Roe v. Wade is gone.

[Thumpalumpacus]

'merica is steadily moving backwards

I get an image in my head, of a woman in a hospital, giving birth ... handcuffed to the bed.

[h4ym4n]

Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi

A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi gave birth to a boy after she was raped as well as impregnated by a stranger – and then was unable to get an abortion, according to a Time magazine report published on Monday.

The mother of the girl, who uses the pseudonym Ashley in the report, was looking to get an abortion for her daughter but was told the closest abortion provider was in Chicago – a drive of more than nine hours from their home in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Last summer, just a week after the ruling, a local newspaper in Ohio reported that a 10-year-old who was raped had to travel to Indiana for an abortion because of restrictions in her state. A man was found guilty last month of raping and impregnating the girl in that case, and he received a sentence of life imprisonment.

Other stories detail how women nearly died because doctors had to wait until their life was at risk to perform an abortion – or that many women now have to travel long distances to get any kind of reproductive healthcare. An estimated 25 million women ages 15 to 33 live in states that have abortion restrictions.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...ives-birth

Hey ya never know when jebus will return and allowing young virgins to get abortions after they’ve been raped, like Yahweh did to Mary, could prevent omnigod junior from destroying the world.

[LinuxGal]

“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.

We should pass a Woman's Heartbeat Law:  
If a woman still has a heartbeat, you can't tell her what she can do with her goddamned body.

[Anomalocaris]

he put heavy emphasis on the ass part of the badass

[Rev. Rye]

Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi

A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi gave birth to a boy after she was raped as well as impregnated by a stranger – and then was unable to get an abortion, according to a Time magazine report published on Monday.

The mother of the girl, who uses the pseudonym Ashley in the report, was looking to get an abortion for her daughter but was told the closest abortion provider was in Chicago – a drive of more than nine hours from their home in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Last summer, just a week after the ruling, a local newspaper in Ohio reported that a 10-year-old who was raped had to travel to Indiana for an abortion because of restrictions in her state. A man was found guilty last month of raping and impregnating the girl in that case, and he received a sentence of life imprisonment.

Other stories detail how women nearly died because doctors had to wait until their life was at risk to perform an abortion – or that many women now have to travel long distances to get any kind of reproductive healthcare. An estimated 25 million women ages 15 to 33 live in states that have abortion restrictions.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...ives-birth

One minor point: the girl was told that the closest abortion provider was in Chicago. As a native Illinoisan with a slightly more than passing knowledge of geography (there's a huge part of Illinois south of Chicago, no matter how much we may ignore it), I saw that and thought "That can't be right." Checking it up on abortionfinder.com, she could have shaved three hours off that nine hour drive and gone to Carbondale and gone to either Alamo Women's Clinic of Illinois or Choices.

That said, the larger point remains: why the fuck should a 13-year-old have to travel more than 250 miles to get rid of the bun that some waste of jissom put in her oven?





Oh, right.

[Fake Messiah]

What Oklahoma's abortion ban is doing to women

[Fake Messiah]

Her pregnancy was non-viable and her life was at risk but Oklahoma Law Prevented an Abortion

When she awoke on the couch in the early morning hours of Nov. 21, Magon Hoffman’s pajama pants were soaked in blood. What began as light bleeding the night before had turned severe. Hoffman assumed she was miscarrying.

But an ultrasound revealed it was Hoffman’s life that was in danger.

Hoffman’s scan revealed that her unborn daughter was missing a skull and most of her brain. There was zero chance, not even a 0.1% possibility, that the baby would survive, Hoffman remembers her doctor saying. Her daughter would die almost immediately after birth.

Hoffman’s decision was sure and swift. But, months earlier, Oklahoma lawmakers took that choice away from Oklahomans like Hoffman when they passed confusing abortion restrictions that led doctors to refuse the procedure as a precaution.

Hoffman’s doctor told her she could not get the procedure in Oklahoma even though her life was in jeopardy and the fetus had no chance of survival. Hoffman was prepared to leave the state for the procedure she needed and sought guidance from her doctor on how to find the safest option, what to ask potential providers and what to tell them about her condition.

Hoffman traveled nearly 600 miles from Oklahoma City to Albuquerque’s University Of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.

Clinics warned that protestors had become more aggressive since the overturning of Roe v. Wade and Hoffman would have to be transferred to a hospital if the clot ruptured during her procedure or if surgery was the better option. Finding a hospital that offered abortions added time and stress to Hoffman’s search.

Hoffman lost her job and spent nearly $6,000 on the procedure, hotel stay and other travel expenses that, she said, could have been avoided had physicians been allowed to care for her at home.

https://oklahomawatch.org/2023/09/19/her...-abortion/

[zebo-the-fat]

America does not care about it's citizens

[arewethereyet]

America does not care about it's female citizens

FTFY

[The Grand Nudger]

It's a spectrum of contempt. We're all on it.