It doesn’t help that Ken Paxton, the most corrupt AG in history, can’t wait to prosecute a doctor under this insane law to them an example. Not many would want to risk their license and their freedom to be the first test case.
All doctors have a responsibility first and foremost to protect people’s health regardless of any laws or statutes that may be in effect. Hospitals must formulate a policy that all measures to protect the health of their patients will be taken when needed and any legal complaints will be ignored. If someone in Texas wants to file a lawsuit, there should be a fund set up to cynically write the plaintiffs a check and tell them to get lost. This is not a game. This is reality.
Stop writing posts like this, Robyn! You're scaring all the doctors in Texas, so it'll be your fault if something goes wrong, according to wassname, that incredibly idiotic female legislator somewhere who personally went through one of these situations and blames abortion supporters for it.
These people's heads are so far up their asses that extraction is at this point both impossible and pointless.
What it's going to do is scare doctors from practicing in Texas. And result in a shortage of ob/gyn medical students in Texas universities. So even the wealthy MAGAgelical women may be catching flights out to other states for routine pregnancy care. Or abortions. An activist local DA might pursue charges on any D&C, and with the right jury send a doctor to prison. At best it will take a lot of money to defend in a specialty with already high liability insurance premiums and lead all the evangelical preachers in the area to call you a baby killer. Meaning you might have to move anyway to protect your family. And if the woman dies or suffers serious complications, you might be sued for medical negligence. When best practices and respected medical associations say a D&C is the expected early treatment in that situation, it's hard to fight in court. Talk about a lose/lose situation, this is it.
"were one a sexually active person capable of getting knocked up"
In the not-to-distant (dystopian) future the fault for getting pregnant will lie solely on the "birthing person." They should have found a way to get around the upcoming RINO ban on birth control. And don't count on condoms because men, ***real men***, don't want anything between their dick and who is the fuckee of the day, nor deny themselves the glorious feeling of cream-pies.
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"a hesitancy that can have deadly consequences"
The MAGAdroids consider this a feature and not a bug. To paraphrase Monty Python: Their chief weapon is fear. Fear and surprise. Their two chief weapons are fear and surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Fulvous Fuckwad. Their three chief weapons are....
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"even if you get a transfusion you can end up on full bed rest for several days to several weeks, because a transfusion isn’t going to replace all of the blood you lost and your body will need time to make more (source: I know someone who lost a lot of blood one time)."
True, that. I also "know someone who lost a lot of blood one time," me. About fifteen years ago I almost bled out internally. After eight units of blood and five of Iron, I still spent the next ten days in an ICU.
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“Yes, a doctor was going to treat their patient according to the Hippocratic oath, according to what they think is best for their patient"
A good doctor will treat their patients based on what they think is best, come hell, high water, or draconian RINO legislation. OTOH, there are a shitload of doctors who are more concerned about maintaining a large enough income to live comfortably, and have forgotten why they entered the medical profession in the first place.
A doctor isn’t going to treat many more patients if they’re spending the next 99 years in prison. It’s hard to fault them for hesitating or just bailing on practicing in Texas altogether when those are the stakes.
You'll get no argument from me on this. Like I said, the RINOs utilize fear as a weapon to teach the nonbelievers the right moral... no... political ideology. (And to try to beat an unnatural homogeneity into the country. Like Cletus always said during the later '60s and early to mid 70s: "Murica, love it or leave it.)
Not only are women dying -- infant morality is also increasing in states with abortion bans. If they were pro-life, their laws wouldn't result in more people dying.
One way for TX Republicans to get rid of those icky females. But, they still haven't come up with a way of cloning themselves, so this seems a bit short-sighted.
It doesn't personally effect republican men so they don't fucking care if the crazy religious people ban it. They will never need an abortion. They will never be bleeding out from a simple issue with their uterus. THEY DON'T CARE. 😒 Let alone the fact that they will always manage to afford to get their wife/child/mistress an abortion "some how".
As many of us who have worked in clinics know, they'll often be found knocking on the back door of that clinic with their pregnant daughter or girlfriend (rarely a wife) because THEIR situation is different.
And because women's clinics tend to be staffed with compassionate folks who's first priority is the pregnant person, they won't be turned away, if only to ascertain that the pregnant client really wants an abortion, and isn't being forced into it.
Life is complicated, and moreso for those put in these situations.
I had to have blood transfusions due to uterine fibroids my ob/gyn misdiagnosed / dismissed until I staggered into her office with a hemoglobin of 3.2. (Normal is 14, I don’t know anything else about hemoglobin.) Transfusions are no joke, even when they go as they are supposed to. They have to use an enormous needle, and something about the process made me feel like things were crawling on me, or like I couldn’t be still. Hard to describe and maybe unrelated.
Anyway, it’s inexcusable that a person experiencing a miscarriage should be allowed to get sick enough she needs that drastic an intervention. Not to mention that there isn’t an unlimited supply of blood.
Not for nothing, but emergency transfusions probably cost quite a bit more than a D&C too. Now that we are defunding health care nationwide - wait, sorry, maybe not in Alaska - seems like we’d care about that.
Anybody know what's going on with election re-count in Rockland County, NY? I read or heard that Kamala got ZERO voes in several precincts which is statistically impossible. It supposedly implies vote manipulation on a grand scale. Somehow I lost the link to the articles.
It's entirely possible. There are several precincts that are 100% Hasidic or other ultra-orthodox, and they vote the way their grand rabbis tell them to. They might vote for a white woman as senator if she will do them favors, but they're certainly not going to vote for a Black woman for president. We have the same situation here in Orange County next door.
The person who brought the suit, Dorey Houle, is a LaRouchie.
Even Kiryas Joel has 6% non Jewish. Zero votes is difficult for me to handle. I assume in every population that's at least one jerk like me who refuses to follow orders.
It doesn’t help that Ken Paxton, the most corrupt AG in history, can’t wait to prosecute a doctor under this insane law to them an example. Not many would want to risk their license and their freedom to be the first test case.
It costs money to keep people alive. You can't give billionaires tax breaks if you have to pay to keep the little people from dying. So dying it is.
Dying is expensive, too.
Ta, Robyn. For the rape-uglicans in TX (and one other states), dead women are a price they're more than willing to pay.
All doctors have a responsibility first and foremost to protect people’s health regardless of any laws or statutes that may be in effect. Hospitals must formulate a policy that all measures to protect the health of their patients will be taken when needed and any legal complaints will be ignored. If someone in Texas wants to file a lawsuit, there should be a fund set up to cynically write the plaintiffs a check and tell them to get lost. This is not a game. This is reality.
Stop writing posts like this, Robyn! You're scaring all the doctors in Texas, so it'll be your fault if something goes wrong, according to wassname, that incredibly idiotic female legislator somewhere who personally went through one of these situations and blames abortion supporters for it.
These people's heads are so far up their asses that extraction is at this point both impossible and pointless.
What it's going to do is scare doctors from practicing in Texas. And result in a shortage of ob/gyn medical students in Texas universities. So even the wealthy MAGAgelical women may be catching flights out to other states for routine pregnancy care. Or abortions. An activist local DA might pursue charges on any D&C, and with the right jury send a doctor to prison. At best it will take a lot of money to defend in a specialty with already high liability insurance premiums and lead all the evangelical preachers in the area to call you a baby killer. Meaning you might have to move anyway to protect your family. And if the woman dies or suffers serious complications, you might be sued for medical negligence. When best practices and respected medical associations say a D&C is the expected early treatment in that situation, it's hard to fight in court. Talk about a lose/lose situation, this is it.
It's already impacted care in Idaho and other states. None the size of Texas, though.
Where the fuck is the AMA?
"were one a sexually active person capable of getting knocked up"
In the not-to-distant (dystopian) future the fault for getting pregnant will lie solely on the "birthing person." They should have found a way to get around the upcoming RINO ban on birth control. And don't count on condoms because men, ***real men***, don't want anything between their dick and who is the fuckee of the day, nor deny themselves the glorious feeling of cream-pies.
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"a hesitancy that can have deadly consequences"
The MAGAdroids consider this a feature and not a bug. To paraphrase Monty Python: Their chief weapon is fear. Fear and surprise. Their two chief weapons are fear and surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Fulvous Fuckwad. Their three chief weapons are....
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"even if you get a transfusion you can end up on full bed rest for several days to several weeks, because a transfusion isn’t going to replace all of the blood you lost and your body will need time to make more (source: I know someone who lost a lot of blood one time)."
True, that. I also "know someone who lost a lot of blood one time," me. About fifteen years ago I almost bled out internally. After eight units of blood and five of Iron, I still spent the next ten days in an ICU.
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“Yes, a doctor was going to treat their patient according to the Hippocratic oath, according to what they think is best for their patient"
A good doctor will treat their patients based on what they think is best, come hell, high water, or draconian RINO legislation. OTOH, there are a shitload of doctors who are more concerned about maintaining a large enough income to live comfortably, and have forgotten why they entered the medical profession in the first place.
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A doctor isn’t going to treat many more patients if they’re spending the next 99 years in prison. It’s hard to fault them for hesitating or just bailing on practicing in Texas altogether when those are the stakes.
You'll get no argument from me on this. Like I said, the RINOs utilize fear as a weapon to teach the nonbelievers the right moral... no... political ideology. (And to try to beat an unnatural homogeneity into the country. Like Cletus always said during the later '60s and early to mid 70s: "Murica, love it or leave it.)
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Horrifying.
Not only are women dying -- infant morality is also increasing in states with abortion bans. If they were pro-life, their laws wouldn't result in more people dying.
One way for TX Republicans to get rid of those icky females. But, they still haven't come up with a way of cloning themselves, so this seems a bit short-sighted.
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
-- Jello Biafra
Texas needs to have a miscarriage and expel Abbot, Paxton, and the rest into the Gulf of Mexico.
I don't even want to change planes in Texas, tbh.
It doesn't personally effect republican men so they don't fucking care if the crazy religious people ban it. They will never need an abortion. They will never be bleeding out from a simple issue with their uterus. THEY DON'T CARE. 😒 Let alone the fact that they will always manage to afford to get their wife/child/mistress an abortion "some how".
As many of us who have worked in clinics know, they'll often be found knocking on the back door of that clinic with their pregnant daughter or girlfriend (rarely a wife) because THEIR situation is different.
And because women's clinics tend to be staffed with compassionate folks who's first priority is the pregnant person, they won't be turned away, if only to ascertain that the pregnant client really wants an abortion, and isn't being forced into it.
Life is complicated, and moreso for those put in these situations.
all of this
I had to have blood transfusions due to uterine fibroids my ob/gyn misdiagnosed / dismissed until I staggered into her office with a hemoglobin of 3.2. (Normal is 14, I don’t know anything else about hemoglobin.) Transfusions are no joke, even when they go as they are supposed to. They have to use an enormous needle, and something about the process made me feel like things were crawling on me, or like I couldn’t be still. Hard to describe and maybe unrelated.
Anyway, it’s inexcusable that a person experiencing a miscarriage should be allowed to get sick enough she needs that drastic an intervention. Not to mention that there isn’t an unlimited supply of blood.
Not for nothing, but emergency transfusions probably cost quite a bit more than a D&C too. Now that we are defunding health care nationwide - wait, sorry, maybe not in Alaska - seems like we’d care about that.
Hemoglobin is what transports and exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide. It's a complex protein that involves iron to do said transport and exchange.
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Anybody know what's going on with election re-count in Rockland County, NY? I read or heard that Kamala got ZERO voes in several precincts which is statistically impossible. It supposedly implies vote manipulation on a grand scale. Somehow I lost the link to the articles.
It's entirely possible. There are several precincts that are 100% Hasidic or other ultra-orthodox, and they vote the way their grand rabbis tell them to. They might vote for a white woman as senator if she will do them favors, but they're certainly not going to vote for a Black woman for president. We have the same situation here in Orange County next door.
The person who brought the suit, Dorey Houle, is a LaRouchie.
Even Kiryas Joel has 6% non Jewish. Zero votes is difficult for me to handle. I assume in every population that's at least one jerk like me who refuses to follow orders.
There's a difference between municipalities and voting precincts.
Yahoo and Newsweek have articles, Snores isn't skuttling it
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/12/new-york-lawsuit-2024-election/
What it means is that in these unreconstructed state-based regimes of terror, breeding vessels need to get with the program and make a miracle happen.
And of course always remember the Republican approach to health care:
1. Don't get sick.
2. If you do get sick, die quickly.
Oh yeah, "Bwaaaaahhhh! aMeRIcAn BiRTHraTeS aRe deCReaSiNg!"