Below is a video from the BBC about a woman who's unviable fetus threatened her life due to rupturing her membranes. She couldn't get an abortion in Texas despite doctors confirming her life was at risk:
Furthermore, Walgreens refused to distribute abortions pills, even in states where they're legal, due to fear of legal action by Republicans:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/02/walgreens-abortion-pills-00085325
The nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain confirmed Thursday that it will not dispense abortion pills in several states where they remain legal — acting out of an abundance of caution amid a shifting policy landscape, threats from state officials and pressure from anti-abortion activists.
All for what? Because of a religion started by men who stoned women for not bleeding on their wedding night?
11 Mar 23
https://www.insider.com/woman-nearly-died-texas-abortion-law-forbid-nonviable-pregnancy-lawsuit-2023-3
Under the Texas abortion ban, a woman went into sepsis before doctors would treat her and nearly died, lawsuit says
Amanda Zurawaski is one of five women suing Texas over the state's abortion ban.
She said she was denied treatment for an unviable pregnancy and nearly died, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit said she lost one fallopian tube and will now have a hard time getting pregnant.
11 Mar 23
@jj-adams saidThe reason they have lifetime appointments is to be free of political influence, so if they did that they should be impeached. Which of course still wouldn't happen if even if they did so.
Supreme Court picked a helluva time to do that, it put a stink of the Republican party just before the midterm elections and cost them a lot of votes.
12 Mar 23
@vivify saidBloody ridiculous.
Below is a video from the BBC about a woman who's unviable fetus threatened her life due to rupturing her membranes. She couldn't get an abortion in Texas despite doctors confirming her life was at risk:
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Furthermore, Walgreens refused to distribute abortions pills, even in states where they're legal, due to fear of legal action by Repu ...[text shortened]... hat? Because of a religion started by men who stoned women for not bleeding on their wedding night?
100 years of fighting for women’s rights and this is what it’s come down to in America: right-wing incels deciding what women can and cannot do with their bodies.
Ugh. Sickening.
@jj-adams saidYeah I think what happened there is Trump put evangelical Christian’s on the bench rather than actual conservatives. Seems that they only care about what they care about and the mid term prospects for the actual Republican Party was way down the list from forcing women women to carry even inviable and life threatening foetuses to term so that they and their god could just totally ignore them for the next 80 to a 100 years. Unless of course at some point they wanted to die with dignity and without pain, then they would get very concerned again.
Supreme Court picked a helluva time to do that, it put a stink of the Republican party just before the midterm elections and cost them a lot of votes.
12 Mar 23
@moonbus saidNo I’m sure he doesn’t and the evangelicals are well aware of his non Christian hedonist lifestyle, it’s a mutual alliance of convenience with both parties holding their noses. It’s whatever the opposite of a virtuous circle is.
@kevcvs57
I agree, that it was nothing but political manoeuvring on Trump's part, packing the SCOTUS to garner votes in a certain segment of the population. The irony is, Trump himself doesn't believe what they believe. He doesn't CARE about abortion, either way.
12 Mar 23
@kevcvs57 saidEvangelicals who are honest will say that they know Trump mocks what they believe but they still support him because he’s God’s useful tool. It’s a tortuous argument to say the least. If God wanted Roe overturned, He would just do it; He wouldn’t need to go through the ridiculous rigmarole of getting an idiot into the Oval Office in defiance of the public vote which, in 2016, went against him.
No I’m sure he doesn’t and the evangelicals are well aware of his non Christian hedonist lifestyle, it’s a mutual alliance of convenience with both parties holding their noses. It’s whatever the opposite of a virtuous circle is.