What does it mean to “ban” abortion?

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't miscarriages considered abortions? My wife had 2 d&cs when the fetus failed to form and were shocked to see them discussed by staff as abortions. I'm assuming any change in law would add a law enforcement interrogation to the procedure if the procedure is even available? I don't think an abortion ban will be as popular as some people think

When taking a medical history we refer to any non-surviving pregnancy as an "Ab", or abortion. Unless it's medically relevant we don't discuss whether not not it was a termination of pregnancy or an unintended loss. So it's just semantics. The emotional dialogue re: abortion vs miscarriage is a semantic argument used by (usually) male politicians who often have no understanding of the physiology of pregnancy. See how this works? To most health care providers there aren't good guys and bad guys (or girls). It's about healthcare. That's why this whole "just take a bus to a blue state" nonsense makes me want to rip my hair out. I see 20 patients a week with knee pain from overdoing it on the elliptical and they're incensed when I can't get them an emergency MRI that day. But folks want women to travel across the state for a time-sensitive procedure usually requiring an overnight stay. I'd laugh if I wasn't already screaming.

If the conservatives do get an "abortion ban" in place, many of the right wing women are going to be shocked they will be tried for murder if they have a miscarriage or fetal death.

I don’t want to say I will relish that.

Because the flip side is that if they can force you to carry a pregnancy to term, what else can they force pregnant women to? Quit work? C-sections? No epidurals? And before you say, “that’s ridiculous, that’s unscientific and women are people, no one will tell me how to give birth because of politics,” remember that anti choice lawmakers are already making doctors lie to women before abortions.

Newsflash, conservative ladies: your male fellow conservatives don’t think you’re a full person. You will get ground under same as poor woman who needs an abortion.

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This.

Remember my mom was still resentful that she had to quit he really good job (for 1969) when I was born and could not go back; her job was not held for her after pregnancy. She never had a job as good and well earning for the rest of her working life.

There are reasons women fought for the workplace, business, and healthcare protections we have now.

Once conservative women vote to trust men with their bodies instead of trusting themselves to make the right decision, they will see howany more options get taken away.

And if I asked your mom today if she would rather have had you or that job, which do you think she’d say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And if I asked your mom today if she would rather have had you or that job, which do you think she’d say?

Jesus, what a stupid question. It’s not an either or but you just admitted you think it should be. Conservative women are so wacky. NP.

[Anonymous]

I hope to the dear Lord that you are not my physician. If you don't see the difference between MIs, HTN, trauma, COPD, etc etc, and pregnancy -- which, I apparently need to remind this good doctor -- is about bringing new life into the world, then you need to go back to undergrad and retake biology. Or, perhaps you slept through your medical ethics courses. (Oh, and in your last sentence, it's "affect them," not "effect them." You're welcome.)

Physician back; that's good that your experience with pregnancy is joyful. I'm glad to hear it. My pregnancy was also a delight. That's not the experience of many of the girls and women I care for. Yes, girls too. Their stories, experiences, backgrounds and readiness for motherhood are all over the map, and each and every one of these special girls and women has made a choice that makes sense for them. As a provider, my job is to support, inform, and assist in their decision-making. Not make their decision. And it's damn sure not your place to either.

As an aside, I don't need to thank you for correcting an erroneous grammar mistake in the middle of this deeply important debate about our lives and rights. It also makes your attempt to lecture me about ethics mildly hilarious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't miscarriages considered abortions? My wife had 2 d&cs when the fetus failed to form and were shocked to see them discussed by staff as abortions. I'm assuming any change in law would add a law enforcement interrogation to the procedure if the procedure is even available? I don't think an abortion ban will be as popular as some people think

When taking a medical history we refer to any non-surviving pregnancy as an "Ab", or abortion. Unless it's medically relevant we don't discuss whether not not it was a termination of pregnancy or an unintended loss. So it's just semantics. The emotional dialogue re: abortion vs miscarriage is a semantic argument used by (usually) male politicians who often have no understanding of the physiology of pregnancy. See how this works? To most health care providers there aren't good guys and bad guys (or girls). It's about healthcare. That's why this whole "just take a bus to a blue state" nonsense makes me want to rip my hair out. I see 20 patients a week with knee pain from overdoing it on the elliptical and they're incensed when I can't get them an emergency MRI that day. But folks want women to travel across the state for a time-sensitive procedure usually requiring an overnight stay. I'd laugh if I wasn't already screaming.

If the conservatives do get an "abortion ban" in place, many of the right wing women are going to be shocked they will be tried for murder if they have a miscarriage or fetal death.

I don’t want to say I will relish that.

Because the flip side is that if they can force you to carry a pregnancy to term, what else can they force pregnant women to? Quit work? C-sections? No epidurals? And before you say, “that’s ridiculous, that’s unscientific and women are people, no one will tell me how to give birth because of politics,” remember that anti choice lawmakers are already making doctors lie to women before abortions.

Newsflash, conservative ladies: your male fellow conservatives don’t think you’re a full person. You will get ground under same as poor woman who needs an abortion.

This. I am pro life in the sense that I have and do support women who carry and give for adoption, and support people who adopt themselves etc. I think there is a lot of beauty in that choice.

BUT

I just can’t tell a woman what to do with her pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't miscarriages considered abortions? My wife had 2 d&cs when the fetus failed to form and were shocked to see them discussed by staff as abortions. I'm assuming any change in law would add a law enforcement interrogation to the procedure if the procedure is even available? I don't think an abortion ban will be as popular as some people think

When taking a medical history we refer to any non-surviving pregnancy as an "Ab", or abortion. Unless it's medically relevant we don't discuss whether not not it was a termination of pregnancy or an unintended loss. So it's just semantics. The emotional dialogue re: abortion vs miscarriage is a semantic argument used by (usually) male politicians who often have no understanding of the physiology of pregnancy. See how this works? To most health care providers there aren't good guys and bad guys (or girls). It's about healthcare. That's why this whole "just take a bus to a blue state" nonsense makes me want to rip my hair out. I see 20 patients a week with knee pain from overdoing it on the elliptical and they're incensed when I can't get them an emergency MRI that day. But folks want women to travel across the state for a time-sensitive procedure usually requiring an overnight stay. I'd laugh if I wasn't already screaming.

If the conservatives do get an "abortion ban" in place, many of the right wing women are going to be shocked they will be tried for murder if they have a miscarriage or fetal death.

I don’t want to say I will relish that.

Because the flip side is that if they can force you to carry a pregnancy to term, what else can they force pregnant women to? Quit work? C-sections? No epidurals? And before you say, “that’s ridiculous, that’s unscientific and women are people, no one will tell me how to give birth because of politics,” remember that anti choice lawmakers are already making doctors lie to women before abortions.

Newsflash, conservative ladies: your male fellow conservatives don’t think you’re a full person. You will get ground under same as poor woman who needs an abortion.

.

This.

Remember my mom was still resentful that she had to quit he really good job (for 1969) when I was born and could not go back; her job was not held for her after pregnancy. She never had a job as good and well earning for the rest of her working life.

There are reasons women fought for the workplace, business, and healthcare protections we have now.

Once conservative women vote to trust men with their bodies instead of trusting themselves to make the right decision, they will see howany more options get taken away.

And if I asked your mom today if she would rather have had you or that job, which do you think she’d say?

That's really an unfair question. Would you ask that of one of those girls who was kept in a basement and raped repeatedly and birthed children in secret (there's so many cases of them I don't need to state a specific one)? Hey, but look at those children, would you trade them in for your childhood and youth and young adulthood?

Once a child is here, the child is here. There's no going back. But a woman who has a zygote in her should have a choice whether to gestate that zygote into a child.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't miscarriages considered abortions? My wife had 2 d&cs when the fetus failed to form and were shocked to see them discussed by staff as abortions. I'm assuming any change in law would add a law enforcement interrogation to the procedure if the procedure is even available? I don't think an abortion ban will be as popular as some people think

When taking a medical history we refer to any non-surviving pregnancy as an "Ab", or abortion. Unless it's medically relevant we don't discuss whether not not it was a termination of pregnancy or an unintended loss. So it's just semantics. The emotional dialogue re: abortion vs miscarriage is a semantic argument used by (usually) male politicians who often have no understanding of the physiology of pregnancy. See how this works? To most health care providers there aren't good guys and bad guys (or girls). It's about healthcare. That's why this whole "just take a bus to a blue state" nonsense makes me want to rip my hair out. I see 20 patients a week with knee pain from overdoing it on the elliptical and they're incensed when I can't get them an emergency MRI that day. But folks want women to travel across the state for a time-sensitive procedure usually requiring an overnight stay. I'd laugh if I wasn't already screaming.

If the conservatives do get an "abortion ban" in place, many of the right wing women are going to be shocked they will be tried for murder if they have a miscarriage or fetal death.

I don’t want to say I will relish that.

Because the flip side is that if they can force you to carry a pregnancy to term, what else can they force pregnant women to? Quit work? C-sections? No epidurals? And before you say, “that’s ridiculous, that’s unscientific and women are people, no one will tell me how to give birth because of politics,” remember that anti choice lawmakers are already making doctors lie to women before abortions.

Newsflash, conservative ladies: your male fellow conservatives don’t think you’re a full person. You will get ground under same as poor woman who needs an abortion.

.

This.

Remember my mom was still resentful that she had to quit he really good job (for 1969) when I was born and could not go back; her job was not held for her after pregnancy. She never had a job as good and well earning for the rest of her working life.

There are reasons women fought for the workplace, business, and healthcare protections we have now.

Once conservative women vote to trust men with their bodies instead of trusting themselves to make the right decision, they will see howany more options get taken away.

And if I asked your mom today if she would rather have had you or that job, which do you think she’d say?

That's really an unfair question. Would you ask that of one of those girls who was kept in a basement and raped repeatedly and birthed children in secret (there's so many cases of them I don't need to state a specific one)? Hey, but look at those children, would you trade them in for your childhood and youth and young adulthood?

Once a child is here, the child is here. There's no going back. But a woman who has a zygote in her should have a choice whether to gestate that zygote into a child.

Yeah, it's not unlike asking what would have been had you not used that condom or taken that pill. Every month you have the potential to make life -- why don't you do it every single time you have the chance if that's your only freaking purpose?

[Anonymous]

And if I asked your mom today if she would rather have had you or that job, which do you think she’d say?

It's so sad that you think women have to make that choice.

[Anonymous]

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And if I asked your mom today if she would rather have had you or that job, which do you think she’d say?

That's the point. She shouldn't have had to choose between having her child or her job. Mothers can work. I'm rather appalled that you don't get that.

[Anonymous]

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And if I asked your mom today if she would rather have had you or that job, which do you think she’d say?

That's the point. She shouldn't have had to choose between having her child or her job. Mothers can work. I'm rather appalled that you don't get that.

You're missing the simple fact that "pro-life" people think women are nothing but incubators. You should want nothing more than to procreate.

[Anonymous]

I'm the pp, and my mom would have said she would have preferred to have me AND go back to her job after maternity leave.

But then, there was no maternity leave and she chose me (the baby) and regretted the loss of a good paying job for quite a while. She wanted both and you could not have both back then, especially if you were blue collar. My dad was a good guy who thankfully made enough for us to live on, but we didn't exactly get to go on many vacations or have a house with more than one bathroom.

Mom also had a friend pre Roe v. Wade who killed herself rather than have a baby as an "unwed mother."

Talk to some older women in their 80s+ out there. Once they get to know you, they'll tell you want it was like to be a woman in the old days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And if I asked your mom today if she would rather have had you or that job, which do you think she’d say?

Jesus, what a stupid question. It’s not an either or but you just admitted you think it should be. Conservative women are so wacky. NP.

Oh right. We can “have it all.” Silly little PP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And if I asked your mom today if she would rather have had you or that job, which do you think she’d say?

Jesus, what a stupid question. It’s not an either or but you just admitted you think it should be. Conservative women are so wacky. NP.

Oh right. We can “have it all.” Silly little PP

if having it all means not having a baby when I don’t want to, plus having a job to support the baby I DO want ... yes, I want to have it all. At a minimum I do not want the government telling me I can’t.

[Anonymous]

But this is the fallacy that is pushed on women. It's too much to ask to control the timing of our reproduction AND be economically independent, so don't try.

We're much easier to control that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And if I asked your mom today if she would rather have had you or that job, which do you think she’d say?

Jesus, what a stupid question. It’s not an either or but you just admitted you think it should be. Conservative women are so wacky. NP.

Oh right. We can “have it all.” Silly little PP

And I repeat: Conservatives think women are just incubators. No, you can't do anything else, you're a walking womb. Breed.

[Anonymous]

women should stop having sex with these men period. For fear of an unwanted pregnancy. Full stop. NO action so long as they want to control any woman's body. They get NO woman's body.