Most of you probably know that Oct.
Most of you probably know that Oct. 3 the House passed a 20-week abortion ban [https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/10/3/16401826/abortion-ban-pain-capable-unborn-child-protection-act].
This is a story from a married mother that ban would have condemned and possibly killed. Edit: a white, employed, married mother.
Trigger Warning, both for disturbing content and disturbing photos.
The link is hugely disturbing and deeply upsetting, and it should be. I'm saying this, though, because I do not want to trigger anyone. That's why I removed all the photos from showing up in this post. You'll only see them in the article that's linked.
This is a mother's story about finding out the baby she wanted had something terribly wrong in utero. Something that was definitely not going to go well for the fetus, and had a real possibility of doing something terrible to the mom.
We have modern medical science and procedures precisely so that people in this situation have options. Options other than suffering for 9 months and then having baby or mother or both permanently damaged or dead.
Congress can take their supposedly personal religious and political convictions and shove them where the sun don't shine. They are almost all men, and sorry, that matters because they will never have to choose between death, disability, and judgmental, scarlet letter wielding, assholes who claim to be their friends and family and religious leaders. Suffer and die or be ostracized - that's a great set of religious and family values. There's no nobility in forced suffering. Suffering sucks.
I'm not too complimentary about the women who want to force their personal choices on other women, either.
Congress doesn't understand science, and it doesn't want to. Moreover, it lacks all sympathy, empathy, compassion, and basic human decency. I know there are people who claim it is possible to have a dialogue with these ideologues, one that supposedly is productive in getting them to back off their self-righteous crusade. Personally, I'm way over having any dialogue with these people, at all.
https://www.self.com/story/23-week-abortion
https://www.self.com/story/23-week-abortion
This is a story from a married mother that ban would have condemned and possibly killed. Edit: a white, employed, married mother.
Trigger Warning, both for disturbing content and disturbing photos.
The link is hugely disturbing and deeply upsetting, and it should be. I'm saying this, though, because I do not want to trigger anyone. That's why I removed all the photos from showing up in this post. You'll only see them in the article that's linked.
This is a mother's story about finding out the baby she wanted had something terribly wrong in utero. Something that was definitely not going to go well for the fetus, and had a real possibility of doing something terrible to the mom.
We have modern medical science and procedures precisely so that people in this situation have options. Options other than suffering for 9 months and then having baby or mother or both permanently damaged or dead.
Congress can take their supposedly personal religious and political convictions and shove them where the sun don't shine. They are almost all men, and sorry, that matters because they will never have to choose between death, disability, and judgmental, scarlet letter wielding, assholes who claim to be their friends and family and religious leaders. Suffer and die or be ostracized - that's a great set of religious and family values. There's no nobility in forced suffering. Suffering sucks.
I'm not too complimentary about the women who want to force their personal choices on other women, either.
Congress doesn't understand science, and it doesn't want to. Moreover, it lacks all sympathy, empathy, compassion, and basic human decency. I know there are people who claim it is possible to have a dialogue with these ideologues, one that supposedly is productive in getting them to back off their self-righteous crusade. Personally, I'm way over having any dialogue with these people, at all.
https://www.self.com/story/23-week-abortion
https://www.self.com/story/23-week-abortion
I can't read this, but I'm definitely plussing the sentiment.
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