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Also the poor. And the indigent. And renters, also too. You're only a person if you're a wealthy, white, landowning man (a straight one, of course.)

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Idaho has the sovereign authority to defy the federal judiciary should they once again propose the fiction that abortion is a federal constitutional right.

Someone should remind them how General Sherman explained the mistake in that theory to Georgia and South Carolina. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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I'm trying to figure out if this is a "Stand Your Ground" situation.

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Well Doc after spending my life in Idaho where Andrus was governor and Church was senator to now this I'm leaving. Blue states are going to get bluer red states are going to suck. Leaving Friday to Oregon

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So what if a pregnant person has a life-threatening pregnancy complication and the only way to save them is to abort... and you don't abort because that is "killing" a fetus... but then the fetus can't survive because the person sustaining it is dead now? Aren't you in effect aborting a fetus, with the added bonus of killing another person in the meantime, and now you're both an abortionist and a murderer? How is that better?

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Fuck him. His "no exceptions" attitude comes from his assumption that he'll never get pregnant. So, no big deal, right?

But just wait. Once someone close to him gets pregnant and that pregnancy threatens his position, well then . . . it will be a quick but quiet jaunt to a state that allows abortion. All under the guise of a wholesome family tourist vacation, or such like.

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So awful.

If her fetus had had any evidence of cardiac activity she could have been confined to bed for days or weeks waiting for it to stop regardless of the complications she experienced.

The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology just posted a paper from doctors in Dallas County, TX recounting their experiences with this situation in women who presented with fetal cardiac activity since the Texas abortion ban. Complications for the 28 women involved including ICU admission, transfusions, hysterectomy and sepsis were 57% compared to 33% in places where these laws weren't in place. Just to highlight how hopeless and cruel this practice is: 96% of the feutses/infants died. (One woman who came in at 20 weeks hung on until 24 weeks and delivered a baby that's still in the NICU--hopefully the mom's wishes aligned with that choice)

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Unfortunately, the Trolley Problem isn't entirely theoretical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

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Because JESUS.

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in 5... 4... 3...

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Because Jeebus

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If you pressed him, he'd confess that nonwhites are not human beings

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I hear ya and I feel ya. Me three!

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Not surprising, coming out of a state with a cult that refuses to allow medical treatment for children, except for faith 'healing.' See documentary, "No Greater Law."

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Gawd swill.

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