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DeSantis is unmitigated GARBAGE as is his wife.

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What we need is an elderly physician who is ready to retire anyway to go all out and just break the "law." Test it in court.

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“If they are in a situation where a mother has a miscarriage and they say you can’t get treated for it — that’s a lie. So you’re either too incompetent to be a doctor because you can’t read, which case you should lose your medical license,”

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Who, exactly, does Puss in Boots think this will persuade?

This is about half a step above when not the brightest boy in the fourth grade tries to bait another kid by saying, "What's the matter? You CHICKEN?"

Anyone with enough brains to pass med school will immediately see through this kind of juvenile bullying and think something like, "I don't intend to lose my license and go to jail because YOU can't stand by your indefensible laws -- but if it makes you feel better to insult me, go right ahead."

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“If they are in a situation where a mother has a miscarriage and they say you can’t get treated for it — that’s a lie. So you’re either too incompetent to be a doctor because you can’t read, which case you should lose your medical license,”

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No, they have the situation assessed with complete accuracy.

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Years ago, I had a real teard of a boss.

He requested that I send a package to somebody or other.

I asked whether he wanted me to send it via Post Office, UPS, FedEx, etc.

His rather curt response was, "Why are you bothering me with such details? You're an intelligent adult professional. Figure it out for yourself."

I was a bit taken aback, but I researched the relative prices and acted accordingly.

The next day, I said, "FYI, your package went out UPS."

He had a shitfit and yelled, "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" [no, I don't know what he had against UPS]

I replied, "You told me to figure it out for myself, so I did."

Needless to say, I didn't last very long at this job -- but I'm getting big Vern* vibes from this "figure it out for yourself/do it my way" bullshit.

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*What, did you think I was gonna bother censoring his name?

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Ah, Ron DeathSentence, of the little white go-go boots. Now with more dead women!

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I see him swaying with the Ikettes....gong-gong-gong-gong-gong-gong-yeah.

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I haven't seen it but I hope someone has already talked about.

Without the state being able to specify what violates the law and what doesn't, how can a court establish mens rea?

I know these laws work by threatening people, I'm just wondering from a technical standpoint.

I guess I just answered my own question. They don't.

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Heh. Oh, they do - the courts (moreover, the religious nutbar hacks called 'judges') will cheerfully establish it by any means they feel like - as long as the doctor isn't a wealthy Republican.

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This is beyond appalling.

This is just religion lying like a rug - which is all that any religion does - to try to recapture a past racist, sexist hegemony.

Playing fast and loose with reproductive healthcare deliberately plays russian roulette with the lives of pregnant human beings, all in an attempt to put the genie of women's equality before the law back in the bottle.

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I bet there are some retroactive abortion providers who would accept DeSantis as a patient.

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Dead women can’t vote

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These fucking people.

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Any woman who gets pregnant in Florida is asking to be executed by the State of Florida. State sponsored terrorism.

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I will repeat: The whole point is to kill women who have problems in pregnancy. Why treat them if you can just let them die?

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The whole point is to terrorize women into complying with unconstitutional rulings that explicitly reject the humanity of women.

If there was a hell, there would be a special place in it for the anti-choice crowd, esp the worthless ones who sanctimoniously weaponize their religion and exult in the pain and chaos they produce.....in a just Hell, they'd need to be punished far more harshly than Dante did in the 7th bolgia, where hypocrites must walk around the bolgia for eternity in lead robes.

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And if they survive a miscarriage, we can prosecute them for an illegal abortion.

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But if we clarify the law, how can we use it to second guess the medical judgment of doctors in order to punish them?

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Ron DeathSentence relies on abortion "experts" like Randall Terry on all these issues.

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It would be a shame if the Southern states only have men in them . . .

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based on their porn stats, they probably wouldn't mind all that much, 'ceptin' when they see each other at the local cognate of the Endup or the like :p. Could ruin political careers... :D

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How can an aspiring “doctor in the state of Florida” learn to read after Ron DeSantis burned all the books?

Ron DeSantis is supporting a candidate for President of the United States who can’t read. Is that as important a job as “doctor in the state of Florida”?

I have more.

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