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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Democrats don't use the hell out of this case all day every day for the next year, they are completely missing an opportunity[/quote]

they will

and every other women who brings a lawsuit

and as horrible as this is,[b] someone dying will be the ultimate rallying cry.[/b] It's a matter of time.[/quote]

I agree. I think a death is what it will take, as was the case in Ireland, one of the last developed countries to legalize abortion, when a woman died of septicemia after being denied an abortion while miscarrying at 17 weeks.

[i]How Savita Halappanavar’s Death Spurred Ireland’s Abortion Rights Campaign[/i]
Dr. Halappanavar’s death in 2012 at age 31 from septicemia — an infection she contracted after she was denied an abortion during a miscarriage — set off outrage across the country and gave momentum to a growing call for change. Dr. Halappanavar, a dentist, and her husband, an engineer, were living in Galway in 2012 and preparing for the birth of their first child. That all changed when, 17 weeks pregnant, Dr. Halappanavar went the hospital with back pain on Oct. 21 and doctors said she was having a miscarriage.

Dr. Halappanavar was told that her fetus would not survive — but that she could not be given an abortion, her husband said. Ireland, she was told, is “a Catholic country,” and it would be illegal to terminate the pregnancy while the fetus still had a heartbeat, her husband said. After being repeatedly refused an abortion, she waited days until the heartbeat stopped. The contents of her womb were removed on Oct. 27. By then she had an infection, and she died of septicemia the following day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/world/europe/savita-halappanavar-ireland-abortion.html

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