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Anonymous wrote:Any female who casts a vote for Republicans moving forward is brain dead

This. Women are a majority of the country and an even bigger majority of the people eligible to vote. Let’s get our sh*t together. No woman post-Trump and post-this who has a brain could remotely think the GOP their best interests at heart.

Anonymous wrote:Any female who casts a vote for Republicans moving forward is brain dead

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think this decision would force parents to allow invasive medical care for infants that are born with severe medical problems? I can see that happening. If you forced me to give birth to a child I knew had very little chance, could you force me to make that child suffer through surgeries and other interventions after birth?

This is all so messed up.

I doubt it. It's well-established that forced-birthers don't give a f** about babies after they are born.

No more a fact than if I claimed that abortionists like you don't care if babies live or die.

Actually completely different. An embryo is not a baby.

Fine. Abortionists like you can say you're pregnant with an embryo. Women i know say they're pregnant with a baby.

I am pro-choice and my BIL was pro-life. We both call our pregnancies “the baby”. One day, in SIL’s third trimester, BIL & SIL found out that the baby was developing without any brain. There was no hope that the baby would ever do more than live in a vegetative state for an undetermined amount of time - days, weeks, months, maybe a couple of years at best. The baby would require around the clock care-giving. BIL and SIL chose to have an abortion.

People who have abortions sometimes are aborting babies - they are often wanted pregnancies until something goes catastrophically wrong. BIL and SIL made the best possible choice for them and their future family, which includes 3 more babies that they had after their abortion. Babies that they never would have had but for abortion.

Abortion is pro-life, but it includes not only thinking about whether the baby lives or dies, but also what kind of quality of life the baby and family would have.

It's such a familiar story. SO MANY anti-abortionists actually turn out to believe in choice when they are faced with a terrible situation. Funny how that works.

Did SIL have an ultrasound at any point during her pregnancy? This is usually diagnosed very early

You make a good point for universal health care and universal paid sick leave so that all pregnant women can get the care and screening they need. Thanks.

Anonymous wrote:Aaand here's another GOP candidate for those of you saying there is fear mongering going on regarding what the right will do to contraception, gay marriage, etc. There are plenty of people like this who would absolutely take us back to the middle ages given the chance. These two don't even think birth control should be legal for married couples.

Anonymous wrote:Aaand here's another GOP candidate for those of you saying there is fear mongering going on regarding what the right will do to contraception, gay marriage, etc. There are plenty of people like this who would absolutely take us back to the middle ages given the chance. These two don't even think birth control should be legal for married couples.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think this decision would force parents to allow invasive medical care for infants that are born with severe medical problems? I can see that happening. If you forced me to give birth to a child I knew had very little chance, could you force me to make that child suffer through surgeries and other interventions after birth?

This is all so messed up.

I doubt it. It's well-established that forced-birthers don't give a f** about babies after they are born.

No more a fact than if I claimed that abortionists like you don't care if babies live or die.

Actually completely different. An embryo is not a baby.

Fine. Abortionists like you can say you're pregnant with an embryo. Women i know say they're pregnant with a baby.

I am pro-choice and my BIL was pro-life. We both call our pregnancies “the baby”. One day, in SIL’s third trimester, BIL & SIL found out that the baby was developing without any brain. There was no hope that the baby would ever do more than live in a vegetative state for an undetermined amount of time - days, weeks, months, maybe a couple of years at best. The baby would require around the clock care-giving. BIL and SIL chose to have an abortion.

People who have abortions sometimes are aborting babies - they are often wanted pregnancies until something goes catastrophically wrong. BIL and SIL made the best possible choice for them and their future family, which includes 3 more babies that they had after their abortion. Babies that they never would have had but for abortion.

Abortion is pro-life, but it includes not only thinking about whether the baby lives or dies, but also what kind of quality of life the baby and family would have.

It's such a familiar story. SO MANY anti-abortionists actually turn out to believe in choice when they are faced with a terrible situation. Funny how that works.

Did SIL have an ultrasound at any point during her pregnancy? This is usually diagnosed very early

I am often asked this Q. It rests on the premise that fetal abnormalities are known by the point of ultrasound and/or amniocentesis - which is absolutely medically wrong, but something we choose to believe as a culture because it would be terrifying to carry a wanted child through an entire pregnancy knowing that you really aren’t “safe” until the baby is actually born. Anencephaly due to failure of the neural tube to close properly is diagnosed early in pregnancy, but an- or micro-cephaly due to disruption of pregnancy by infectious agent (a virus) is usually not diagnosed until much later in pregnancy.

SIL had excellent medical care throughout pregnancy. The anencephaly was likely due to herpes virus interrupting the development of the baby’s brain in the third trimester. The vast majority of the cerebellum growth and differentiation happens in the 3rd trimester. The cerebellum produces all the higher order thinking. By contrast, the cerebrum (the brainstem) develops much earlier and controls all the automatic functions of the body. This baby would have been born with an intact cerebrum but little to no cerebellum, which meant the baby could have survived birth breathing and pooping/peeing and heart beating, but unable to ever move, feed independently or have any meaningful interaction or communication. The parents chose abortion.

There are a number of viruses in addition to herpes that can cause this kind of catastrophic disruption to fetal development - Zika, Toxoplasmosis (in cat poop), cytomegalovirus, rubella and syphilis.

I want to emphasize that cytomegalovirus, herpes and toxoplasmosis are very common - either in the world around us or already at significant prevalence in adult females who may or may not know they have these viruses laying dormant. The likelihood of one of these viruses activating and interfering with pregnancy development is extremely low but it’s basically a very low risk that applies to MANY pregnant women who have virtually NO WAY OF PREDICTING OR PREVENTING.

Why am I shouting that? Because when you take away 3rd trimester abortion for “health” reasons because you think pregnant women are somehow lying about their health issues which are not so serious or should have known earlier (which is what your post implies), you are forcing parents like my BIL and SIL to carry an anencephalic or micro encephalic baby to term and care for it for, perhaps years and years.

Not to quibble too much, but you have cerebrum and cerebellum reversed. Cerebrum is really what constitutes the two hemispheres. Cerebellum is the hindbrain.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile in Texas, a woman having a miscarriage was denied the medication to help it pass by a CVS pharmacy that said it couldn't be sure she wasn't using it to have an abortion.

A big middle finger to all of you who think banning abortion is a-okay. It's just going to get worse.

Dang. And it’s just going to get worse.

From a medical perspective, we're going to see more women die from incomplete miscarriages and infections/sepsis from carrying dead fetuses to term than we will from back alley abortions.

Even if you are against abortion, these nonsensically restrictive blanket rules/laws should terrify you. Any law that prevents a person from receiving lifesaving medical attention is a crime against humanity.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think this decision would force parents to allow invasive medical care for infants that are born with severe medical problems? I can see that happening. If you forced me to give birth to a child I knew had very little chance, could you force me to make that child suffer through surgeries and other interventions after birth?

This is all so messed up.

I doubt it. It's well-established that forced-birthers don't give a f** about babies after they are born.

No more a fact than if I claimed that abortionists like you don't care if babies live or die.

Actually completely different. An embryo is not a baby.

Fine. Abortionists like you can say you're pregnant with an embryo. Women i know say they're pregnant with a baby.

I am pro-choice and my BIL was pro-life. We both call our pregnancies “the baby”. One day, in SIL’s third trimester, BIL & SIL found out that the baby was developing without any brain. There was no hope that the baby would ever do more than live in a vegetative state for an undetermined amount of time - days, weeks, months, maybe a couple of years at best. The baby would require around the clock care-giving. BIL and SIL chose to have an abortion.

People who have abortions sometimes are aborting babies - they are often wanted pregnancies until something goes catastrophically wrong. BIL and SIL made the best possible choice for them and their future family, which includes 3 more babies that they had after their abortion. Babies that they never would have had but for abortion.

Abortion is pro-life, but it includes not only thinking about whether the baby lives or dies, but also what kind of quality of life the baby and family would have.

It's such a familiar story. SO MANY anti-abortionists actually turn out to believe in choice when they are faced with a terrible situation. Funny how that works.

Did SIL have an ultrasound at any point during her pregnancy? This is usually diagnosed very early

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think this decision would force parents to allow invasive medical care for infants that are born with severe medical problems? I can see that happening. If you forced me to give birth to a child I knew had very little chance, could you force me to make that child suffer through surgeries and other interventions after birth?

This is all so messed up.

I doubt it. It's well-established that forced-birthers don't give a f** about babies after they are born.

No more a fact than if I claimed that abortionists like you don't care if babies live or die.

Actually completely different. An embryo is not a baby.

Fine. Abortionists like you can say you're pregnant with an embryo. Women i know say they're pregnant with a baby.

I am pro-choice and my BIL was pro-life. We both call our pregnancies “the baby”. One day, in SIL’s third trimester, BIL & SIL found out that the baby was developing without any brain. There was no hope that the baby would ever do more than live in a vegetative state for an undetermined amount of time - days, weeks, months, maybe a couple of years at best. The baby would require around the clock care-giving. BIL and SIL chose to have an abortion.

People who have abortions sometimes are aborting babies - they are often wanted pregnancies until something goes catastrophically wrong. BIL and SIL made the best possible choice for them and their future family, which includes 3 more babies that they had after their abortion. Babies that they never would have had but for abortion.

Abortion is pro-life, but it includes not only thinking about whether the baby lives or dies, but also what kind of quality of life the baby and family would have.

It's such a familiar story. SO MANY anti-abortionists actually turn out to believe in choice when they are faced with a terrible situation. Funny how that works.

Did SIL have an ultrasound at any point during her pregnancy? This is usually diagnosed very early

I am often asked this Q. It rests on the premise that fetal abnormalities are known by the point of ultrasound and/or amniocentesis - which is absolutely medically wrong, but something we choose to believe as a culture because it would be terrifying to carry a wanted child through an entire pregnancy knowing that you really aren’t “safe” until the baby is actually born. Anencephaly due to failure of the neural tube to close properly is diagnosed early in pregnancy, but an- or micro-cephaly due to disruption of pregnancy by infectious agent (a virus) is usually not diagnosed until much later in pregnancy.

SIL had excellent medical care throughout pregnancy. The anencephaly was likely due to herpes virus interrupting the development of the baby’s brain in the third trimester. The vast majority of the cerebellum growth and differentiation happens in the 3rd trimester. The cerebellum produces all the higher order thinking. By contrast, the cerebrum (the brainstem) develops much earlier and controls all the automatic functions of the body. This baby would have been born with an intact cerebrum but little to no cerebellum, which meant the baby could have survived birth breathing and pooping/peeing and heart beating, but unable to ever move, feed independently or have any meaningful interaction or communication. The parents chose abortion.

There are a number of viruses in addition to herpes that can cause this kind of catastrophic disruption to fetal development - Zika, Toxoplasmosis (in cat poop), cytomegalovirus, rubella and syphilis.

I want to emphasize that cytomegalovirus, herpes and toxoplasmosis are very common - either in the world around us or already at significant prevalence in adult females who may or may not know they have these viruses laying dormant. The likelihood of one of these viruses activating and interfering with pregnancy development is extremely low but it’s basically a very low risk that applies to MANY pregnant women who have virtually NO WAY OF PREDICTING OR PREVENTING.

Why am I shouting that? Because when you take away 3rd trimester abortion for “health” reasons because you think pregnant women are somehow lying about their health issues which are not so serious or should have known earlier (which is what your post implies), you are forcing parents like my BIL and SIL to carry an anencephalic or micro encephalic baby to term and care for it for, perhaps years and years.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think this decision would force parents to allow invasive medical care for infants that are born with severe medical problems? I can see that happening. If you forced me to give birth to a child I knew had very little chance, could you force me to make that child suffer through surgeries and other interventions after birth?

This is all so messed up.

I doubt it. It's well-established that forced-birthers don't give a f** about babies after they are born.

No more a fact than if I claimed that abortionists like you don't care if babies live or die.

Actually completely different. An embryo is not a baby.

Fine. Abortionists like you can say you're pregnant with an embryo. Women i know say they're pregnant with a baby.

I am pro-choice and my BIL was pro-life. We both call our pregnancies “the baby”. One day, in SIL’s third trimester, BIL & SIL found out that the baby was developing without any brain. There was no hope that the baby would ever do more than live in a vegetative state for an undetermined amount of time - days, weeks, months, maybe a couple of years at best. The baby would require around the clock care-giving. BIL and SIL chose to have an abortion.

People who have abortions sometimes are aborting babies - they are often wanted pregnancies until something goes catastrophically wrong. BIL and SIL made the best possible choice for them and their future family, which includes 3 more babies that they had after their abortion. Babies that they never would have had but for abortion.

Abortion is pro-life, but it includes not only thinking about whether the baby lives or dies, but also what kind of quality of life the baby and family would have.

It's such a familiar story. SO MANY anti-abortionists actually turn out to believe in choice when they are faced with a terrible situation. Funny how that works.

Did SIL have an ultrasound at any point during her pregnancy? This is usually diagnosed very early

I am often asked this Q. It rests on the premise that fetal abnormalities are known by the point of ultrasound and/or amniocentesis - which is absolutely medically wrong, but something we choose to believe as a culture because it would be terrifying to carry a wanted child through an entire pregnancy knowing that you really aren’t “safe” until the baby is actually born. Anencephaly due to failure of the neural tube to close properly is diagnosed early in pregnancy, but an- or micro-cephaly due to disruption of pregnancy by infectious agent (a virus) is usually not diagnosed until much later in pregnancy.

SIL had excellent medical care throughout pregnancy. The anencephaly was likely due to herpes virus interrupting the development of the baby’s brain in the third trimester. The vast majority of the cerebellum growth and differentiation happens in the 3rd trimester. The cerebellum produces all the higher order thinking. By contrast, the cerebrum (the brainstem) develops much earlier and controls all the automatic functions of the body. This baby would have been born with an intact cerebrum but little to no cerebellum, which meant the baby could have survived birth breathing and pooping/peeing and heart beating, but unable to ever move, feed independently or have any meaningful interaction or communication. The parents chose abortion.

There are a number of viruses in addition to herpes that can cause this kind of catastrophic disruption to fetal development - Zika, Toxoplasmosis (in cat poop), cytomegalovirus, rubella and syphilis.

I want to emphasize that cytomegalovirus, herpes and toxoplasmosis are very common - either in the world around us or already at significant prevalence in adult females who may or may not know they have these viruses laying dormant. The likelihood of one of these viruses activating and interfering with pregnancy development is extremely low but it’s basically a very low risk that applies to MANY pregnant women who have virtually NO WAY OF PREDICTING OR PREVENTING.

Why am I shouting that? Because when you take away 3rd trimester abortion for “health” reasons because you think pregnant women are somehow lying about their health issues which are not so serious or should have known earlier (which is what your post implies), you are forcing parents like my BIL and SIL to carry an anencephalic or micro encephalic baby to term and care for it for, perhaps years and years.

DP. It’s just so ridiculous you had to spell this out for people. Doctors are not performing abortions late in pregnancy for shits and giggles. Women are not having late term abortions because they were too stupid to get them sooner

I want to scream.

It's ridiculous that people think that we need to explain any of this to anyone who isn't the patient or doctor.

We don't need to justify our medical decisions to random, ignorant politicians or crazy religious extremists.

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It has to be explained because so many who are casually "pro life" (usually as part of a "god & guns" conservative Christian social identity) are utterly ignorant about the medical science and real world ramifications of the policy they are advocating or what the radical extremists they are voting for intend to do. They are quite literally ignorant fools who have neither the personal experience or knowledge about why women need abortions after the 20th week. 99% of those cases are because of health risks to the mom or major issues with the child not compatible with life.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile in Texas, a woman having a miscarriage was denied the medication to help it pass by a CVS pharmacy that said it couldn't be sure she wasn't using it to have an abortion.

A big middle finger to all of you who think banning abortion is a-okay. It's just going to get worse.

Dang. And it’s just going to get worse.