[Brazelton] Roe v. Wade

Leopards need food, after all, it's important for conservation and stuff that they survive, and whose faces better to eat than theirs instead of mine?
 
“I have gotten some reports where children have been denied methotrexate for their juvenile arthritis until they’ve proven they’re not pregnant,” said Dr. Cuoghi Edens, an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at University of Chicago Medicine and a rheumatology expert who treats adults and children.

In one case, a pharmacist initially refused to dispense methotrexate to an 8-year-old girl in Texas. In a note the child’s doctor shared with Edens, the pharmacist wrote, “Females of possible child bearing potential have to have diagnosis on hard copy with state abortion laws.”

Post-Roe, many autoimmune patients lose access to ‘gold standard’ drug
No one takes methotrexate because they want to. My hair fell out and I spent days vomiting after my self injections weekly. We take it because we want to be able to walk. I know you all understand this, but it’s not negotiable for certain patients.

Denying the medication to an 8 year old sentences her to a lifetime of pain and mobility issues. I am having a hard time fathoming this. The way to treat these diseases is aggressively before the damage is done.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
No one takes methotrexate because they want to. My hair fell out and I spent days vomiting after my self injections weekly. We take it because we want to be able to walk. I know you all understand this, but it’s not negotiable for certain patients.

Denying the medication to an 8 year old sentences her to a lifetime of pain and mobility issues. I am having a hard time fathoming this. The way to treat these diseases is aggressively before the damage is done.
Yes, but don't you see, this is a small price that white republican men are willing to pay for the greater goal of stripping all women of personhood and reducing them to chattel as G*D intended.
 
I'm reminded of all the times some consumer product company has proclaimed something like, "After receiving thousands of angry letters about Feature X, we've decided to change it" only to then start receiving millions of angry letters from all the people who liked Feature X exactly the way it was and question what they were thinking.

--Patrick
 

figmentPez

Staff member
Texas hospitals delaying care over abortion law, letter says

"Some hospitals in Texas have reportedly refused to treat patients with major pregnancy complications for fear of violating the state’s abortion ban, the Texas Medical Association said in a letter this week.
....
"In one case, a central Texas hospital reportedly told a physician not to treat an ectopic pregnancy until it ruptured, the letter said."

This is not about life, this is about controlling women.
 
I'm PREEEETTTTYYY sure since the late 80's we've established HIV isn't just a homosexual disease, but yeah, sure, Texas*. You're batting 1.000 lately when it comes to good decisions. :rolleyes:


*Apologies to Texas residents who aren't complete morons.
**Tangently related, my new phone, which autocorrects EVERYTHING, doesn't recognize the word "homosexual". WTF?
 
An analysis this week by The Columbus Dispatch found 50 reports of rape or sexual abuse toward girls 15 years old or younger in Columbus, Ohio, since May of this year.
Fifty reports.
Since May.
...and this is just counting the ones within Columbus' city limits.
:eek::eek::eek:

For the record, as of today (July 15th), "since May" only encompasses 45 days.
That means the number of REPORTED cases of rape or sexual abuse towards girls 15 years of age or under is more than once per day. And again, this is just in Columbus, OH, a city with a population of just under a million people. The total number (if you add in the UNreported cases) is going to be more.

--Patrick
 
Men rush to get vasectomies after Roe ruling
...before Friday, he received four or five vasectomy requests a day. Since the court’s decision was announced, that number has spiked to 12 to 18 requests per day.
...won't someone think of the children???

You know, I thought the inevitable birth rate decline was going to be because of A.I. sexbots and/or Huxleyesque over-saturation, and not because lawmakers decided to make having children so onerous that nobody would want to do it any more.

--Patrick
 
Wait wait wait. Is the wording actually "seeking" women, not women who had an abortion? Thus killing the woman AND the baby?

Jesus fucking Christ.
Well no, obviously you'll first force them into pens to whelp, and only get rid of the unwanted vessel afterwards.
 
This sounds like it'd be an interesting dystopia novel if it wasn't so freaking scary.

"The year is 2096. The nation is held in the grip of The Birthers, who believe when a child is conceived that it inherits the life of it's mother, leaving the woman nothing but a temporary vessel from which the soul resides till birth. This is the story of Margaret, trying desperately to escape the country before her due date, in which the babies "souless" vessel is discarded."

Almost writes itself.
 
"The year is 2096. The nation is held in the grip of The Birthers, who believe when a child is conceived that it inherits the life of it's mother, leaving the woman nothing but a temporary vessel from which the soul resides till birth. This is the story of Margaret, trying desperately to escape the country before her due date, in which the babies "souless" vessel is discarded."
This idea was lightly touched on in John Sladek's Mechasm (aka The Reproductive System - 1968), where children are allowed to sue their parents for everything that goes wrong with their lives and/or every crime they commit because it was obviously their parents' fault that they turned out that way.

--Patrick
 
This ruling (Thomas' concurrence in particular) caused my roommates to get in touch with an estate lawyer, get their passports renewed, and start groundwork for a move to a blue state or abroad in case GA decides to nullify their marriage for shits and giggles.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I definitely recommend anybody in the bible belt who isn't white AND male AND hetero AND Cisgendered to definitely be thinking about an exit strategy.

I'm mulling one myself, but I'm worried about finding work in NM/CO.
 

figmentPez

Staff member
I definitely recommend anybody in the bible belt who isn't white AND male AND hetero AND Cisgendered to definitely be thinking about an exit strategy.
I'm a hetero, white, cis-male and I'm still wondering if I need an exit strategy because of my mental illness.
 
Democrats including Pressley, Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib arrested at abortion rights rally outside Supreme Court | The Hill
Multiple Democratic lawmakers were arrested at an abortion rights rally near the Capitol on Tuesday, less than one month after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that reversed Roe v. Wade.
Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Jackie Speier (Calif.), Bonnie Watson Coleman (N.J.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Katherine Clark (Mass.), Andy Levin (Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Alma Adams (N.C.), Veronica Escobar (Texas) and Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) were among those apprehended at the demonstration, which included a march from the Capitol to the Supreme Court.
At 1:20 p.m., the U.S. Capitol Police wrote on Twitter that it began arresting activists blocking First Street NE. Authorities said they gave their traditional three warnings before taking protesters into custody.
As of 1:35 p.m. the demonstration was clear, according to Capitol Police, which reported that 17 lawmakers were arrested in total. Authorities arrested 35 people overall for crowding, obstructing or incommoding.
 
It's okay, though, because nothing happens to lawmakers who get arrested. No trial or anything, just a shaking of heads and a promise to do better next time, and they'll be out in no time at all, right?

--Patrick
 

figmentPez

Staff member
Yet again, Republicans show that this is NOT about life, it's about punishing women. West Virginia lawmakers want to end child support payments, so that men won't pressure women to get an abortion.



Yeah, that'll make a woman really want to keep the child, knowing that she won't get any monetary support. This is blatantly evil, and would only serve to harm the children who are born into such a broken system.
 
This is the most stupid argument I have ever heard.

Men are sometimes pressuring women into getting abortions, so the solution is to... make it so the father never has to invest in the child's future? Yes that will do it you piece of shit.

It's pretty fucking funny (NOT) that when a woman thinks about getting an abortion she's treated like a criminal but a man attempts to coerce a woman into an abortion and the goal shifts to clear them of any responsibility for anything involving the process.
 
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