Roe v. Wade is gone.

[Astreja]

Wichita anti-abortion activist Mark Gietzen dies in Nebraska plane crash

Good. Fucking. Riddance.

[no one]

Republicans should take it as a sign, god does not approve of the anti-abortion stance.

[Thumpalumpacus]

He was aborted in the 276th trimester.

[Fake Messiah]

Texas Forced This Woman to Give Birth to a Stillborn Son. She’s Suing

But at just 19 weeks — days after Texas’ Senate Bill 8 went into effect — Hogan woke up at 5 a.m. in excruciating pain. She called 911 and was instructed to unlock her front door and lay on the ground until EMTs arrived. “It was the longest 5 minutes of my life,” Hogan recalled on Monday.

By the time she arrived at the hospital, she had lost too much amniotic fluid for her son to survive — but hospital staff didn’t tell her that. “They didn’t tell me much about my son’s chances of survival. But the one thing they did make clear repeatedly was that I should not leave,” a tearful Hogan said Monday. “I was told that if I tried to discharge myself, or seek care elsewhere, that I could be arrested for trying to kill my child. So of course, I stayed.”

Hogan recounted a harrowing five days inside the hospital, where she says religious counselors repeatedly came to visit her, even though she had declined pastoral care. She recalled being terrified of even going to the bathroom — afraid she would go into premature labor, and be arrested.

“On the fifth day in the hospital, while using the bathroom, my son started to enter the birth canal,” Hogan said. “I was rushed to labor and delivery where I gave birth to him stillborn.”

The next morning she was discharged, and told she could return to work the next day, “as if nothing had happened,” Hogan said.

Hogan is one of eight new plaintiffs who joined a lawsuit against the state of Texas on Monday, seeking clarification about what qualifies as a medical emergency under Texas’ medieval abortion bans. Also on Monday, lawyers for the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the initial suit in March, asked a district court in Travis County for a temporary injunction blocking Texas’ abortion bans in cases of pregnancy complications as the case continues.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/po...234739485/

[zebo-the-fat]

Every day I feel so happy not to live in the hell hole that America is turning into

[Fake Messiah]

A woman is Kentucky was forced to travel to Maryland, spend $7,500, and drop out of nursing school shortly before she was due to graduate.

Why?

Doctors in Kentucky wouldn’t perform an abortion despite the fact that her fetus had developed without a skull.

It’s not the doctor’s fault, though.
Doctors face extreme risk and penalties for performing necessary care. The laws are written intentionally vague to have a chilling effect.

https://www.wdrb.com/news/mt-washington-...ff29b.html

[Fake Messiah]

Several Texas women suing the state over what they say are deeply confusing restrictions shared their harrowing stories in court on Wednesday

At a courthouse in Texas, the same state where the seed of nationwide abortion access was planted more than 50 years ago, a group of women once again stood up to share their gripping and emotional experiences of being denied abortion care.

Like others around the country, pregnant Texans have faced an intimidating legal landscape since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its decision in Roe v. Wade last summer. On Wednesday, several of the women currently suing the state of Texas over its severe abortion restrictions appeared at the Travis County Civil and Family Courthouse to oppose the state’s motion to dismiss their case.

“I had to watch my baby suffer,” plaintiff Samantha Casiano said Wednesday, sobbing. She was not able to abort the pregnancy in Texas because the fetus still had a heartbeat, and instead carried the sick child to term earlier this year.

“The moment my daughter came out of me, she was gasping for air — that’s all she could do,” Casiano said. “I just kept telling my baby, ‘I’m so sorry this had to happen to you.’ There was no mercy there for her.” The girl, named Halo, died after around four hours, never meeting her four siblings.

Plaintiff Ashley Brandt, who was pregnant with twins last year, was able to abort one fetus that was not growing a skull, eventually giving birth to one healthy daughter. But she had to flee to Colorado to do so. The procedure took 10 minutes.

Had she not been able to terminate the unhealthy fetus, Brandt said, her otherwise healthy daughter may have died. She would have had to experience something similar to the trauma Casiano endured.

“I would have had to give birth to an identical version of my daughter without a skull and without a brain, and then I would have had to hold her until she died,” Brandt said through tears. “And then I would have had to sign a death certificate and plan a funeral, and decide whether to bury or cremate her.”

“I don’t feel safe to have children in Texas anymore,” Brandt said. “It was very clear that my health didn’t really matter, and my daughter’s health didn’t matter.”

“We should not be torturing babies and calling it pro-life,” Lauren Miller, a plaintiff who did not testify, said at a press conference Wednesday.

Another plaintiff, Amanda Zurawski, testified in detail about her harrowing near-fatal experience with a pregnancy she was also not permitted to terminate in Texas, despite having lost most of her amniotic fluid at 17 weeks. She was told the fetus would not survive.

Zurawski went into septic shock. Both her parents and her husband’s parents flew to Austin from Indiana out of fear that she would not survive. After three days in intensive care, however, she began to heal.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/women-sha...f6db43?nrk

[zebo-the-fat]

America is heading rapidly back into the dark ages.

[Angrboda]

America is heading rapidly back into the dark ages.

[Fake Messiah]