The Pro-Fetus Movement Doesn't Give a Shit About the Child

[ETStevens]

This is a about punishing the woman for getting pregnant, period! That is the thinking of men like Kavanaugh and the others in the Federalist Society.


But moreover, the Alabama law will mostly hurt poorer women. Women with money or a rich man who wants to "get rid of the problem" will go to Europe or Canada and have a safe abortion.

Desperate women will only be able to seek solutions that will kill them, but it will be "their" fault.

Such good Christians, those Republicans are!

[mr_lebowski]

1. Might want to proofread that headline ;) (nt)

[ETStevens]

2. I refuse to call it "Pro Life". 😉

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Pro-Child Alabama has a higher infant mortality rate than. . . . Sri Lanka!

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Of the 12 states ranked highest in infant mortality rates, all with rates of 7.0 or higher, 11 are described by the abortion rights organization NARAL as imposing “severely restricted access” on abortions. The one exception, West Virginia, is listed as having “restricted access,” a notch better. But NARAL reports that 90% of women in the state live in counties without a single abortion clinic.

By contrast, of the four states with the best infant mortality rates, all at 4.2 or better—California and Washington offer “strongly protected access,” NARAL says, and New Hampshire and Massachusetts “some access.” But access to abortion clinics in all four is strong—only 5% of women in California live in a county without a single clinic, followed by 14% in Massachusetts, 15% in Washington and 30% in New Hampshire.

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-anti-abortion-infant-mortality-20190515-story.html

In Alabama, nine out of 1,000 infants died before celebrating their first birthday in 2016.

That's a higher infant mortality rate than Bahrain, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ukraine and many other developing countries across the globe, according to the CIA's World Factbook.

Alabama's relatively high infant mortality rate—second only to Mississippi in the United States—also diverges along racial lines: Black babies in Alabama died at three times the rate of white babies in 2015, according to data gathered by the Alabama Department of Public Health presented by AL.com earlier this year.

https://www.newsweek.com/alabama-poverty-infant-mortality-rate-745512

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[UniteFightBack]

4. You mean the forced birth movement? No they only give a fuck about the birth not what happens

after. I'm done with 'pro life'....I'm pro life. Fuck them. They are anti choice and pro forced birth.

[lindysalsagal]

5. Too generous: If they were pro-fetus, they'd welcome all mexicans in the hopes they'd make

more fetuses for gawd.

All total bs.

Also, they'd want to feed and house and clothe and help the pregnant women. They don't.

[Opel_Justwax]

6. There are many US States that will allow abortion if Roe is overturned.

California and New York are just two of them. If Row is overturned that doesn't mean all abortion in the USA will be outlawed. I'm not worried about Roe being overturned because Justice John Roberts doesn't think they should overturn precedent. YMMV.