sick asshole NRL Will Brewer wants a woman be bleeding out before they can receive abortion care

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

In Tennessee, Republican lawmakers are considering whether patients should be forced to continue dangerous pregnancies, even while miscarrying, under the state’s abortion ban — and how close to risking death such patients need to be before a doctor can legally intervene.

At a legislative hearing last week, a lobbyist who played a dominant role in crafting the state’s abortion legislation made his preference clear: A pregnant patient should be in the process of an urgent emergency, such as bleeding out, before they can receive abortion care.

Some pregnancy complications “work themselves out,” Will Brewer, who represents the local affiliate of the anti-abortion organization National Right to Life, told a majority-male panel of lawmakers Feb. 14. When faced with a patient’s high-risk condition, doctors should be required to “pause and wait this out and see how it goes.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-lobbyists-oppose-new-life-saving-exceptions-abortion-ban

Brewer’s position appears to be out of step with public opinion on abortion, even in a deeply red state. A recent poll found about 75% of Tennesseans support abortion exceptions, including for pregnancies caused by rape and incest.

Yet his organization exerts outsize influence on Republican state politics. Tennessee Right to Life issues an annual scorecard rating lawmakers on their fealty to “pro-life” positions and plows money into primary campaigns to unseat candidates viewed as insufficiently loyal. Already, they retracted the endorsement of one Republican lawmaker who publicly advocated for clear medical exceptions.

Signs of frustration emerged over the course of the hearing as lawmakers grilled Brewer on how his preferred positions may harm pregnant patients and accused him of trying to intimidate legislators.

[Firestorm49]

1. WTF IS NRL? God I hate acronyms.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. national right to life

[scarletlib]

15. National Right to Life

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Fucking mutant.

[onecaliberal]

4. State sanctioned murder.

[Girard442]

5. The principle is that 50 women should die lest one slutty-slut get away...

...with having sex.

[Lars39]

6. I can't type what I want to happen to Will Brewer.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. The sad thing is, they themselves will NEVER experience

this. Perhaps if one of them had a wife, sister, or daughter who has that experience, they'd finally get a clue.

[Arazi]

10. Nah, Steve Scalise was literally blown to bits by a gun

And he’s still a jackal about others “enjoying” that same fate.

They’re cruel ghouls, especially when it comes to girls and women suffering. Probably getting boners right now contemplating the bitter horror of 10 yr old girls giving birth

[GenThePerservering]

8. We're disposable NT

[IcyPeas]

9. "Some pregnancy complications "work themselves out," reminds me of the idiot...

who said women don't really get pregnant if they are raped . He said something like ... a woman's body knows how to shut that thing down.

I forget who said it.

Politicians should get the F out of womens healthcare.

[Celerity]

11. Todd Akin, 2012 US Senate candidate from Missouri

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/19/republican-todd-akin-rape-pregnancy

[IcyPeas]

12. Yes. Him. Thanks.

[scarletlib]

14. That is literally a Medieval belief.

Read a book on Medieval life years ago. They got their medical theories from Galen. Neither Galen nor the Medieval doctors understood anything about human anatomy, especially women.

Amazing some idiots still believe this crap.

[NickB79]

13. Some complications do work themselves out

Once you lose enough blood, your blood pressure drops to zero and you do stop bleeding out.