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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't remember if I read it here or elsewhere, but Mississippi has a number of hospital systems that are closing delivery departments. It does not look good the way things are going.[/quote]

Yes, Singing River Gulfport closed theirs 4/1. They say they hope it will be temporary but we shall see. There are 4 or 5 others who have ceased operations in the state.

Ochsner stopped delivering in July 2022 after the only obstetrician they had on staff left, and Greenwood Leflore closed its L&D in October 2022. DRMC, which is located in a very, very impoverished area, closed its NICU, too. Any babies needing critical treatment have to be taken about 2 hours away to the University of Mississippi hospital center.

[b]It's insane because Mississippi has the highest fetal mortality rate AND highest infant mortality rate in the entire nation! [/b][/quote]

So so sad.

Why do Republicans hate women so much? I don't get it. 
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Their misogyny is rooted in their superstitions. Literally, they literally believe a Bronze Age document that women are the cause of humanity’s downfall. Plus they enjoy being served by women, as so many conservative religious women happily do. They can get more women to serve them if they make enough of them powerless and miserable. Hence: hating women and punishing them. [/quote]

Respectfully disagree. The people in power aren’t religious and their misogyny isn’t biblical.

Republicans hate women because women don’t vote for Republicans the way men do. Even taking out abortion, on issues like school funding and public safety nets, women voted more for Democrats than men did.

So, if you want to make it harder for women to vote, it’s better that they be poor, have children (and therefore childcare) which make it hard to reach polling places, be consumed with mundane issues men spend zero time on (will I be able to access basic healthcare in an emergency) and yeah, in a pinch, a dead woman is more likely to be a Democratic voter than a Republican one so if some extra women die that’s all better for their numbers.

Saying this is about their religion gives them a pass I don’t think they deserve. They want women dead, or poor, or struggling, because women are a threat to their power. Period. [/quote]
It is their religion, in their own words. It’s not a pass; in fact it makes it even worse that we’re being held hostage to the superstitions of a few people who spent decades amassing power, rearranging things to suit themselves and propagandizing. But it is absolutely is based in these people’s beliefs. [/quote]

So here’s a link to stories of people of the same religion actively helping women access safe abortion care:

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/19/529175737/50-years-ago-a-network-of-clergy-helped-women-seeking-abortion

Rabid anti-abortion sentiment was seen as weird and Catholic. A minister went in front of the Illinois legislature advocating for safe and legal abortion. He was not a fringe minister.

I’m not saying no one who opposes abortion does so on religious grounds. Just that the lawmakers— the people
Actively disenfranchising women— are not doing so out of religious conviction, they’re doing so out of an attempt to keep women powerless. 
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