1886

But, if their daughters fully change sex, how can they have an abortion?

1887

Don’t worry, Ohio parents: I am also online, giving your daughters such high standards for cock that they will never transition or even accept an invitation to prom.

1888

I am certain the assurances of JMJ will bring deep zen to many Ohio parents.

1889

Another horrible story that we absolutely saw coming.

Kylie Beaton was looking forward to having her second child later this year. Now, she’s faced with carrying an unviable pregnancy to its end due to Texas’ highly restrictive abortion ban.

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The couple said the law has left them feeling helpless and frustrated over not being able to make a humane decision for their baby.
“I mean, for them to say, ‘Well, you need to wait until you’re in a health crisis, a health issue to where your life’s in jeopardy, then that’s when we can take it.’ Well, then why do we have doctors?” Kylie Beaton said.
“Why are we taking medications for things like high blood pressure? Why don’t you wait until you have a heart attack? Or until you have, you know, the signs that you’re having a stroke to be on medication? All those things? It’s kind of the same way, if you look at it from our perspective,” she added.
Before this pregnancy, Beaton said she never would have considered getting an abortion. Now, she believes abortions should be allowed in cases like hers and for women with other health conditions to get the care they need.
“I’m personally not for it being a way of birth control. I do believe that there are certain instances where I deem that it is necessary,” she said. “Never in a million years would I expect or believe that we will be going through what we’re going through now.”

1890

Yeah, the obvious and infuriating outcome. This sort of thing is why I struggle so hard to have any kind of civil discourse with “pro life” people.

1891

“I’m personally not for it being a way of birth control"

“The only moral abortion is my abortion.”

1892

Yep, she still wants to dictate others’ decisions.

1893

Yeah, her using that language is a red flag. Giving her the benefit of the doubt, she said “personally”, so maybe she isn’t pro abolishment of roe v wade.

Sorry that she to go through this, nobody should, but if you supported politicians who wanted to repeal roe v wade. This is what you get.

What me? Reaping what I have sown?

I didn’t think that my actions would have consequences for me!

1894

I 100% guarantee she voted for this. This is exactly the kind of thing that evangelical GOP voters would do.

1895

And it really sucks too, and I hope she uses her situation to try to get others who thought like she did the same way.

You can personally be against abortions, but also understand that other women should have the same rights you do to make that choice.

And that abolishing Roe v. Wade did a lot more than was told to you, because the people who run “pro-life” organizations will lie to you.

1896

https://www.idahostatesman.com/living/health-fitness/article273303190.html

Discord not rendering this:

Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies. One reason? ‘Bills that criminalize physicians’

1897

One of the most recent episodes of This American Life covered the OB/GYN’s at Sandpoint.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/792/when-to-leave

That piece ended saying it would be a distinct possibility that they would have to stop providing services, just because the legal risks are too high. That physicians can be held criminally or civilly liable for providing abortions they deem medically necessary might be too much for them to handle. They were fighting the good fight for a while, but it sounds like they have stopped.

The law in Idaho is extremely unforgiving, and allows for anyone related to the pregnancy to start a civil lawsuit against the doctor providing care.

From the transcript:

Amelia Huntsberger

The father of the preborn child, a grandparent of the preborn child, a sibling of the preborn child, or an aunt or uncle of the preborn child. So when I read this, does this mean that the father of a rapist, that the sister of a rapist, that the brother of the rapist can sue the physician? It absolutely does.

Miki Meek

Family members can each file individual separate lawsuits asking for a minimum of $20,000. And they have up to four years to file a lawsuit.

Amelia Huntsberger

All right, back to the language of the law, statutory damages in an amount not less than $20,000. So just take note, instead of having, here’s the ceiling, this is the maximum, we start with a minimum payout.

So, you can imagine why they decided to stop providing OB/GYN services, it is legally difficult to do so, without running the risk of some disgruntled relative starting a financially devastating lawsuit. The burden would be on the hospital and physician to prove the medical necessity of the procedure in front of a jury.

1898

My entire life, I feel like liberals have been trying to keep GOP idiots from harming or killing themselves with their own terrible policies and frankly I find it fucking exhausting. Just like COVID and vaccines/masks, I’d wish them the best of luck in repeatedly slamming their collective dicks in the door were it not for the fact that they grab every unwilling passerby they can find and do the same to them.

1899

That was an excellent episode. The conversation almost immediately after that was also striking:

Miki Meek
So all of that was on Amelia’s mind when another patient came into the clinic. She had an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured. Amelia put a camera into her patient’s abdomen.

Amelia Huntsberger
And I’m like, oh, my gosh. There is way more blood than there was described on the ultrasound that this person had 60 minutes ago. We have got to move quickly.

Miki Meek
The bleeding could kill her. And the way to stop the bleeding was to abort the pregnancy, which was never going to be viable anyway.

Amelia Huntsberger

When you do surgery like that, where it’s an emergency and somebody’s having ongoing, active bleeding, that’s already high stress. And that sort of high stress, I trained for that. I know what to do with that. I can handle that.

Then, you add in this other weird layer of, is her brother going to not understand that this was a not-viable pregnancy and that her life was at risk? And what about her mom? What about her partner? What about her sister?

Do these people understand how serious this condition is, or do they only understand that I removed a pregnancy that had a heartbeat? I don’t know. How am I supposed to know?

1900
1901

Things progressing as expected.

1902

This is a really weird law. I can’t really see how they can even enforce it. They’ve tried to get around the problem of trying to restrict interstate travel by criminalizing only the in-state part of the trip. I’m not at all sure they’ve succeeded, but even assuming they have, the whole thing rests on proving people’s intent and state of mind.

1903

That’s easy. You are pregnant, and in a car? GUILTY!

1904

This is clearly just the start. Once this is in effect they’ll require girls to register their periods with their parents, who will then have to report that to the state. Then come the “child trafficking” checkpoints at the state borders.

1905

I wonder, is there’s some sort of blueprint the GOP could follow to hurry things along?

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