics of hatred of women.

[Anonymous]

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-science-health-medication-lupus-e4042947e4cc0c45e38837d394199033

[Anonymous]

I thought Texas had a health/life exception?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Texas had a health/life exception?

We gonna go through this again? You seriously didn’t learn your lesson from the 10 year old rape victim who was denied an abortion in her home state so that the hospital would be in compliance with the law? Seriously? OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Texas had a health/life exception?

The trick is, how do you determine exactly when the mother's life is at risk? A patient can seem stable, then go downhill quickly. Doctors are going to be too afraid to risk it before they are absolutely certain the woman will die. At which point, it may be too late.

Google Savita Halappanavar to see how this ends up playing out in real life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Texas had a health/life exception?

We gonna go through this again? You seriously didn’t learn your lesson from the 10 year old rape victim who was denied an abortion in her home state so that the hospital would be in compliance with the law? Seriously? OP.

Duplicate thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Texas had a health/life exception?

See, that's the problem with this bullshit. Even with a "health/life exception" it ends up being lawyers arguing and wasting time rather than allowing the doctor to save lives.

You really screwed up, Republicans. You do not understand the first thing about how things work in real life. It's all just this glib magical thinking of sound bites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Texas had a health/life exception?

The trick is, how do you determine exactly when the mother's life is at risk? A patient can seem stable, then go downhill quickly. Doctors are going to be too afraid to risk it before they are absolutely certain the woman will die. At which point, it may be too late.

Google Savita Halappanavar to see how this ends up playing out in real life.

Especially since anyone in the country can sue the doctor hospital or nurses or pharmacist involved or the husband/friend who brought her to the ER of its before the imminent threat of death. Or maybe they just start getting death threats like the Indiana OB.

The devaluing of womens lives and the cruelty is a feature. Not a bug. This law was designed to scare OBs into not acting. This was the plan.

[Anonymous]

Hello Gilead. Although even Gilda’s would have acted sooner to prevent the death of fetal incubator.

Republicans— the dogs who caught the car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Texas had a health/life exception?

See, that's the problem with this bullshit. Even with a "health/life exception" it ends up being lawyers arguing and wasting time rather than allowing the doctor to save lives.

You really screwed up, Republicans. You do not understand the first thing about how things work in real life. It's all just this glib magical thinking of sound bites.

+1

This is why abortion is best left to the grown ups to decide for themselves rather than let the forced birther mental children try to wade in to what they don’t understand and don’t care to learn. When pregnancies go wrong, sometimes there’s a grey area for best treatment and time to wait. But the woman in the paragraphs I quoted did not have time for an enormous grey area artificially created by the homicidal GOP. OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Texas had a health/life exception?

See, that's the problem with this bullshit. Even with a "health/life exception" it ends up being lawyers arguing and wasting time rather than allowing the doctor to save lives.

You really screwed up, Republicans. You do not understand the first thing about how things work in real life. It's all just this glib magical thinking of sound bites.

+1

This is what happens when the clowns try to write law.

Leave it to doctors, dipshits.

[Anonymous]

You don't have time to consult a lawyer in a life or death situation, and most doctors don't want GOP idiots to report them or sue them or send them to jail for an "abortion."

It's probably going to take a number of women dying for the GOP to want to do anything about it, and those women will mostly have to be white and wealthy.

[Anonymous]

Republican women don't have miscarriages, so they're fine with the rest of you dying in childbirth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Republican women don't have miscarriages, so they're fine with the rest of you dying in childbirth.

Source for this comment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't have time to consult a lawyer in a life or death situation, and most doctors don't want GOP idiots to report them or sue them or send them to jail for an "abortion."

It's probably going to take a number of women dying for the GOP to want to do anything about it, and those women will mostly have to be white and wealthy.

I’m a lawyer. Please don’t consult me to make life and death medical decisions. I’m not competent to do so. I thought I was premed until I almost failed first semester Chem and became an English major. . My doctor got an A, completed Pre-med, had strong enough grades and test scores to be admitted to med school and then did 8-10 more years of training. All because these are very complex decisions. That’s why we leave these decisions to doctors and patients. Not me, and definitely not judges and politicians playing culture wars.