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My daughter recently informed me that she is pregnant. Her and her husband had been planning to have a second child and a do-it-yourself pregnancy test had just came back positive; so they are, of course, happy about that. I asked her if she knows how far along she is, and she said she guessed she was perhaps 5 and half weeks (but hadn't gotten a doctor's word on it yet). What this confirms to me is the correctness of the often repeated claim by reproductive rights people that 6 weeks is before many women even know they are pregnant. My daughter was trying to get pregnant, was paying attention to the matter, and she still didn't know until just days before that arbitrary 6 weeks would have been up. Just imagine women who aren't planning, trying or consenting to reproduction.

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Post-birth abortion?

DeSatan, it’s not too late for yours is it? How much post-birth are we talking here? Months? Years? Decades? Come on, DeSatan, let’s have a time frame for this procedure.

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Could you imagine having some weird compulsion to bob your head like that whenever you talk? I would be broken into the worst kind of insane asshole in about two months. Ron needs to get help annd stop shaking that brain.

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Why do they pay these cable news talking heads whatever the fuck it is they pay them? (Fun coincidence. Swamp by Talking Heads came up on shuffle while I was writing that.) Jake Fucking Tapper couldn't respond to "...some liberal states are now allowing post-birth abortions..." with "Which states?"

I mean, is that even Journalism 101?

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First point: Yeah, DeSantis didn't serve in any "politicized" military! Just the one that actively went to war against countries so Republican donors could make beaucoup bucks on oil and "rebuilding." And then actually tortured people--even in at least one alleged case WHILE RONNIE WATCHED AND LAUGHED.

Second point: So according to Republicans, I am...an abortion survivor? I guess? I wasn't expected to survive when I was born, and yet somehow despite only receiving palliative care, I am still alive thirty-something years later. So I guess the next step is to retroactively charge my now-deceased parents for attempted abortion?

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post birth abortion - WTAF - now i wanna punch something

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A DeSantis pivot would be him becoming worse, not better.

He can only go one direction, downhill.

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A DeSantis pivot would be him actually pulling his head out of his ass.

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‘a vision for the economy’

You liberals are so silly. Just imagine all the skills people will pick up once Governor Puddin' Fingers re-establishes slavery!

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This "post birth abortion" claim has its origin in Gov. Ralph Northam - who is actually a pediatric neurologist and therefore very well acquainted with NICU procedures - trying to answer an accusing question about what happens when a baby is born alive after an attempted abortion.

He tried to make clear that this would be vanishingly rare but that if it occurred that the child would be made comfortable and the parents would be asked if they wanted to just let nature take its course while the child was kept comfortable or whether they wanted supportive intervention.

That is what SER linked to as far as palliative efforts that would apply in any situation in which a newborn is not expected to live.

The leveraging this into a myth of deliberate infanticide must be slapped down whenever it is encountered.

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I still get pissed off every time I think about the 2016 debate where Hillary let Trump get by with that abortion at nine months bullshit without even an "Oh Donald, you know that is not true." That's what happens by being over prepared in getting your memorized statements in and not listening to what the other person is saying. She had a practiced response to a generic question on abortion and ignored what Trump was saying. To the evangelicals around here that amounted to Hillary admitting it was true.

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"ABORTION" AT THE MOMENT OF BIRTH IS CALLED BIRTH!

Sorry for shouting.

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I'm not shouting! Alright, I am! I'm shouting, I'm shouting, I'm shout--

*thud*

(Couldn't help myself. And I love Tim Curry.)

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if he was a blonde woman, people would describe him as vapid

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Let's take a look at what DeSantis thinks the Pentagon shouldn't be doing about climate change.

https://www.defense.gov/spotlights/tackling-the-climate-crisis/

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"We hate to kick a guy when he’s down"

But kicking people when they’re down is the rightwingers’ favorite thing.

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It's the only way they know how to kick.

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*dumpster on fire gif*

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You're right, nobody should kick DeSantis when he's down. Now pissing on him, that's another question.

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FL is known for watersports...

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