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Her Safe Harbor's avatar

Ah yes, the classic GOP move—gut public services, shift responsibility to ‘charity,’ and pretend it's a solution. Crisis pregnancy centers are not healthcare providers; they exist to deceive and manipulate people out of accessing real reproductive care. Replacing tax-funded programs with donations to anti-abortion propaganda mills is not just absurd—it’s dangerous. Missouri deserves actual healthcare, not ideological scams disguised as charity.

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Marcia Buchholz's avatar

Can we send these Christian taliban states to Afghanistan. They’ll be welcomed for a day.

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zero p. burn's avatar

In another timeline I'd be opening a CPC under the auspices of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, with funds used to provide smooth and efficient access to abortion providers and any excess donated to area teachers / shelters / food banks. Then people could donate their taxes to an actual charitable org.

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Cock Blockula's avatar

Maybe men should have a transvasdeferens ultrasound before they ejaculate. Covenant Eyes could track this. $12K per. Money could go to free vasectomy clinics which, if used, would negate the need for transvasdeferens ultrasounds.

(I will beat you to the joke: "There is a vas deferens between...")

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fawkedifiknow's avatar

Too bad they didn't arm that still-in-the-womb "fetus" with an AR-15, for added authenticity

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Crip Dyke's avatar

>> If Sen. Smith was so very concerned about this, he could have looked it up and found that, five years later, over 95 percent of those who had abortions did not regret their decisions at all — and 84 percent say they felt great about it. <<

Oh yeah? Well gender affirming health care has a 99% non-regret rate! Beat that, abortionists!

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Her Safe Harbor's avatar

The data is clear—both abortion and gender-affirming healthcare have overwhelmingly high satisfaction rates, proving that when people are given autonomy over their own bodies, they make the right choices for themselves. The real issue isn’t regret; it’s the politicians trying to control decisions that aren’t theirs to make. If they actually cared about well-being, they’d respect the facts instead of pushing their own agendas.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Gilead was supposed to be FICTION

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Rachael's avatar

I used to give at least some 'pro-lifers' the benefit of the doubt, assuming that their concern for embryos and fetus came from a good, if misguided, place. Now I'm starting to think that every last one of them is just a perverted religious fanatic who has a sick fascination with other people's private parts.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. If instead of women men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. The white Xtian nationalist misogynists are always saying they're hating and controlling women's bodies for God. Well, their god will always be the number one abortionist on earth. Somewhere between 37% and 50% of all first trimester pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, better known as miscarriage. It's more rare in the second and third trimester, but it does happen.

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Sko Hayes's avatar

I'm sure most of us remember the last time they tried the "transvaginal ultrasound", back during the Bush years? Invasive, completely unnecessary for pregnancy detection and only brought in to the mix so that the legislators can feel like they're punishing women for daring to consider an abortion.

The same time that was going on, Republicans in Congress were trying to redefine rape, as in "legitimate rape" and whatever the opposite of that would be? Fake rape? They wanted to make sure that women suffered violence, and didn't just pass out drunk at a party and get raped.

Good times.

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Her Safe Harbor's avatar

Because for Republicans, it was never about ‘life’—it was always about control and punishment. The transvaginal ultrasound mandate was nothing but state-sanctioned abuse, designed to shame and traumatize people seeking abortion. And the whole ‘legitimate rape’ nonsense? Just another way to minimize survivors' suffering and justify denying them reproductive autonomy. These aren’t policies—they’re weapons against women and marginalized people. And they’ll keep trying unless we shut them down at every turn.

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Snowolf100's avatar

Because most abortions take place in the first trimester, an abdominal ultrasound is ineffective. This means the people who are getting abortions in the 12 states who require ultrasounds before medical abortions are most likely having transvaginal ultraounds.

https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=7467&context=jclc

https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/state-indicator/ultrasound-requirements/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

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Gern Blansten's avatar

AKA: How are states fucking up on the abortion issue today?

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boo radley's avatar

Transvaginal ultrasounds, in my experience (I've had two, both while non pregnant) are the woooorst. (To be fair, one of those experiences was definitely conducted by Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS, who barked at me to stop crying as she used a KitchenAid on my ovaries.)

They are incredibly invasive and deeply uncomfortable. To do it while pregnant? Horrible, horrible thought. If I were even slightly on the fence, or even if I weren't, that in itself might make me tap out and continue the pregnancy.

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haycorn's avatar

I've had six total. I have major speculum issues and they were better than those go, but definitely not fun.

I feel like the context is a huge factor. The two I had that confirmed a healthy pregnancy I remember as mildly uncomfortable. The one confirming my miscarriage felt like they were trying to get the wand to a 90 degree angle while inside my body.

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Let me sum up's avatar

So sorry.

What a horror show.

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Bel-Ami's avatar

Golly gee. Can I decide where I want my tax money to go? I want it to go for affordable housing, schools, programs to decrease environmental and climate damage and to prepare for the effects we can not prevent, OK?

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Mommadillo's avatar

I would not only force Darin Smith to have something shoved up his ass, I would happily volunteer to do the shoving.

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Robot Bender's avatar

I live in MO. I'd rather pay the taxes. Fuck them. On second thought, Ladies, don't.

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

Sounds very Russian - have a baby so he can be used as cannon fodder!

These States do not care about the lives of female human beings at all, and stop caring about male human beings at the moment of birth.

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