The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade reshaped this country in ways we're just starting to understand. What does it really mean to live in a country where abortion is no longer a constitutional right? These are stories from the aftermath.
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*Christina learned her fetus was likely to die. She left Texas to receive care.These stories are simply chilling. When The Handmaid's Tale started its TV run in 2017 I never imagined 5 years later a radical Supreme Court would do something during a ruling that the plaintiffs themselves didn't ask for: overturn Roe v. Wade.
*Dr. Betsy Wickstrom is an OB-GYN who works in Missouri.
We're feeling under the microscope about what we can and can't say. But if my water bottle just happens to be sitting on my desk while we are talking, and the patient happens to write the number on the label, then the patient still has the information they needed.
*Dr. Andrea Palmer is an OB-GYN in Texas who has been sterilizing more women since Dobbs.
I just finished doing a laparoscopic salpingectomy on a young woman, 23 years old, who has not had children and desires not to have children. This is one in a string of many sterilizations I've done on young women without children since S.B. 8 passed in Texas and Dobbs passed at the level of the Supreme Court. I've had so many patients who don't think that they want children, but ultimately are so scared about the lack of reproductive access that they would rather remove the option than have to deal with an unintended pregnancy.
*Dr. Kristl Tomlin was one of a few pediatric gynecologists in South Carolina willing to provide abortions.
I've had police threaten to come to my home, and I've had police call my phone and threaten me. I've had my daughter look up in my eyes and say, "Mommy, are they going to arrest you?"
*Elevated Access is a collective of volunteer pilots who fly women to their abortion appointments.
What's happened with Dobbs now is that people just have to travel that much farther. "We have a pregnant 9-year-old that needs help." Hearing those words, it's like, this is hell.
*Destini Spaeth is a volunteer for the Prairie Abortion Fund in North Dakota, where she helps women figure out everything from insurance to gas money.
I answer emails in the middle of the night. I give callers my cellphone number so that they can text me if they have any questions. I shouldn't need to do this. I shouldn't need to be fielding 17 emails on a lunch break. I dream of a time when this isn't required.
We watched every single Federalist Society SCOTUS nominee sitting before the Senate Judiciary committee all assent that they were faithful adherents to precedence and the belief in stare decisis as a bedrock principle of jurisprudence. And each of them showed how faithless those promises were, even when given to a GOP Senator like Susan Collins.
The stories recounted above never should have to be told in 2024 coming from the world's alleged leader in liberty and justice for all. Yet they continue as so few seem to even be concerned with how many lives are turned upside down as thousands of women face a frightening new reality that many of their mothers and grandmothers never had to.
"Don't ask how often viable babies are aborted, Tim Walz put rules in place to not track them."
#5 | Posted by visitor_
What kind of f*cked-up world does visitor_ live in?
He actually believes that a woman would carry a wanted child for 6, 7, 8, even 9 months, and then callously decides to abort said wanted child, because just exactly why?
The reason is that visitor_ and his ilk think that women are just too stupid to leave health care, including the decision to abort a child, in the hands of the people who actually know what's going on: the woman and her health care provider.
So, visitor_ and his ilk believe that they know what's best for women they will never meet and never know, and therefore want the government in the same room as the woman and her health care provider because they can't be there themselves.
That's the kind of f*cked-up world visitor_ and his ilk live in.
Oh, and Happy Anniversary!
"I think abortion needs to be legal during the first trimester. -
#45 | Posted by JeffJ at 2024-10-20 01:14 PM | Reply | Flag: JeffJ's permission slip
"And it disgusts me the degree to which some on the left absolutely celebrate it."
#45 | Posted by JeffJ at 2024-10-20 01:14 PM
The "left" only celebrates the fact that we trust women with their own, personal health care.
You want to know what's really disgusting?
The right's celebration of having the government in the exam room with the woman and her health care provider.
That's disgusting.
Letting men make decisions about women's healthcare is like letting your dog make decisions about maintaining your vehicle because he likes to ride in it sometimes.
#60 | Posted by TonyRoma at 2024-10-20 06:24 PM | Reply | Flag: Indisputably ...
#62 | Posted by JeffJ at 2024-10-20 07:39 PM | Reply | Flag: Please give us a reason why anyone should read - (much less respect) - whatever you say when you're unwilling to respond to this?
#67 | Posted by JeffJ at 2024-10-20 07:54 PM | Reply | Flag: Please give us a reason why anyone should read - (much less respect) - whatever you say when you're unwilling to respond to this?
1. I don't give a flying ---- about your hypocrisy.
2. You fully support politicians who deny abortions during the first trimester
3. You are ignorant as to what a heart beat law is. en.wikipedia.org
4. The fact that you don't know what a heart beat law is (the law being a prominent part of the abortion discuss btw) proves you are an ignorant ---- who should keep his opinions to himself on a topic like abortion.
#107 | Posted by visitor_
We covered this topic yesterday, you smooth-brained, mouth-breathing knuckle-dragger.
You're welcome.
Oh, and Happy Anniversary ! ! !
#110 | Posted by visitor_
We covered this topic yesterday, you smooth-brained, mouth-breathing knuckle-dragger.
You're welcome.
Oh, and Happy Anniversary ! ! !
"Kamala wants to pass a law at the national level."
#110 | Posted by visitor_
It is called Roe v. Wade.
Besides, we covered this topic yesterday, you smooth-brained, mouth-breathing knuckle-dragger.
You're welcome.
Oh, and Happy Anniversary ! ! !
Project 2025's Distortion of a Reconstruction-Era Law Could Enact a National Abortion BanRemember, Adolph Hitler didn't clearly state "take all the Jews you find, gas them, then incinerate them."
Nope. You won't find those clear, exact words in any of Hitler's writings or speeches.
But just how did that turn out, eberly?
#114 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-10-21 10:58 AM | Reply | Flag: 100% oops
Oh, and Happy Anniversary ! ! !
#117 | Posted by eberly
Abortion: Project 2025 describes the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, as "just the beginning."
"Conservatives in the states and in Washington, including in the next conservative Administration, should push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America," the book states. "In particular, the next conservative President should work with Congress to enact the most robust protections for the unborn that Congress will support while deploying existing federal powers to protect innocent life and vigorously complying with statutory bans on the federal funding of abortion."
The book calls on the Department of Health and Human Services to protect "the health and well-being of all Americans," beginning at conception, and to end mandatory health insurance coverage of Ella, an emergency contraceptive that Project 2025 describes as a "potential abortifacient." It also advocates using an 1873 anti-vice law to block abortion pills from being sent via the mail. (More about that later.)
The book also calls for ending federal funding for "Planned Parenthood and all other abortion providers and redirect[ing] funding to health centers that provide real health care to women." As we have written before, Planned Parenthood provides more than abortion services. In its 2022-2023 annual report, Planned Parenthood said it provided 4.6 million tests and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, 2.25 million contraception services, 464,021 cancer screenings and prevention services (mostly breast exams and Pap tests), and 1.1 million pregnancy tests and prenatal services.
#117 | Posted by eberly
Abortion: Project 2025 describes the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, as "just the beginning." ...
... The book also calls for ending federal funding for "Planned Parenthood and all other abortion providers and redirect[ing] funding to health centers that provide real health care to women." As we have written before, Planned Parenthood provides more than abortion services. In its 2022-2023 annual report, Planned Parenthood said it provided 4.6 million tests and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, 2.25 million contraception services, 464,021 cancer screenings and prevention services (mostly breast exams and Pap tests), and 1.1 million pregnancy tests and prenatal services.Yep.
Project 2025 = --- WOMEN
Authors of Project 2025 = VOTE FOR TRUMP
Thanks for posting that, eberly
"Truth said "project 2025 clearly states..." -
#120 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-21 11:09 AM | Reply | Flag: Concepts too difficult for Eb
"Can we at least try to avoid making a Hitler reference on every single subject?" -
#120 | Posted by eberly (new) at 2024-10-21 11:09 AM | Reply | Flag: Eb smiles for the camera
Hans, you've been trolling on this site for almost 20 years."
#123 | Posted by visitor_
Well, so have you, brother.
"The links are really creepy." -
#126 | Posted by eberly (new)
Thanks for the clicks.
As the saying goes, if the shoe fits...
"I don't have any doubts the authors of project 2025 want a ban on abortion even though I don't know that.....because they aren't willing to say that."
- #126 | Posted by eberly (new) | Flag: Sophist: a person who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments
Too easy.
"so is that like the 3rd time you are calling me a Nazi camp worker exterminating jews?" -
#135 | Posted by eberly (new)
Nope.
I'm calling you a Sonderkommando, who were Jews still healthy enough to clean out the gas chambers and put the bodies in a crematorium for an extra slice of bread, for an extra day of life
You're a sophist, a person who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments.
"I don't have any doubts the authors of project 2025 want a ban on abortion even though I don't know that.....because they aren't willing to say that." - Just like Hitler wasn't willing to say what he really wanted to do to the Jews.And to what end are you being a sophist?
Why don't you just join your brothers-in-arms, admit you completely and fully support the Kumquat Pol Pot, and stop being clever and cute by half.
Can you spot the difference?
"I don't have any doubts the authors of project 2025 want a ban on abortion ,even though I don't know that.....because they aren't willing to say that." - #126 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-21And ...
"I don't have any doubts the author of Mein Kampf wanted to kill all European Jews ,even though I don't know that.....because he isn't willing to say that." - #126 | Posted by eberly, sr. at 1938-10-10Hint: the dates posted give you an important clue.
BONUS: At which one of Germany's mass deportation camps (1933-1945) was this quote discovered written on a barracks wall:
"So, God wants me to ask for forgiveness? Maybe He's the one who needs to ask for forgiveness.". Good luck!
Twoothy would literally suck any of those guys off to be friends.
If Hans ever went after Twoothy....he'd leave. He couldn't handle it.
Posted by eberly (brand new!) | Flag: Unintended consequences
Thank you for constantly replying to me, eberly!
Our host, no doubt, appreciates the traffic.
(Did you really spend the day thinking about just the perfect retort to me? Really? That's delicious, eberly)
"by killing every thread?" -
#152 | Posted by eberly
You cannot give as much as you, supposedly, take?
That's a really impotent reply, eberly.
Of all the posters here, I expected more from you.
Much more.
#155 | Posted by Posted by eberly at 2024-10-21 09:49 PM | Reply | Flag: Who would have expected that response?
#158 | Posted by JeffJ at 2024-10-20 07:36 PM | Reply | Flag: Please give us a reason why anyone should read - (much less respect) - whatever you say when you're unwilling to respond to this?
"That would imply I'm uncomfortable being a fence sitter." -
#171 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-21 10:03 PM | Reply | Flag: "The only thing down the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead armadillos." - Jim Hightower
"You're going way too far with that. Also, Eberly hates trump and said he will be voting for Kamala."
#142 | Posted by Alexandrite
Reminds me:
There two - and only two - things I cannot stand about eberly:Perhaps I'm getting less tolerant, in an inverted way, as my age increases.
His face
The things he posted here (about 2025 + abortion) were anything but "hating" Trump.
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