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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • Half true. According to texas law, how it is written, the doctors could have aborted the fetus and saved the woman. They chose not to.

    The partial birth the 17 week fetus was in was impossible to be saved, and it put the mothers condition in one risking her life (obviously). That met both criteria needed to legally abort in Texas.

    Yes, the anti abortion shit is too strict, and if it wasn’t so strict they probably wouldn’t have refused to abort. But it was still at least partially (substantially) on the fault of the doctor/hospital that she died. They let her die because it may have caused some red tape.


  • The article states it, itself. It would have been a “gray area” of the law.

    But that’s barely even true itself. If you want it straight fromm the horses mouth, here it is in black and white from texas’ own state law library.

    "Abortions are banned, with certain exceptions Chapter 170A of the Texas Health & Safety Code prohibits abortions outright, except in certain circumstances.

    Section 170A.002 prohibits a person from performing, inducing, or attempting an abortion. There is an exception for situations in which the life or health of the pregnant patient is at risk. In order for the exception to apply, three factors must be met:

    A licensed physician must perform the abortion. The patient must have a life-threatening condition and be at risk of death or “substantial impairment of a major bodily function” if the abortion is not performed. “Substantial impairment of a major bodily function” is not defined in this chapter. The physician must try to save the life of the fetus unless this would increase the risk of the pregnant patient’s death or impairment."

    So it is absolutely impossible to save a 17 week fetus that has already flipped and is down in the position this fetus was in. It’s life could in no way be saved. Then, what is obviously apparent is that the mothers condition was risking her life.

    So yes, by texas law they could have saved the woman. As to how many lives that doctor would save if he were still arrested or lost his license(skipping the debate of if theyd be arrested or not), probably extremely few. Their patients wouldn’t just no longer get medical care. Their patients would see a different doctor. So the only patients saved would be patients that this doctor could have figured something out to save them, that most other doctors would have missed, and I’ma go out on a limb here and guess we aren’t talking about someone like Dr.House.

    But you know what would have saved many more lives? Showing that it’s OK to use that law to save a person with an unviable fetus before it kills another 50 women.


  • For all the shitty things about missouri, they have voting done up pretty well. 2 hours paid time off required to go vote on election day and anyone can show up like a month ahead of election day to their county clerks office or wherever the counties location is set up to early vote, plus a mail in voter system for people who can’t physically go vote. I already vote a couple weeks ago and it took like 15 minutes.