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“Our men and women in uniform deserve Senate-confirmed leadership but the current situation began with your original sin of promulgating the Policy.”

Supporting a woman’s right to abortion = original sin. Got it. Misogyny is strong in these “christians’.

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They should cut the paternalistic nonsense and tell us why they’re against abortion. So far I’ve gotten nothing but convoluted responses.

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About Care Denied- Yes, it is torture to force women to become critically ill before ending a doomed pregnancy. It is cruel. But it is worse than that. Way worse. It is very, very dangerous to push these women’s bodies to the breaking point. Why? Because some of these women already have preexisting conditions that put them in a high risk category. Each person’s body has a tipping point and once you pass that tipping point then a cascading series of medical events can occur which can end in multi organ failure and death.

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I think of all the women who are going to have multiple health problems for the rest of their lives because they were allowed to almost die. This could make them uninsurable in our country. These complications could cost them serious money or even bankruptcy. A perfectly healthy woman could endure something like this and never be the same health-wise. These are crimes against humanity.

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The point about obgyn deserts and what this means for victims of domestic violence is heartbreaking. Those deserts are going to create a lot of cascading losses and harms that will be hard to definitively measure, especially in the short-term. God knows what the data is going to say when we get to five years post-Roe.

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I do understand there are other points of view, but anti-abortion is coercion, power over, control, misogyny...

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They’ll find a way to bury or sunny side it I guarantee but the reality will be bad.

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This is why physicians left pain care. “Exceptions” that are never good enough, law vs medicine, ways to scapegoat physicians and patients. Fear, random consequences. Not worth it. Public suffers.

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I agree, I don’t like “exceptions”. Healthcare between patient and physician. Choice.

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The forced Birthers definitely want every woman forced into gestational slavery. It's similar to the old political slogan "a chicken in every pot." only it's "a fetus in every uterus." *shudders*

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Every woman birthing at least one worker. Sigh.

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I hate to "like" that comment, but I get it.

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