I guess you haven't been following along, but I was responding to a claim that "over 10K ... women" "ble[d] out in a parking lot because of the loss of Roe v. Wade." I feel gross even writing those words because it'd be terrible if it were true, but there's just no way it is |
If by “bled out” I meant “having serious complications that the doctors were unable to treat” yes, that’s what I meant when I wrote that. Women have certainly died from the GOP’s deep contempt for women as expressed through forced birther laws. You think all the women who had complications recovered? You think they all had the same complications? Carmen Broeder, for example, will now suffer from heart disease for the rest of her life. Do you think that’s visible? Do you think all the women who have been made sterile are going to be visible, especially to someone like you who is deliberately not looking? And as far as the dead women go, I can’t blame their families for not coming forward. Look what happens when DonOLD and JD tell racist lies about Haitian immigrants. The Arlington Cemetery employee got assaulted by Trump staff and she’s not filing a complaint either because no one needs any right wing terrorists in their life. These policies are meant to punish and maim women wherever and whenever possible. No, it won’t be visible to you, but then you don’t think women are people so it’s all kind of a wash to you anyway. |
Wow you really think you’re smart, don’t you? |
I think I'm reasonably bright, but this isn't a sophisticated point |
I should disengage because it seems that you're just into having some free-floating abortion debate, but I'll give it one last go: some number of pregnancies will result in complications. Some smaller pregnancies will result in serious complications. Some smaller number will result in serious complications in the first one and a half trimesters. Some smaller number will result in serious complications in the first one and a half trimesters in a politically conservative state. Some smaller number will result in serious complications in the first one and a half trimesters in a politically conservative state and in a parking lot. You sensibly posit that many of these incidents will be tragically "invisible." To suggest that there are nevertheless so many such instances that an obscure conservative commentator will be reliably told of 10,000 is the stuff of fiction. I shudder for our discourse when abortion fan fiction is credulously believed by an appreciable number of people simply because it affirms their worldview. |
You should disengage because you’re a forced birther and you’re in the wrong. But stick around and learn something. In 2019 there were an estimated 5,507,000 pregnancies. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2023/20230412.htm#:~:text=The%20total%20estimated%20number%20of,2019%2C%20a%2012%25%20decline. Let’s just ectopic pregnancies as a complication, since they necessarily mean that the pregnancy is not going to term, one way or the other. There’s an average of 15.8 ectopic pregnancies per 1000 pregnancies (but that’s age adjusted and one source put the numbers closer to 19% in North America) https://www.thepermanentejournal.org/doi/10.7812/TPP/21.099#:~:text=The%20overall%20age%2Dadjusted%20incidence,0.001)%20(Table%201). Provided I have done the math right, that’s about 87,000 ectopic pregnancies per year. Not all of those are in forced birther states, of course. And that’s one complication. Unless you’re hanging out in ERs and L&D wards or the bathrooms and parking lots or women’s bathrooms, you would have no flipping clue what’s happening. None whatsoever. And as an avowed forced birther, it’s not like any of the literature you select is going to enlighten you. You’re just like that Trump guy casually eating fried food and talking out of your butt, uncaring about what women are going through because of your hateful politics. |
This is what concerns me. You seem like a smart enough person. But you don't seem to get the import of these numbers. If there are 90,000 ectopic pregnancies in the United States per year, how many of those do you think actually result in abortion-preventable fatal blood loss in the first one-and-a-half trimesters-- and in a parking lot in a politically conservative state, no less, among acquaintances of people who listen to this one particular conservative? Five strikes me as implausibly high, and five gets you one twentieth of one percent of the way there. |
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what was reported. McEntee received 10,000 RESPONSES to his claim that this never happens. No is claiming that there were 10,000 separate and distinct patients with instances of this happening. |
OMG If even one woman has suffered needlessly bec of Right wing conservative Christian male ideology then a federal ban is unacceptable! If you think they are stopping at contraceptions and abortion after Project 2025 is installed you are brainwashed. JD Vance is going to take Trumps place Peter Theil and his band of shits have a horrific plan for women. Wake up |
Lol. Okay, kiddo. Whether or not you can muddle through this, the blood is on your hands and on the hands of your fellow forced birthers whether or not you believe. |
This! Male voters - your loved ones will die if this comes to fruition. Start talking about it with other men. People > money |
Is this AI? |
Are you even listening to the OBGYNs who are living this nightmare? Several states have 6-week bans and some have total bans. That’s not just “pre-viability.” 6 weeks is before most women even know they are pregnant. So if you discover an ectopic pregnancy at week 8, your doctor is spending more time with their lawyer than they are with you because this procedure was not illegal anywhere until post-Dobbs. The laws are ridiculously vague (on purpose) to sow fear and uncertainty. And then introduce all the complications that are less clear cut than ectopic- doctors CANNOT uphold their Hippocratic oath in these scenarios. I think think the NY law would be the ideal. Legal up to viability and then broad (but not full) discretion after that for health of mother and fatal fetal reasons. |