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The GOP has been drooling over the prospect of putting up a state constitution amendment restricting abortion in PA. They presently control the state senate but we’re drooling over taking the house as well as two special elections took place for house seats. One was a lock for the GOP, but the other was in Delaware County, which switched over to Democrat less than 5 years ago.
The resources poured into this election were impressive from both sides for what is a minor seat. But the local Dems did not want to be playing the New York State Dem’s lazy games. The Democrats ran on the idea that the GOP would try to restrict abortion if they won and not too much else. The GOP candidate, while well supported, was playing defense poorly. Literally one of their ads was “aww no…if we win we won’t try to restrict abortion ‘cause the Democratic governor would veto us!”. Not a convincing argument when they tried multiple time to restrict abortion with the previous democratic governor even before RvW was overturned. The GOP gave up this tactic in the last two weeks and just tried to run on law and order nonsense they love so much. Even at the end nothing on the GOP candidates ads, placards, signs, and whatnot mentioned she was a GOP candidate. |
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The story of Baby Milo.
Last November a Florida couple discovered that their baby had a fatal fetal abnormality, but they were denied an abortion in accordance with DeSantis's appeal to the misogynistic godbotherers. Deborah Dobert was forced to carry the pregnancy to 37 weeks. Their baby lived for 99 minutes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...borah-dorbert/ But heh, a win for the "pro-lifers". :rolleyes: |
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Comment from Florida state Rep Jenna Persons-Mulicka, co-sponsor of fifteen week abortion ban: Quote:
BTW the newer law is even more restrictive, |
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This is despicable!
From https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/25/caitlin-bernard-indiana-abortion-rape-victim/ Quote:
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These pissant republicans can't wait to score political points. What needs to happen is for someone to go after the Indiana School of Medicine. Their OB/GYN docs should go somewhere else, and get the school decertified. There should be consequences. |
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...-applications/ "States that have enacted abortion bans saw a 10.5 percent drop in applicants for obstetrics and gynecology residencies in 2023 from the previous year, according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges.https://truthout.org/articles/76-per...ricted-states/ An early indication of that impending medical “brain drain” came in February, when 76% of respondents in a survey of more than 2,000 current and future physicians said they would not even apply to work or train in states with abortion restrictions. “In other words,” wrote the study’s authors in an accompanying article, “many qualified candidates would no longer even consider working or training in more than half of U.S. states.” Meanwhile demand for OB/GYN's in those remaining civilized states nearby, will increase, so there are likely to be plenty of positions available for ay who want to leave their state. |
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As the saying goes, "Don't cut off your own nose to spite your face." |
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Note that the pretext for fining this doctor was that a privacy violation had taken place when the doctor talked to some member of the press about this abortion. Note that the two things cannot be true simultaneously. Either one is true or the other is true; but both cannot be true (if no one had enough information to definitively validate this case it implies that the information was effectively anonymized enough that no privacy violation could be considered to have occurred). This prosecution was both malicious and not supported by the facts. |
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Of course, this is not peculiar to health services providers. This applies to government facilities (such as where to build new military facilities, because these state level restrictions have the potential to affect military readiness) or just to where any major private sector company may choose to place new facilities (such as Disney reconsidering a plan to move an Imagineering team, involving as many as 2,000 employees, off to a new, billion-dollar Orlando campus —clearly the abortion restrictions, as well as other unrelated policies pushed by the Florida GOP all push the scale in the decision making process against investment in Florida). This is likely to become a generalized brain drain away from "red states" that has the potential of turning them into "ѕḣіtḣοⅼе states". If taken to its logical extreme, the only way they'll be able to remain a little bit attractive to businesses is if the local economies decline enough that they become competitive with developing countries as a source of cheap labor (specially as environmental standards are allowed to decline with recent SCOTUS decisions reducing the regulatory scope of federal agencies like the EPA to make "the cost of doing business" cheaper —if at the expense of quality of life). |
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Slightly tangentially, there's also a general perspective difference at hand. Republican tactics and policies seem to generally seeks to treat (most) humans as disposable tools, with all that that entails. That's good for business that find advantage in exploiting those working in lower skill requirement positions. Democrat tactics and policies generally seek to treat humans as people. That's more attractive for the people who work in jobs requiring higher skilled and more educated workers. |
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Across the board within the US, states with abortion bans (i.e. states with dominant Republican legislatures) already have higher maternal mortality rates than blue states, and logically, as those doctors with the specialist skills to deal with pregnancy and birth related complications leave Red state, or decide not to train in those states, it is only going to get worse - the maternal mortality rates are bound to increase in Red states https://missouriindependent.com/2022...rtality-rates/ Its similar for birth mortality rates. https://www.ajmc.com/view/us-has-hig...-care-spending "Of all countries in 2020, the United States possessed the highest infant mortality rate at 5.4 deaths per 1000 live births, which is markedly higher than the 1.6 deaths per 1000 live births in Norway, which has the the lowest mortality rate. Republican politicians' attempts to force women with unwanted pregnancies to term will also almost certainly result in the loss of babies in pregnancies where the woman wants the child. The irony of this situation would be comical if it wasn't so tragic. |
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It’s the one year anniversary of this BS.
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What advantage do you gain from ignoring context and pretending to be stupid? |
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And now, just to keep the mud clear as can be, Pence is calling for a Federal abortion law, presumably as a way to confirm his fine understanding of what a States' rights decision means. At least we can't accuse the Republican party of lacking diversity. It looks like an unusually broad slate of lunatics, idiots and ******** this year.
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In short, if one takes a look at and wonders about how utterly lacking the rational case for the forced birth movement actually is, one need look no further than the fact that it's little more than a power flex facade for the sake of discriminating against and suppressing a preferred group (much the same can be said about how it was used by doctors against midwives, really). Protecting the unborn was never the real driving force behind it, however useful the facade was at drawing in useful idiots. |
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Some anti-abortion groups do make attempts at assisting with young child care, but those efforts are either token or come with strings attached, like joining a particular religion.
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Remember when the evil, blood drinking, child trafficking HRC introduced the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters program to Arkansas in 1985? "In HIPPY, as it's called, parents receive free books, educational materials and weekly home visits to coach them on how to get their young children ready for school — for example, by reading to them daily." Arkansas still has one of the largest HIPPY programs. "Teachers report that parents who participate in HIPPY become more involved in their children's educations for years to come. HIPPY seems to blunt the impact on school performance of factors like being an English-language learner. Children who go through the program also seem to have better attendance, behavior, peer interactions and academic self-esteem."
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HRC tried to implement a universal health plan for all but it was defeated by conservative opposition. I just love it when the anti-choice crowd claims how pro-life and pro-children they are. :rolleyes: |
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...tive-rcna90784
"Even before the fall of Roe, abortion had been criminalized and disproportionately targeted against people of color. In 2017, Mississippi police charged Latice Fisher after digging into her Google search history and finding that she searched how to “buy Misoprostol Abortion Pill Online.” In August of last year, police used Facebook messages between a mother and her daughter in Nebraska as part of an investigation into an abortion illegal under state law. And this is only the beginning." "Despite promising to delete location data at abortion clinics, Google continues to retain such data at sensitive locations. Recently, Meta investors voted against a proposal to curb abortion-related data from being shared with law enforcement. " Does anyone here still think its a good idea to freely "search online for sources or information about abortion using your own devices"? |
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