TX woman was forced to carry her dead fetus for two weeks after miscarrying due to ban (CNN)

[Nevilledog]

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[EnergizedLib]

1. Okay

Dems better be running these stories in Texas and campaigning on stories like this. Or else, we are screwed.

There must be reform to these heinous laws. That’s non-negotiable.

[Hekate]

2. Aside from the sheer personal horror of walking around with 10 pounds of dead stuff inside you...

…. (Fetus plus placenta plus water) — kindly know that it rots. It decays. It will kill the mother, given time.

The horror, the horror.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. I saw that segment this morning.

This is what the news needs to be showing, not all the religious nutbags and their "deeply-held beliefs".

These are ordinary people whose lives and families get ruined by fanatics and their lust to rule everyone else's lives.

[uponit7771]

14. +1

[Karma13612]

4. Pain,fever,sepsis,death. End of story. Husband loses wife. Children lose their mum.

where is the fecking AMA. This is against the hypocratic oath.
The fetus is dead. Not treating the mother is tantamount to homicide.


These are human rights violations. LIFE,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Beto needs to hammer this hard. Texas has to turn blue.

[tulipsandroses]

6. Just sickening. The horror stories shouldn't be ignored

Soon, They’ll be talking about stop politicizing tragedy as if it wasn’t their politics causing tragedy.
MSNBC had a story about a woman who miscarried at 16 weeks. They knew the fetus was not viable. The doctors did not perform the D&C, instead labor was induced and she went through hours of labor unnecessarily delivering a dead fetus. Instead of the normal 15 minute D&C procedure. The doctor said he didn’t know if her screams were from mental anguish or physical pain.

[Solly Mack]

7. They don't care if people die.

They'll come up with some way to blame the person who dies.

[Celerity]

8. this is fucking insane

[dalton99a]

9. What kind of fucked-up god tells people to do this?

[uponit7771]

10. K&R, this level of GZP ghoulishness should be reported often

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. The radicalized Republican party created these horror stories and should answer for them.

[Novara]

12. And the Dems need to keep hammering this

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Roe, Roe, Roe your vote against theocracy ...

Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy

[yardwork]

15. Are Democrats running ads on this? If not, why not?

[XanaDUer2]

17. I say this all the time

And ads on saving social security...etc al. Why don't we do this?

[HUAJIAO]

18. Most Dems just don't know how to "message." NO CLUE !!

[XanaDUer2]

19. Agreed

Republicans do. They'll keep winning, too. I'm so sick of saying this

[msfiddlestix]

16. Outrageous. What happened after the Two Weeks?

Did she end up traveling to another state to get the procedure performed?

Or did Texas give her their approval to have it performed by her doctor or local clinic in state?

[ck4829]

20. K&R

[colorado_ufo]

21. The "pro life" group needs to be challenged with

bringing the fetus back to life.

[Hela]

22. Why is removing a DEAD fetus considered an abortion?

They're not killing it. If they can show/certify that the fetus is dead, they should be able to remove it asap.

I don't understand these doctors who won't advocate for their patients. Just once, I'd like to see someone step up and say, "Yes, I removed the dead fetus and tissue before it killed my patient so she will be able to get pregnant again if she wants to."

How do these pro-birth idiots not understand that infections related to failed pregnancies and carrying around dead tissue can scar the reproductive system and cause damage that would prevent future births? If they were REALLY pro-life, they'd do everything they could to protect the childBEARER and not their no-longer-viable, imaginary babies.

Grrrrrr.

[dlk]

23. There's never a shortage of women haters

And they never take a day off.

[pfitz59]

24. The GOP is a Death Cult

and they hate women

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. "The Bible tells them so" ...

[...]
Male female relationships in the Bible are determined by a property ethic. In the Ten Commandments, the prohibition against coveting a neighbor’s wife is part of a broader prohibition against coveting property that belongs to another man: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor” (Exodus 20:17NIV). Under Levitical law, men have legal rights that guard against theft and property damage, including damage to women. Coerced sex is considered wrong only when it occurs outside of the contractual agreements men have with each other. In such cases, the punishments for rape have to do not with compassion or trauma to the woman herself but with honor, tribal purity, and a sense that a used woman is damaged goods. A rapist can be forced, essentially, to buy his victim. By contrast, a woman who voluntarily gives up her purity may be killed because she has transformed herself from a family asset to a liability.
[...]
What the Bible Says About Rape and Rape Babies
By Valerie Tarico, Psychologist and "Former Evangelical"

[ From 2012. The original contains links ]

[Tickle]

25. I not so sure this was because of the ban

In 1988 in the commonwealth of Massachusetts my cousin was 8 months pregnant and her fetus died. Her Dr. made her wait until her body aborted the child. I thought she was going to have a nervous break down it was a horrible time for her

[ramapo]

27. WTF?

And why aren’t TX women (and men) not in the streets with pitchforks over this?

Is apathy that endemic?