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Found the death panels!
By Conover Kennard August 1, 2022
Anti-choice zealots somehow believe that women and their doctors will lie to exploit an exception for the patient's health. So they came up with extremely narrow exceptions for the patient's life, requiring imminent death before terminating the pregnancy is legal. I never want to hear some right-wing ghoul call themselves "pro-life" again. When Roe was overturned, my first reaction was, "women will die," and here we are. Most of us saw that coming.
Via Slate:
How did we get here?
This won't go down well:
The outlet reports that this is already taking place in Missouri, which banned abortion just minutes after the conservative-leaning Supreme Court overturned Roe. The ban has no explicit exception for ectopic pregnancies, which are nonviable and deadly if not terminated.
Women will die. The problem is that Republicans don't care. It was never about the children. It's about control, up until the minute you die.
bucolic_frolic
(43,362 posts)They told us they were coming, so who's surprised?
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Masters of projection.
TheBlackAdder
(28,227 posts).
It worked so well when Grassley was pushing that bullshit, so it will work the same if consistent.
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LiberalFighter
(51,166 posts)Preferably when there is no heart beat.
Baitball Blogger
(46,768 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,510 posts)The GOP enjoys this and is doing it on purpose.
Out of the Hitler/KGB/Stalin playbook.
EnergizedLib
(1,901 posts)Forced birth isnt preventing deaths, it just shifts who dies. And sometimes, the fetus dies, too.
Captain Zero
(6,838 posts)Of lawsuits.
seleff
(154 posts)Really, I can see defendants including panels, hospitals, doctors and should include legislatures, state, governors. Would be interesting to test absolute indemnity of SCOTUS itself...
johnp3907
(3,733 posts)musette_sf
(10,206 posts)Hekate
(90,859 posts)Or promoted
Retrograde
(10,164 posts)(assuming they're eligible, of course). They can and need to vote these vultures and their enablers out of office.
Back when the ACA was passed early in Obama's presidency the Wrong Wing assured us there would be death panels. I didn't think they'd be the ones running them, though.
ShazamIam
(2,576 posts)the baby will be adoptable.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,480 posts)Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
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