• barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I have to wonder if the Doctors weren’t trolling her a bit. She had an ectopic pregnancy at 5 weeks. Not only is the abortion necessary, it was within the six-week limit, so it was perfectly legal on all counts. So why would they claim they were confused about the law?

    I suspect they wanted to teach an arrogant Florida Republican a lesson about politics encroaching on the medical decisions between a doctor and their patient, and made her jump through a bunch of hoops first, just to make her feel the fear, anxiety, anger, and frustration of the average citizen whose medical care is being dictated by MAGA Nazis.

    Remember, we are only hearing the side of a professional MAGA Nazi, so she’s a proven liar.

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      The 5 weeks pregnant vs 6 week ban is a bit more ambiguous than you might think.

      The Florida 6 week ban calculates the 6 weeks from the first day of the last menstrual period, not from fetal size or date of conception. https://abortiondefensenetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Florida-April-2025-2-1.pdf

      In general, ovulation occurs 12-17 days into the menstrual cycle. Florida’s ban is more like a 3 to 4 week ban than a 6 week.

      Edit: spelled ban as can once

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      3 months ago

      That would have some significant medical ethics issues. She nearly died. Do no harm, and that’s regardless of the patient’s political ideology.

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      “roughly five weeks”

      Since weeks are counted from the beginning of her last period, not conception, this operation must have happened within one week of her missed period. Perhaps it wasn’t so clearly within the law.

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    She should have stood by her religious and political principles, and just rode it out. It was God’s, and MAGA’s, will to put her through that ordeal, and he expected her to accept her fate.

    Instead, she defied The MAGA Lord and fought to have a Democratic abortion. She’s a Democrat now, destined for an eternity in a fiery torturous Hell. May God have mercy on her damned Democratic Soul.

    /S, nobody really believes that nonsense.

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      As someone raised by conservatives, they absolutely do believe such nonsense. Remove the sarcasm, and you sound exactly like my dad.

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      I didn’t realize there were pro-lifers that accepted “it’s not an abortion if the fetus wasn’t going to be viable”. You could pretty easily extend that to full term. Hell with medical debt, I don’t see how there’s much chance in a lot of cases even post partum.

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    The mere idea that anyone has to perform a medical procedure on a pregnant woman relating to the pregnancy and hesitates, proves that the law is the issue.

    Someone will undoubtedly try to get a bill passed somewhere that starts labeling any removal of a fetus from a woman as abortion when the medical community is telling you that is not the case. These anti-abortion supporters want woman to get pregnant and stay pregnant. They don’t care if you have medical complications that lead to death. To think they care is just a lost cause.

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      Perfectly valid, until one of those that are making the rules and sentencing women to death by pregnancy are suddenly faced with it themselves. Then the hypocrisy starts.

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    I read the WSJ article and she is absolutely infuriating. Her reasoning contains several fallacies:

    False Cause:

    “It was absolute fearmongering at its worst”

    She blames political messaging instead of considering that vague legal language created legitimate professional uncertainty.

    Straw Man:

    “There will be some comments like, ‘Well, thank God we have abortion services,’ even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion”

    This is particularly frustrating. Advocates aren’t celebrating her needing an “abortion”, they’re pointing out her experience is exactly what they predicted: doctors hesitating due to legal uncertainty. She had to argue with staff, pull up laws on her phone, and call the governor’s office during a medical emergency. That’s the system breakdown advocates warned about, not a misunderstanding of medical definitions.

    False Dilemma:

    “We have turned the conversation about women’s healthcare into two camps: pink hats and pink ribbons. It’s either breast cancer or abortion.”

    This drastically oversimplifies complex healthcare policy into just two opposing sides and the irony is staggering. It’s like a company ignoring safety advocates’ warnings about a confusing manual, then when accidents happen, blaming those advocates for ‘scaring’ workers instead of fixing the manual.

    She lived the very scenario abortion rights advocates had been warning about all along, yet somehow, in her mind, the problem isn’t the law, it’s the people who tried to stop it from hurting her in the first place.

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      My friend is a doctor and said that the number of people denying COVID is real while they died in the hospital is… significantly higher than 0.

      It blew my mind that they could literally be hours away from death and still submitted it was a “liberal hoax”. I just…can’t.

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    My cousin died of that. I still remember her face in the casket. So unrecognizable due to all the pregnancy bloating. She was such a beautiful woman. Her kids are doing good by her but ectopic pregnancies are nothing to laugh at. You as the pregnant person are given a choice, do you want to stay a live or have the baby. Then you go under. My cousin never woke up. I highly doubt that she would be smiling holding the baby clothes if the baby had died. And she knew of this too late to abort and too early in the pregnancy to not realize she was going to die. Imagine knowing the exact time, place and reason for your death and not actually be able to prevent it.

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    3 months ago

    She’s somewhat got a point still
    Democrats have become complacent in letting the repub’s hysteria spread like a bad virus.
    We got no one left to blame but ourselves atp, right?

    • sndmn@lemmy.caBanned
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      No. You’re the exact opposite of right. Also the exact opposite of smart.

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        I didn’t claim to be smart, but I’m also not seeing anyone spell out how I’m wrong either.

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          I’m also not seeing anyone spell out how I’m wrong either

          At no point is one group accountable for another group’s actions in cases like this.

          How’s that?

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          So, basically you’re saying is that you’re right by default because no one is willing to challenge your opinion? When in reality, it’s easier to just down vote then address such nonsense.

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            I don’t think that’s what I’m ‘basically saying’ I was just highlighting that if I’m wrong, no one has made it known to me or others specifically why I’m wrong or on what grounds. This has been a fun experiment to see what insults and downvotes can be hurled over a lot of nothing.

            • Tony Bark@pawb.socialOP
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              This has been a fun experiment to see what insults and downvotes can be hurled over a lot of nothing.

              Trying to put yourself above others by claiming all of this was some sort of elaborate “joke” really is not good look for you.

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                Apologies, but we are temporary text passed via electrons–I promise I didn’t intend to position myself above others as a joke. I don’t know who’s worried about how they look on the fediverse, but that would be kinda silly, wouldn’t you agree?

        • tomkatt@lemmy.world
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          “It’s not my fault for spreading misinformation, hysteria, and making overt moves to oppress others. It’s your fault for not stopping me.”

          Validating and correcting information takes time, research, and evidence. Spewing garbage only requires a mouth and optional amplification.

          Bullshit is impossible to stop this way because it travels faster than the corrections. By the time the crap is addressed, there are people who will still believe it in the face of evidence and in defiance of reality, and in the meantime, six more pieces of bullshit to debunk have popped up.

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            Worst of all, the people that need to hear the debunking live in a right-wing media universe where they’ll never hear an honest take on it, or never hear about it at all.

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            I know I’m messing this quote up, but “A lie can travel around the world a half dozen times before the truth finishes tying its shoes.”

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      In all seriousness: it was an ectopic pregnancy, 5 weeks along. Technically legal to perform under Florida law, so in theory it shouldn’t have been a problem to have it done even under current law.

      To be clear, none of this is meant to be an enforcement of that law, any other laws about abortion on the books, or the anti-abortion movement in general. I can absolutely understand providers being skittish about anything even remotely borderline with these laws in place, just trying to get the basic facts into the comments because good arguments are worthless if it’s about incorrect facts

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          And is there any medical proof that can stand up to brainworm addled pseudoscience in court ? Would you bet your career and your freedom on that?

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          If it’s a matter of days you could probably just lie about the timing of your last period. Those weeks are calculated from the date of your last period, not from the date of conception, so as long as you’re the only one who knows your cycle you could probably lie a little bit.

          Which also makes a 5 week deadline more insane than most people realize. Given a steady 4 week cycle, you have 1 week to realize your period is late, schedule and perform an abortion. A lot of people do not have a steady cycle, and those may very well not notice until it’s too late, even if they track their cycle.

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      SHE needed one. That’s the only reason. The answer was No for everyone else, but Yes for her. Nobody can kill babies but her.

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      She’s in the elite ruling class, so she gets to do whatever the fuck she wants with impunity while projecting false accusations onto anyone who fits in the ‘other’ category while her dumbass base of uneducated gerrymandered trolls eats it up.