Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:59
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
Anonymous wrote:Tens of thousands of babies are alive who would not be without these bills.
And how do you know this? What facts support your tens of thousands?
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:54
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tens of thousands of babies are alive who would not be without these bills.
We can have nuance on abortion and fetal development as a continuum, as without it we'd be banning IVF and keeping fertilized embryos alive indefinitely just because, which is ridiculous.
We don't have laws that force women to donate organs even when it would save their dying child, and so, we also should not have laws that force women to donate their body to sustain another life for 9 months.
And we certainly should NOT have laws that cause doctors to have to pause and consider lawyer input before proceeding to save a life which is how it is in TX and some other states right now. Curious how their exceptions will apply to situations such as a woman who is medically stable, but is diagnosed with cancer. Do we force her to wait for the cancer to spread before we allow abortion? Can't do chemo in the 1st trimester. I'm sure the PP believes the only answer is for a woman to sacrifice her own life as a dutiful sacrificial lamb though.
Of course they’d call for the woman to sacrifice herself. How is some barren church lady going to find the “baby that God intended for them” if the real mother doesn’t die?
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:40
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
Anonymous wrote:My cousin and her husband live in TX because they both work at NASA.
She has a high-risk pregnancy, so after her first trimester, she chose to come back to MD to live with her parents just in case something goes wrong. Her husband flies out every week.
What's interesting is that in 2020 they both were Republicans and were Republicans for many years. Now my cousin identifies as independent. I'm not sure what her husband identifies as, but I know in the last election he voted for Harris.
The abortion ban is flipping more GOP members than they realize, IMO.
That’s the thing about high risk pregnancies - you never know when they’re going to turn south, and all the money in the world isn’t enough to get you to someplace like Maryland on a moment’s notice. How very lucky for them they had someplace they could bail to and the means to maintain their family in the meantime. Most women do not.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:36
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
Anonymous wrote:My cousin and her husband live in TX because they both work at NASA.
She has a high-risk pregnancy, so after her first trimester, she chose to come back to MD to live with her parents just in case something goes wrong. Her husband flies out every week.
What's interesting is that in 2020 they both were Republicans and were Republicans for many years. Now my cousin identifies as independent. I'm not sure what her husband identifies as, but I know in the last election he voted for Harris.
The abortion ban is flipping more GOP members than they realize, IMO.
Not enough, clearly.
I've said before, no man who loves his wife, daughter, sister, would support what these backward states are doing.
Iowa loses 75% of its medical students who choose to not stay in IA to practice.
Iowa has the fewest OBGYNs per capita of any state. Only a quarter of [med students] - just over 40 students out of 163 - will train in Iowa.
https://www.kcrg.com/2025/03/21/majority-univ-iowa-med-students-not-staying-iowa-their-residencies-lawmakers-propose-solutions/
Texas has similar issues.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-ob-gyn-doctor-training-60-minutes/
Last year [2023], the number of OB-GYN resident applicants in Texas dropped 16%.
This is what happens when law makers interject themselves into medical care, and don't think things through.
Talk about a death panel.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:11
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
My cousin and her husband live in TX because they both work at NASA.
She has a high-risk pregnancy, so after her first trimester, she chose to come back to MD to live with her parents just in case something goes wrong. Her husband flies out every week.
What's interesting is that in 2020 they both were Republicans and were Republicans for many years. Now my cousin identifies as independent. I'm not sure what her husband identifies as, but I know in the last election he voted for Harris.
The abortion ban is flipping more GOP members than they realize, IMO.
She has a high-risk pregnancy, so after her first trimester, she chose to come back to MD to live with her parents just in case something goes wrong. Her husband flies out every week.
What's interesting is that in 2020 they both were Republicans and were Republicans for many years. Now my cousin identifies as independent. I'm not sure what her husband identifies as, but I know in the last election he voted for Harris.
The abortion ban is flipping more GOP members than they realize, IMO.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 11:00
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tens of thousands of babies are alive who would not be without these bills.
And a significant number of those babies are unwanted and will grow up to be criminals or at l ast severely damaged.
And lots of women are dead. Oh, I forgot, women don't matter. Only fetuses.
One female voter is worth a thousand worthless babies
Anonymous
03/24/2025 10:48
Subject: Re:Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
They only care because the doctors are fed up, and they are packing up and leaving and shutting down birthing wards in the process.
It’s one thing for a rich woman to have to take a girls vacation to NYC to get her completely moral abortion, but it’s another thing entirely to have to leave the state or wait hours on end just to see an OB for a regular checkup.
In other words, it affects them now. Don’t misconstrue this as the GOP actually caring about what happens to poor women. They’d kill them every day if they could. They just don’t like the inconveniences it is presenting for them.
It’s one thing for a rich woman to have to take a girls vacation to NYC to get her completely moral abortion, but it’s another thing entirely to have to leave the state or wait hours on end just to see an OB for a regular checkup.
In other words, it affects them now. Don’t misconstrue this as the GOP actually caring about what happens to poor women. They’d kill them every day if they could. They just don’t like the inconveniences it is presenting for them.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 10:37
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
Anonymous wrote:Tens of thousands of babies are alive who would not be without these bills.
We can have nuance on abortion and fetal development as a continuum, as without it we'd be banning IVF and keeping fertilized embryos alive indefinitely just because, which is ridiculous.
We don't have laws that force women to donate organs even when it would save their dying child, and so, we also should not have laws that force women to donate their body to sustain another life for 9 months.
And we certainly should NOT have laws that cause doctors to have to pause and consider lawyer input before proceeding to save a life which is how it is in TX and some other states right now. Curious how their exceptions will apply to situations such as a woman who is medically stable, but is diagnosed with cancer. Do we force her to wait for the cancer to spread before we allow abortion? Can't do chemo in the 1st trimester. I'm sure the PP believes the only answer is for a woman to sacrifice her own life as a dutiful sacrificial lamb though.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 10:35
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
This is what Republicans voted for.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 09:46
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tens of thousands of babies are alive who would not be without these bills.
Jfc you are dumb
DP. Like it or not, for some people, this means something.
So we can take away the DOE? So they can work in factories?
Anonymous
03/24/2025 09:00
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
The people in Texas keep voting for these disgusting men to represent them in both the state house and the federal congressional house. Gerrymandering be damned, their statewide representation such as governor and senators are also voted in by Texans. They don’t care until like this congressmen someone they know is affected by this ungodly law. This representative said he wants to change the law because he has friends whose wives and daughters are now infertile because they did not receive immediate care during a complicated pregnancy. Now he cares. Fuuck him and all those who supported him. And he still stands by his original position on abortion. He just wants to clarify the law so that doctors have a clearer of understanding when to provide medical care to a dying, pregnant, septic woman.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 08:44
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
People in Texas need to remove this Rep. and others. They should paint him and others as the architect of women’s death. Who constantly and needlessly interject themselves into situations of which they have no knowledge or understanding, failing to listen to reason and inevitably cause chaos, destruction and death. One who only now seeks a clarification to ease conscience not because they actually care.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 08:41
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tens of thousands of babies are alive who would not be without these bills.
You want them to be alive so they can be slaves or starve to death.
Or get shot in their classroom, or die from eating contaminated meat, or sent to invade Greenland, or turned into breeding stock at the age of 12. The GOP stops caring once they’re born.
Look at child mortality rates through ancient times through the early 1900s. And child labor, and wars, and violence throughout human history. Obviously mindless gun deaths are tragic and should be prevented but in objective terms, this isn’t any worse of a time to be born than in any other time in human history. I don’t agree with the logic that we should be mass killing fetuses to prevent suffering they may or may not experience later in their lives. If suffering is sooooo bad then let’s just nuke the whole planet and be done with it.
ie, Rs are fine with infants dying and child slave labor because history tells us that children survived slave labor, abuse, and harsh living conditions.... wow, they read a history book and spun it around to fit their narrative.
Rs have become cold with zero compassion.
-former R who used to be "pro-life" until I realized their version of "pro life" was just "pro birthers" and about "punishing them whores"
Anonymous
03/24/2025 08:37
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
Anonymous wrote:Infant mortality rates have increased in Texas.
Maternal deaths have increased.
Teen birth rates have increased.
All of that bodes so well for the state. /s
According to some R politician, they need more teen pregnancies because they need more real Americans to do the grunt work and get paid minimum wage.
Anonymous
03/24/2025 07:11
Subject: Texas Republicans starting to regret killing and maiming pregnant women
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tens of thousands of babies are alive who would not be without these bills.
You want them to be alive so they can be slaves or starve to death.
Or get shot in their classroom, or die from eating contaminated meat, or sent to invade Greenland, or turned into breeding stock at the age of 12. The GOP stops caring once they’re born.
Look at child mortality rates through ancient times through the early 1900s. And child labor, and wars, and violence throughout human history. Obviously mindless gun deaths are tragic and should be prevented but in objective terms, this isn’t any worse of a time to be born than in any other time in human history. I don’t agree with the logic that we should be mass killing fetuses to prevent suffering they may or may not experience later in their lives. If suffering is sooooo bad then let’s just nuke the whole planet and be done with it.
We are getting close to this being the best option.... but please do continue on your soapbox while you sit in your comfy house eating bon buns while children all over the world suffer.