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In reply to the discussion: The real threat to abortion in Florida isn't an all-out ban [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)34. +++ a million. In this context, this type of compromise = appeasement = death.
It shouldn't. We should all be able to talk to each other in reasonable ways and come to reasonable understandings.
But we are not dealing with reasonable. We are dealing with people who rage about women having "sex without consequence" and publish doctors' addresses and movements so they can be shot to death.
We are dealing with a virtual ban in numerous states, and no sign of reasonableness on the part of anti-abortion activists anywhere on the horizon.
There is no way to recognize the "ethical concerns" of a movement whose end game is this:
Woman dies after abortion request 'refused' at Galway hospital
The husband of a pregnant woman who died in an Irish hospital has said he has no doubt she would be alive if she had been allowed an abortion.
Savita Halappanavar's family said she asked several times for her pregnancy to be terminated because she had severe back pain and was miscarrying.
Her husband told the BBC that it was refused because there was a foetal heartbeat.
Ms Halappanavar's death, on 28 October, is the subject of two investigations.
An autopsy carried out two days after her death found she had died from septicaemia, according to the Irish Times.
Ms Halappanavar, who was 31 and originally from India, was a dentist.
Praveen Halappanavar said staff at University Hospital Galway told them Ireland was "a Catholic country".
The husband of a pregnant woman who died in an Irish hospital has said he has no doubt she would be alive if she had been allowed an abortion.
Savita Halappanavar's family said she asked several times for her pregnancy to be terminated because she had severe back pain and was miscarrying.
Her husband told the BBC that it was refused because there was a foetal heartbeat.
Ms Halappanavar's death, on 28 October, is the subject of two investigations.
An autopsy carried out two days after her death found she had died from septicaemia, according to the Irish Times.
Ms Halappanavar, who was 31 and originally from India, was a dentist.
Praveen Halappanavar said staff at University Hospital Galway told them Ireland was "a Catholic country".
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-20321741

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Death by a thousand cuts. The "right to life" movement makes all kinds of noise
bullwinkle428
Jan 2016
#1
they have no interest in overturning Roe. they're achieving their goal w/o it.
nashville_brook
Jan 2016
#23
actually, HRC has done more than most to ensure that regulations/restrictions happened
nashville_brook
Jan 2016
#21
it' not a "hater's club" -- it's the truth, and you can ignore it if you like.
nashville_brook
Jan 2016
#24
there's no quotes from those sources. but, feel free to cast aspersions.
nashville_brook
Jan 2016
#27
compromise, in this arena, has led to the destruction of women's lives.
nashville_brook
Jan 2016
#25
+++ a million. In this context, this type of compromise = appeasement = death.
DirkGently
Jan 2016
#34
"Safe, legal and rare" is not just a "Clinton-era mantra". Obama has said it too.
Nye Bevan
Jan 2016
#11
I think one issue is that we Millennials have no memory of the world before Roe v. Wade.
Odin2005
Jan 2016
#19