This week, ProPublica released two studies tracing the deaths of two women to Georgia’s six-week abortion ban—the first to be reported since the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Twenty-eight-year-old Amber Thurman took abortion pills but did not completely expel the fetal tissue from her body. She developed a serious infection and went to the hospital, where physicians would ordinarily have performed a dilation and curettage to remove the remaining tissue. In Thurman’s case, however, physicians failed to act for roughly 20 hours. They waited to operate until the situation was dire, and Thurman died.
Candi Miller, a mother of three, suffered from lupus, diabetes, and hypertension, and she was warned that her health was so fragile that she might not survive another pregnancy. When she accidentally became pregnant again, she ordered abortion pills online. Like Thurman, Miller didn’t entirely expel the fetal tissue and developed a serious infection. But Miller did not seek out care. Her family reported that she was aware of Georgia’s criminal abortion law and afraid of what would happen if she sought emergency care. Her husband found her unresponsive in bed, her 3-year-old daughter at her side.
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It is about controlling women. You do as we say even if you die.
I understand that I come from a place of pretty significant privilege, but it is wild to me that when faced with these kinds of situations anyone is gambling on the kinds of medical care they might/might not be able to receive in these red states with restrictive abortion laws.
I know that if any of my friends, even if we’re not particularly close, came to me and said they needed me to drive them halfway across the country for an abortion because they may not be able to get life-saving medical care in our state if something goes wrong, we’re going, right then and there, no questions asked, I’m calling out sick from work, running up my credit cards on gas and hotel rooms and whatever else we may need and we’re hitting the road, and if needed I won’t ever breathe a word of it to anyone.
The fact that people are in a position where they feel like they can’t do that or don’t have people they think they can trust to do that for them is maddening.
So, in cases like Ectopic Pregnancies, time is of the essence. By the time you’ve driven halfway across the country to get an abortion, you’ve already done permanent damage to your reproductive system.
Also, I think one of the other main contributing factors is that physicians are afraid to diagnose because a misdiagnosis to be on the safe side results in jail time for them. So quite often, by the time you know you need to drive across the country it’s already too late.
All y’all women in these states should forego sex - with men - until youre “allowed” to prioritize yourself and triage your own needs.
Why gamble on the alternative? You’ve already been shown those in power arent operating in good faith, it’s like …you don’t pass laws that could allow someone malaligned to legally commit atrocit. The “they would never do that” arguments don’t hold water. If they’d never do it, then it doesn’t need to be law. If the law allows it, then there are ALWAYS those that will push to the absolute line of the letter, just cuz they can.
Taking the high road is absolute bullshit. That’s personal gaslighting and virtue signalling to others for reinforcement of what, in reality, is the abandonment of those whom you should be in solidarity with, stuck on the low road due to actions outside of their control. Like all of us are. We have maybe 5% control of our lives. Freedom is what you do with what this joke of existence does to you. Like 10 people can self-actualize. The rest of us are left dealing with disaster after disaster after emergency after crisis after no sleep.
Keep yr head down and just grind, right? That’s the move, yea? Well that’s how you die. Every stress knocking a point of your HP until you stub ur toe one-day and fall into the red, allowing the dam called your aorta to burst at its seams and yr dead before you hit the ground. If you had the money to handle everything Iife thru your way, you’d prob live another 30 years.
And grind for what? There’s no retirement. Inflation will eat yr savings and medical bills will swallow whatever you acquired, guaranteeing generational wealth is a thing of the past, not only our children, but Gen Z and Millennials aren’t going to inherit a fucking thing after the hospitals pick your parents corpses clean.
We need to straight up birth strike. Don’t feed the machine our replacements. And when everything finally boils over, and it will, let me remind you that none of us have a future to protect. You have better odds for a retirement overthrowing our yokes than believing this time will be any different, that this time we can trust the capitalists.
what’s that supposed to be on the sign? Half a baby’s head with a single curly hair?
It is a coat hanger harkening back to a time when women would have to get unsafe back alley abortions.
Ahhh thanks. I get that art is subjective but damn I was confused.
In an odd way you were right. Have an abortion have no kid.
