Dp- she was saying “it’s not an abortion, because we only call it abortion if we don’t like the patient” |
She wasn't just a "pro-life advocate" though. She is Catherine Glenn Foster, an attorney with a degree from Georgetown Law Center and the president and CEO of Americans United for Life, an anti abortion LAW FIRM that writes model legislation for lawmakers to copy and introduce as bills in their own states. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/31/surprised-by-all-these-abortion-bans-meet-americans-united-life-most-significant-pro-life-group-youve-never-heard/ She seems to count as an expert in her field, and she is the one advising lawmakers in states across the country with this false information. They need better legal advice. |
Cognitive Dissonance. Forced Birthers view abortion as a black or white issue. All abortion is evil. All people who have abortions are murdering children. Full stop. They literally can’t deal with a situation so horrific that it raises doubts as to whether each and every abortion is evil. They are so enmeshed in their world view that they can’t accept that there are grey areas. So rather than changing their world view to in some cases abortions are necessary,” they just deny that “good” or necessary abortions at all. |
ugh. then I guess it is a rhetorical device ie a lie. |
Because it's only abortion if it's done to a dirty dirty whore. If it isn't, then it's "you don't understand, it's different". |
“The only moral abortion is my abortion” is said so much that it’s literally a cliche in the field. https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/ Abortion is a fact and it is a godsend. I’ve never needed one and literally the only one I’ve know of personally was a “you have this abortion or your placenta will eat your organs and you will bleed to death” one, but oh my god abortion is such an important tool, which is why misogynists hate it. What these forced birthers want to do is homicide, and they think they can somehow magic themselves out of this, that exceptions will be around for them. I really wish that the clinics these forced birther women will travel to for their moral abortions check people’s social media and deny services if someone is an open forced birther. Take your own medicine, ladies. |
Who is going to want to set up or join practices in these states? There will a declining birth rate in these repressive, anti doctor, anti women states. |
| Cons are missing the point. If the right to have an abortion is not protected by law, there will always be cases like this, whether or not the hospital, or lawyers, or doctor’s misread the law in their states (which didn’t happen here anyway, Ohio politicians just want to deflect, but the problem remains that abortion is not accessible in that state). Abortion needs to be a protected healthcare decision that remains between doctor and patient. Period. |
I think you are being too generous in your assessment. Forced birthers know these kinds of cases happen, they just don’t care. |
But if we keep going to the press with all the abortion stories that will help the cause. At least until midterm voting is over. That plus 2-4 person mass shootings every day should help. |
OMG did you see the video on the site! The group says they want abortion abolition, not state’s right to decide. This ruling hasn’t settled anything on either side which was one of the arguments of supreme court that even 50 years after Roe, it wasn’t fully accepted. How has this made anything better? Now, both sides are unsatisfied. |