Summary
An Idaho doctor testified that confusion over the state’s strict abortion bans left a miscarrying patient “passed around like a hot potato” as doctors avoided treating her out of fear of legal consequences.
The 14-week pregnant woman, suffering heavy bleeding and anemia, was denied care during three ER visits before being admitted against hospital rules, miscarrying, and requiring a blood transfusion.
The testimony is part of a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s abortion laws, which ban most abortions with few exceptions, leaving patients in dangerous situations without timely care.
At this point these abortion bans should be called Matricide Approvals
Genuinely, they should be called Matricide Laws. Tank it the same way Republicans keep trying to tank “Obamacare”
They’re the ones who came up with the name Obamacare, so that it would tank on name alone.
Yes, exactly. Which is why people should start going to town hall meetings, Senate hearings, etc. and asking various questions about “Matricide Laws.” When they get corrected that these are abortion bans, explain that the law is killing hopeful mothers and these lawmakers are okay with it—if matricide wasn’t the point, it certainly appears to be a welcome side-effect.
Remember when Republicans hated the idea of death panels?
Every accusation is a confession.
Edit: Ah should have read down before replying, but fuck it, it bears repeating.
These aren’t death panels, they are death funnels.
Hollywood should start making movie after movie where the protagonist loses a loved one to some fucking asinine Republican laws, and then just goes on a vengeance spree.
Build a whole new MCU-style universe just around the backwards-ass shitstain policies coming out of these freeloader states, and a whole cast of kid-diddling fuckwads who are taken out by the wrath of righteous anger. People would watch that shit.
Is this the second plot that Hallmark has discovered?
Hero drops a card on the bodies of his fallen enemies
“Have a Hallmark moment, assholes”
That would be awesome.
Get Bruce Willis to do it.
A 90s Bruce, definitely. Today’s, not so much…
Perhaps Jason Statham? Bruce Campbell?
I mean, they’ve already co-opted the Punisher - an anti-cop vigilante - into their iconography, despite being the party of the “thin blue line” and “the party of law and order.” Anything we could hope to create to satirize them would just arouse them without a sense of irony or self awareness.
The boys would disagree. You just make it more and more obvious who the bad guys are, the longer it goes.
“God Bless America” is almost that
Hot potato is the Republican form of health care.
They have concepts of a plan though.
Anyone else remember Death Panels?
Well no worries, once Trump is in office these women won’t have any healthcare available to them.
It’s going to get worse. What I have not seen is how we help. What actions can we take today, tomorrow, and next week will help those impacted by this step backward? I get being mad. I get being informed. But elections put us in a precarious place and real people need help tomorrow…now. Every one of these articles should include a call to action and I have a 9 to 5 trying to keep mine above water so just tell me. We need to solve problems.
