Point of fact, the number one cause of death for pregnant women is homicide. I can’t imagine why this woman didn’t want a permanent connection to this guy.
In the past 24 hours, North Carolina and Nebraska spark outrage and thrown tampons and Godwin’s law for bringing its abortion laws in line with most European countries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal.../?itid=mc_magnet-abortion_inline_collection_2 Florida doctors refused abortion of deformed fetus due to fear of criminal penalties of a child who had no kidneys and non functioning lungs. Baby lived for 90 minutes after birth and died.
What a sick, perverted, horrible way that DeSantis, the forced birthers, and the Republican legislature forced that child to die.
Broader Support for Abortion Rights Continues Post-Dobbs support for abortion rights continues to increase post Dobbs. A record-high 69% say abortion should generally be legal in the first three months of pregnancy. The prior high of 67% was recorded last May after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization draft was leaked, showing that the court planned to nullify constitutional protection for abortion. Most Americans oppose abortion later in pregnancy, but the 37% saying it should be legal in the second three months of pregnancy and 22% in the last three months of pregnancy are the highest Gallup has found in trends since 1996. Gallup’s oldest trend on the legality of abortion finds 34% of Americans believe abortion should be legal under any circumstances, nearly matching last year’s record-high 35% and above the 27% average since 1975. Another 51% currently say abortion should be legal under certain circumstances, while 13% (similar to the all-time low of 12%) want it illegal in all circumstances. Fifty-two percent of Americans say abortion is morally acceptable, matching last year’s all-time high. This is 10 percentage points above the historical average since 2001.
A heartwarming story that could topple abortion bans. The sleeper legal strategy that could topple abortion bans In Indiana, a group of Jewish, Muslim and other religious plaintiffs sued over the state’s near-total abortion ban. Their argument: that it violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act signed into law in 2015 by then-Gov. Mike Pence. A lower court judge sided with them in December and blocked the state’s ban from taking effect — the most significant win the religious challengers have notched so far. Then, earlier this month, the Indiana judge granted the challengers class action status, meaning a win for them could apply to anyone in the state whose religion supports abortion access in cases prohibited by state law.
interesting. down the street from where my son lives in Boulder, there's a synagogue with a sign that reads, Judaism supports a woman's right to reproductive freedom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/21/obgyn-abortion-poll/ Sweeping restrictions and even outright abortion bans adopted by states in the year since the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling have had an overwhelmingly negative effect on maternal health care, according to a survey of OBGYNs released Wednesday that provides one of the clearest views yet of how the U.S. Supreme Court decision has affected women’s health care in the United States. The poll by the health research nonprofit KFF reveals that the Dobbs ruling — which ended federal protection on the right to abortion — affected maternal mortality and how pregnancy-related medical emergencies are managed, precipitated a rise in requests for sterilization and has done much more than restrict abortion access. Many OBGYNs said it has also made their jobs more difficult and legally perilous than before, while leading to worse outcomes for patients. The findings are the first nationally representative survey of OBGYNs since the Dobbs ruling, after which at least 15 states now ban abortion outright or within a few weeks of conception.
She Just Had a Baby. Soon, She'll Start 7th Grade. In the fall of 2022, Ashley was raped by a stranger in the yard outside her home, her mother says. For weeks, she didn’t tell anybody what happened, not even her mom. But Regina knew something was wrong. Ashley used to love going outside to make dances for her TikTok, but suddenly she refused to leave her bedroom. When she turned 13 that November, she wasn't in the mood to celebrate. “She just said, ‘It hurts,’” Regina remembers. “She was crying in her room. I asked her what was wrong, and she said she didn’t want to tell me.” (To protect the privacy of a juvenile rape survivor, TIME is using pseudonyms to refer to Ashley and Regina; Peanut is the baby’s nickname.) The signs were obvious only in retrospect. Ashley started feeling sick to her stomach; Regina thought it was related to her diet. At one point, Regina even asked Ashley if she was pregnant, and Ashley said nothing. Regina hadn’t yet explained to her daughter how a baby is made, because she didn’t think Ashley was old enough to understand. “They need to be kids,” Regina says. She doesn’t think Ashley even realized that what happened to her could lead to a pregnancy. On Jan. 11, Ashley began throwing up so much that Regina took her to the emergency room at Northwest Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale. When her bloodwork came back, the hospital called the police. One nurse came in and asked Ashley, “What have you been doing?” Regina recalls. That’s when they found out Ashley was pregnant. “I broke down,” Regina says.
It is tragic that the girl was raped. It is a very tough and awkward situation for her going into middle school, but hopefully the girl and her family find it in themselves to celebrate the life of Peanut. Every life is a gift worth celebrating, even if society does not see it that way. Maybe one day the girl and her family will be thankful she did not abort her baby. It would be very sad to know your whole family wanted to abort you and would prefer that you not exist.
Celebrate maybe, as long it does not involve any form of public support for education, health care, food, etc.
I believe in supporting a child by some form of public support for education, healthcare, and even food. Would you celebrate Peanut's life at all? Would you celebrate a baby with a middle school mother who was raped? Or would you make a wish that Peanut rather not exist? Would you tell that to this person's face when they are older and capable of understanding? Would you tell them that your life would be better if they did not exist?
