https://twitter.com/musclesnnursing/status/1548740495089827840?s=21&t=AKbhYI4pMY8JGoOq_KoK5g
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Why can’t we get the fetus an AR-15 so it can defend itself from its mother?
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1549725811766427649?s=20&t=CQC5b-NBvHOSEKuF1WPZ-Q
Finally, a defamation suit I can get fully behind.
Lawbros, does this guy have qualified immunity or some similar shit?
Who cares what the law actually says if the judge will just play Calvinball?
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True. Nevertheless, I’m curious.
Checking in on what the freeze peach brigade says about this
Library workers across Oklahoma’s Metropolitan Library System (MLS) were shocked this week after receiving instructions to avoid using the word “abortion” and not to help patrons locate abortion-related information on either library computers or their own devices. Workers were warned that they could be held legally liable and face penalties under the state’s abortion laws.
They can still get a court order from a dipshit judge, so the executive order is more like a speed bump if some DA wants to start going after these women and their doctors.
In China, national law does not explicitly ban unmarried people from services like fertility treatments, and simply states that a “husband and wife” can have up to three children.
In practice, however, hospitals and other institutions implement the regulations in a way that requires people to show a marriage license. Unmarried women who choose to have children have struggled to access public benefits like maternity leave or coverage for prenatal exams.
After Roe ’s fall, ethics committees are taking on a new responsibility: determining whether a pregnant patient suffering a medical emergency may lawfully obtain an abortion. This task is actually a throwback to the 1960s and early 1970s, when states required hospitals to use “abortion committees” that decided when a pregnancy was dangerous enough to merit termination. The Supreme Court struck down those laws in a companion case to Roe , finding them “unduly restrictive of the patient’s rights and needs.” That decision, of course, has now been overturned. So, in 2022, committees formed for different purposes are suddenly undertaking a job that had been deemed unconstitutional since 1973: giving an up-or-down vote on an emergency abortion.
The fundamental problem facing these committees is that the current crop of abortion bans were written with the most cramped and ambiguous health exceptions imaginable. Many of these laws allow termination only in the case of a genuine medical emergency—a term that is not defined, but suggests the patient’s life must be in imminent peril. GOP lawmakers have consistently rejected a broader exception for the mother’s “health” on the grounds that it creates a loophole allowing “abortion on demand.” The Susan B. Anthony list, a prominent anti-abortion group, has condemned any “health exception” as “a dangerous carveout” that makes “abortion available throughout all of pregnancy without any meaningful restriction.”
Hospitals are thus left to interpret draconian laws that ban abortion except when necessary to “save the life” or “prevent the death” of a pregnant woman. But when is a patient sufficiently close to death to justify termination? When her pregnancy has a 10 percent chance of killing her? 50 percent? 90? That, increasingly, is a question for the hospital ethics committee.
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Remember when Republicans were against death panels?
Yeah, me either!
There was a WaPo story about a woman who thought about getting abortion but because of Texas’ abortion ban ended up having twins and didn’t regret it.
On the other hand there are women like this who the doctor’s say that they’re baby is straight up going to die after birth and, because of abortion bans, would be forced to carry a fetus to term, with a high chance of complications, and an almost certainity of the child’s death
As they pulled into the parking lot, they drove by a man with signs showing dead fetuses.
“Are all of you OK with killing babies?” he shouted into a megaphone.
He approached Ms. Underwood’s parents’ car, and her mother rolled down the window.
“We’re on the same side of this as you,” her mother said. “We don’t support abortion, but the doctors said our baby is going to die.”
“You trust doctors more than God?” he replied.
The couple walked side-by-side up a steep hill to the clinic entrance. She wore headphones to drown out the protesters.
