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Jessa Duggar, a pro-life activist who regularly compared abortions to the holocaust, gets abortion
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Anonymous
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This is right up DCUM alley so I'm surprised it hasn't been discussed. Jessa opened up about a miscarriage over the holiday. She went to the hospital where she had a D&C, which we all know is a surgical abortion, the same procedure her and her family have been pushing to be illegal. Hypocrites. "Healthcare for me, but not for thee".
https://pagesix.com/2023/02/26/jessa-duggar-reveals-she-suffered-a-miscarriage-in-emotional-video/ |
Anonymous
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It's hilarious to see those who support the Duggars and who are anti-abortion in general spin how a D&C isn't an abortion.
A D&C is a method of abortion. Period. |
Anonymous
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Come on. Has her family really opposed women getting D&Cs to evacuate a miscarriage?
I’m pro choice BTW, and have had a real abortion. |
Anonymous
A D&C is a method of abortion. But not every D&C is an abortion. If the baby/fetus's heart has stopped and it has stopped growing having a D&C is not an abortion. |
Anonymous
Come on, D&C are medical abortions, one of the kind that pro-lifers want to legally get rid of. This is a real abortion. |
Anonymous
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A miscarriage means fetal death has already happened on its own. An abortion is when a woman takes action to cause the fetal death.
Removal of fetal tissue that died a natural cause is not an abortion In colloquial terms. |
Anonymous
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It’s very common to have a D&C after a spontaneous miscarriage, to make sure that tissue is not left behind in the uterus. It’s not at all the same as choosing to have an abortion.
I’m pro choice and no fan of the Duggars, but I don’t see how having a procedure that is meant to protect from possible infection after a spontaneous miscarriage equates to the difficult choice to have an abortion. |
Anonymous
| PP here. I just think this is such a losing line from the pro choice camp. People use “abortion” in a colloquial sense to refer to terminating a viable pregnancy that is unwanted. Not terminating a non-viable one (that may be very much wanted) for medical reasons. |
Anonymous
| This post is in super bad faith. She did not get an abortion. She had a procedure to remove an already dead fetus. |
Anonymous
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I am curious what the ultra-nuts anti-abortion people have said about D&Cs. Have any said that you have to pass a dead fetus naturally?
I would have thought that nobody would ever say that but after Roe I feel like anything is possible. |
Anonymous
| Doesn't everyone also get misoprostol after delivery? It helps with postpartum hemorrhage. They're trying to ban it because it's an abortion pill, but it has plenty of other uses. |
Anonymous
I could be wrong but I believe the anti-abortion faction, which would include the Duggars, generally harbor suspicion about the use of D&Cs to evacuate a miscarriage because they're generally a meddlesome lot and don't trust women to begin with and so they believe the claim of D&C would be used as cover for aborting a viable fetus. That's based on some of the mainstream rhetoric I've picked up from those people, anyway. |
Anonymous
Federal government insurance bans abortions. So yes, it did not cover my D&C. My fetus wasn't completely dead (yet) but was already incompatible with life (missing organs). So that's exactly what ultra nuts anti abortion people want. I guess they wanted me to carry that dead fetus to term, then deliver it. Fun times. I paid out of pocket instead. |
Anonymous
The fetus was non-viable not dead and she chose the lifesaving decision to end the pregnancy. |