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If you weren't there to look in the toilet bowl you have no idea what it actually looked like. Period. No, you don't. Your experience is not this woman's. |
At what point does the product of a miscarriage become a human corpse, legally speaking? Certainly you're not saying all miscarriages must be handled as though it's a dead body? |
You have no idea whether this woman’s fetus has “gestated to 22 weeks.” It was dead, not viable and could have stopped typical development way before she delivered it. |
+1 Even the judge in this case punted on this question so it will be up to the grand jury. Ridiculous. Perhaps they can call in that Ohio legislator who tried to require doctors to transplant ectopic pregnancies into the uterus in the abortion ban that they passed as an expert witness. |
WHAT?!?! Is that where we’re headed as a country? Please tell me there isn’t a woman alive on this planet that would think the bolded is remotely okay.
Women, it’s important that we stick together, use our Power and not allow stupid clueless men to make terrible decisions that directly impact our health and future. Period. |
That’s where we ARE. Men with zero medical experience or expertise and minimal background—if any — in basic biology are trying to legislate women’s healthcare based on their very personal beliefs. The fun part is that while people in DC have no voting representation in Congress, our very lives are governed by legislators from other states — who believe all kinds of things that guide their votes. Based on the little that I know, the judge was right —in an ethical sense — to punt. I hope the grand jury has access to genuine expert witnesses, and will rely on their testimonies and not just on their own beliefs. |
Same here, except I flushed. I had no idea what I was supposed to do, but carrying that fetus in my arms would not have helped me (I realize everyone is different). This poor poor woman. Just another reason Ohio is what it is. |
That’s where we already are as a country. The stupid reimplantation amendment didn’t pass, but there’s stuff that’s almost that stupid in all of these trigger bans that automatically went into effect in the wake of Roe falling. That’s why most of the posters here who have been paying attention are guessing that she was sent home twice because her nonviable fetus still had a heartbeat and if that was the case she wouldn’t be a candidate for a therapeutic abortion. There are dozens of cases like this that have made the news throughout the ban states this past year. For that, the other posters here who haven’t been paying attention at all tattled to Jeff on us. |
Forgot the link for the reimplantation amendment. https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/new-ohio-bill-falsely-suggests-that-reimplantation-of-ectopic-pregnancy-is-possible/ |
That is correct. The fundie forced-birthers haaaaate media attention to the horrible cases they cause. Total denial. |
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I have a PhD, am a biomedical researcher, and am highly accomplished. I work on advances that may now help women (and men) in diagnosing and treating a range of medical conditions. I have tenure at an elite institution where I do this work.
20 years ago I had a stillbirth when i was traveling for work. I was traveling and in another country for work, giving a lecture about my research. This terrible process ended in a restroom at a public place. I was in a country that has been historically repulsed by abortion, and has been portrayed by the press as being cruel to women. When this happened I could not understand what was happening. I locked myself in the restroom. I was bleeding, and bleeding. I only wanted to get home to my family,and I though that if I could just get throug this I would get home to my family. I passed out. I can read this story and see how one would easily characterize my behavior as trying to "just get on with my day." Only difference between me and the woman facing felony charges is that I lost *a lot* of blood, and despite my desires, I ended up unconscious as opposed to "going about my normal day." I next remember being in an ambulance with paramedics. Who knows what I had left behind - it could easily have been the same things this woman left beind. Even in this most conservative of countries, where I was, I was treated humanely. A fetus was lost, yes. I was given surgery that prevented sepsis under the conditions, and able to recover. No one, in this most religious of countries, talked of a crime. I got to fly home. I now have two wonderful children, who were born healthy after those terrible days. The health system in that country treated me for free. They probably "unclogged" a toilet. I will never know, for no one ever asked. Thus, I could easily have been this woman, and perhaps, though I probably do not share my skin color with her, who would think that was relevant? In the moment, a purely primal, reptilian instinct overtook me, involving fear and trying to keep myself, and my family, intact. Perhaps the woman now charged is something else entirely, and really just wanted to drown out drugs, evil, whatever you are thinking. But until you have evidence of this, I also hope you will consider a little of what it is like to be in these shoes. And I will use the proceeds from the tens of patents I have been lucky enough to file and license in my career as a biomedical researcher to help women miserable enough to have to face these moments. If this woman has a gofundme page, or any other way to support the scared women who modern laws make scofflaws and much, much worse, I will be there. I am optimistic I am not alone in such a mission, though heartbroken my option is to write a check as a means of countering the scorn of our society in 2023 AD, vs doing nothing as people slander a women in terror and fear. I can pile the most horrible motives cast on this thread on a woman and still feel a need to support someone, and care of them in their darkest hour. God bless those of you lucky enough to be able to pass simplistic judgement on her without knowing any possible alternative, who do not know anything about what it is like to be "overcome with emotion" the article the OP mentions quotes. |
Wow thank you for sharing this powerful story. So very sorry for your loss and your traumatic experience. Thank you for leaning into it to do something good for others. Big hugs. |
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| Women with high risk pregnancies should leave the state. |
Better hope you don't get stopped on suspicion of travel for abortion. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/west-texas-county-bans-travel-roads-seeking-abortion-104256476#:~:text=LUBBOCK%2C%20Texas%20%2D%2D%20A%20Texas,Wade. |