Those ant-abortion activists article that is linked, they are called for their release in Project 2025. They claim it was a peaceful protest and one of them was sentenced to 5 years due to her beliefs. I guess they left out all those fetuses she was collecting
JD Vance says people who don’t have children are “sociopathic,” “psychotic” and “deranged.”
But he speaks highly of his Mamaw who: 1) poured kerosene on his grandpa and set him on fire; 2) threatened to run over his friend whom she considered a bad influence; and 3) this doozy:
Congrats on the starred review! I'm so excited for your book, and grateful to you for doing this vital work. I live in Iowa, and my ob/gyn has already moved her practice to IL. She's still willing to see us as clients, but, of course, insurance won't pay for an out of network provider. I don't blame her, but it is really hard to lose a trusted doctor.
I've started a monthly recurring donation to the Iowa Abortion Access Fund, and it's a wonderful org I'd encourage others to donate to as well.
Congrats on the starred review, Jessica! (Have of course pre-ordered your book). I continue to be amazed at the work you and Grace continually produce, how you manage to cover (as the reviewer noted) "every ban, every court case and anti-abortion strategy." It is astounding and a public service that will remembered for the ages.
Antidote to Thiel/Musk Paypal mafia selling this country to Pootie.
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More than 400 venture capitalists and tech leaders have now pledged their support to the Harris campaign.
The number yesterday stood at 100.
Mark Cuban and Reid Hoffman are among the growing list of business leaders who've signed a letter published on a new 'VCs for Kamala' website.
"We spend our days looking for, investing in and supporting entrepreneurs who are building the future," the letter says. "We are pro-business, pro-American dream, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-technological progress."
I dealt with the 'abortion reversal' folks in Colorado. The medical, nursing and pharmacy boards had public hearings to determine if 'abortion reversal' was standard of care. Other than personal and ad hominin attacks, they had no data. Fortunately the boards decided it was not standard of care and there is data that it is dangerous.
I have yet to hear anything like even an elementary description of some procedure that could be called an abortion reversal. If abortion is supposed to murder, then would abortion reversal be bringing back unborn children from the dead? Sounds creepy.
Exactly. We have "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" in Colorado- they're probably everywhere. They're the main folks pushing this. The have a 24 hour hotline. In our town they advertise for free pregnancy tests, STI screening and ultrasounds. They're not using accredited ultrasound technicians. They use a lot of guilt, especially religious guilt to convince folks to continue their pregnancy. They give gifts and offer support to vulnerable pregnant people and tell them they'll help them. Until it's too late for an abortion.
I had a patient come in at 25 weeks in tears. She didn't have insurance (pre Obama care) and she felt so stupid and was worried she'd harmed her baby. She didn't realize the crisis pregnancy center was not prenatal care. They wore white coats, dipped her urine, did ultrasounds. She asked when her next ultrasound would be when she was 20+ weeks. They told her she wouldn't be getting any more ultrasounds, it was too late for her to have an abortion.
She was shocked. She told them she'd never intended to have an abortion, she just didn't have insurance, so she was going there for prenatal care. That's when she found out it wasn't medical care. Everything turned out fine for her, but she carried so much guilt.
I had numerous patients get guilted into continuing their pregnancies with the promise of support from the crisis pregnancy center. Until they were past the point of being able to have an abortion. Then they were basically told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
The folks who are pro birth and not pro child baffle me.
Tweets and elsewhere reacting to yesterday's NABJ, people are saying Vance can explain bi-racial to trump. Well, from the pictures I see his children being fair skinned and given what we know of him, Vance will distance himself from his wife, calling her the nanny, LOL!
.Karoline Leavitt, Convicted Felon Donald Trump's propaganda specialist, is spreading lies and propaganda to the media almost as well as her superior, Felon Trump. Only lies, misinformation, deceit, dishonesty, trickery, and then, more lies come from their two-faced lying mouths.
Can we make a rebuttal of the "post-birth execution of babies" once and for all?
As a retired OB/GYN, I know that is not a thing that happens.
Contrarily, the additional burdens on families experiencing miscarriages and previable preterm births have not been explained to the average person. When grieving people experience these losses, if it happens in a hospital setting, the "products of conception" are handled for the family, ameliorating the burden and heartbreak on them. Imagine making an individual or a family have to make funeral arrangements for a container of blood and tissue, to satisfy the new definition of "fetal personhood." The general amount repeated is four hundred dollars - the amount of money that will plummet most people into a financial crisis. Pregnancy is an economic issue. Most families are shocked, grieving and overwhelmed when a miscarriage - also officially termed a spontaneous abortion, previable preterm birth, dangerous complication of pregnancy, stillbirth, or other emergency occurs, and really are not able to process handling the additional (and unnecessary) burden of making decisions and arrangements regarding handling and disposal of fetal remains. The proposed legislation giving a fertilized egg "personhood" is comparable to saying every seed sown in a field is the equivalent of a full grown plant being harvested - nature doesn't work that way.
Bottom line: Abortion is a part of necessary health care. Bans result in additional preventable deaths and complications. Provide CARE - NO MATTER WHAT.
In this comment, you have not addressed the issue of "post-birth execution of babies". The accusation does not extend from miscarriages at all, but rather full term pregnancies of a neonate with severe gestational defects or other complications that make survival after birth impossible. When this occurs, it is usually recommended that either the birth proceed normally with euthenasia performed to prevent the suffering of the neonate (infant, baby). For example, as reported here and AED, a gestation advanced to full term and the neonate had no head. Nothing was there and either the neonate was dead, or didn't have much chance of survival afterwards. These things really happen and the "fetal viability" limit is not a reasonable imposition on doctors and women.
To accuse doctors and patients of executing babies under such circumstances is a cruel absurdity.
In some countries, severe birth defects are addressed with euthenasia, even where survivability is possible.
Jessica, with all due respect (and I couldn’t have more respect and admiration for you), I think that saying that exceptions don’t work because of “deliberately vague language” doesn’t connect enough dots for people. Exceptions don’t work because 1)the guidance they give for providers (when is a woman’s life in enough danger for a medical professional to conclude that she merits an abortion under the law?) is inadequate, and state medical societies have not stepped in to provide said guidance; and 2) the penalties for an abortion provider guessing wrong, despite using their best medical judgment, are so draconian. It is the combination of vague language and draconian penalties that make exceptions unworkable. Would a provider be more willing to apply their own interpretation of the law if the penalty were, say, a $100 fine, instead of loss of licensure and therefore livelihood and tens of years in prison, or even death? And, of course, the exceptions for rape and incest are unworkable because of the reporting requirements and revictimization of victims of sexual assault with invasive questions which imply that she is not to be believed.
A question—does the chart of expenditures on ballot measures reflect pro-choice expenditures only, or does it take into account expenditures from the forced birth side?
I think 1) qualifies as vague language and 2) again emphasizes vague language. Sounds like you are really in agreement.
I would say that the reason exceptions don't work is because of the lack of sincerity of those laying out exceptions. What is encouraging about providing exceptions is because doing so reveals a kind of embarrassment among those opposing abortion rights. Notice that there are plenty of anti-abortionists who are entirely happy to advance absolutely no exceptions. This is clearly the "unborn children" believers, the fanatical personhood-at-conception believers. There is no political support for these people.
It is natural to attack the weakness of exceptions because of this embarrassment. The more we know about gestation and its problems and the more we can explore the legal and social problems around exceptions for rape, incest and like, then the more we can apply pressure to this sore spot.
I’m puzzled why the Black Journalist Org would host Trump? They are journalists, they know he is racist, misogynist, liar etc. I get frustrated with any journalist who doesn’t call him on the lies or challenge his qualifications, his past behavior and contradicting statements.
Those ant-abortion activists article that is linked, they are called for their release in Project 2025. They claim it was a peaceful protest and one of them was sentenced to 5 years due to her beliefs. I guess they left out all those fetuses she was collecting
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JD Vance says people who don’t have children are “sociopathic,” “psychotic” and “deranged.”
But he speaks highly of his Mamaw who: 1) poured kerosene on his grandpa and set him on fire; 2) threatened to run over his friend whom she considered a bad influence; and 3) this doozy:
So it wasn't just me that had that posting get deleted. I immediately requested a review...
Remember, we voters are getting a spelling lesson. In 2024, it’s ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘w’. Weird.
Congrats on the starred review! I'm so excited for your book, and grateful to you for doing this vital work. I live in Iowa, and my ob/gyn has already moved her practice to IL. She's still willing to see us as clients, but, of course, insurance won't pay for an out of network provider. I don't blame her, but it is really hard to lose a trusted doctor.
I've started a monthly recurring donation to the Iowa Abortion Access Fund, and it's a wonderful org I'd encourage others to donate to as well.
Congrats on the starred review, Jessica! (Have of course pre-ordered your book). I continue to be amazed at the work you and Grace continually produce, how you manage to cover (as the reviewer noted) "every ban, every court case and anti-abortion strategy." It is astounding and a public service that will remembered for the ages.
Antidote to Thiel/Musk Paypal mafia selling this country to Pootie.
Tweet:
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
More than 400 venture capitalists and tech leaders have now pledged their support to the Harris campaign.
The number yesterday stood at 100.
Mark Cuban and Reid Hoffman are among the growing list of business leaders who've signed a letter published on a new 'VCs for Kamala' website.
"We spend our days looking for, investing in and supporting entrepreneurs who are building the future," the letter says. "We are pro-business, pro-American dream, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-technological progress."
I dealt with the 'abortion reversal' folks in Colorado. The medical, nursing and pharmacy boards had public hearings to determine if 'abortion reversal' was standard of care. Other than personal and ad hominin attacks, they had no data. Fortunately the boards decided it was not standard of care and there is data that it is dangerous.
I have yet to hear anything like even an elementary description of some procedure that could be called an abortion reversal. If abortion is supposed to murder, then would abortion reversal be bringing back unborn children from the dead? Sounds creepy.
It's using high dose progesterone after taking medication abortion. There was a study, but they stopped it early due bleeding and complications.
OK, not so creepy. Sounds like kind of a desperate kind of application and unreliable as well. More political, less medical.
Exactly. We have "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" in Colorado- they're probably everywhere. They're the main folks pushing this. The have a 24 hour hotline. In our town they advertise for free pregnancy tests, STI screening and ultrasounds. They're not using accredited ultrasound technicians. They use a lot of guilt, especially religious guilt to convince folks to continue their pregnancy. They give gifts and offer support to vulnerable pregnant people and tell them they'll help them. Until it's too late for an abortion.
I had a patient come in at 25 weeks in tears. She didn't have insurance (pre Obama care) and she felt so stupid and was worried she'd harmed her baby. She didn't realize the crisis pregnancy center was not prenatal care. They wore white coats, dipped her urine, did ultrasounds. She asked when her next ultrasound would be when she was 20+ weeks. They told her she wouldn't be getting any more ultrasounds, it was too late for her to have an abortion.
She was shocked. She told them she'd never intended to have an abortion, she just didn't have insurance, so she was going there for prenatal care. That's when she found out it wasn't medical care. Everything turned out fine for her, but she carried so much guilt.
I had numerous patients get guilted into continuing their pregnancies with the promise of support from the crisis pregnancy center. Until they were past the point of being able to have an abortion. Then they were basically told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
The folks who are pro birth and not pro child baffle me.
Tweets and elsewhere reacting to yesterday's NABJ, people are saying Vance can explain bi-racial to trump. Well, from the pictures I see his children being fair skinned and given what we know of him, Vance will distance himself from his wife, calling her the nanny, LOL!
I don’t get it - it’s the NRA that’s ok with killing children post-birth, not us!
.Karoline Leavitt, Convicted Felon Donald Trump's propaganda specialist, is spreading lies and propaganda to the media almost as well as her superior, Felon Trump. Only lies, misinformation, deceit, dishonesty, trickery, and then, more lies come from their two-faced lying mouths.
Thank you for laying this out so clearly.
thank you - extremely helpful coverage.
Can we make a rebuttal of the "post-birth execution of babies" once and for all?
As a retired OB/GYN, I know that is not a thing that happens.
Contrarily, the additional burdens on families experiencing miscarriages and previable preterm births have not been explained to the average person. When grieving people experience these losses, if it happens in a hospital setting, the "products of conception" are handled for the family, ameliorating the burden and heartbreak on them. Imagine making an individual or a family have to make funeral arrangements for a container of blood and tissue, to satisfy the new definition of "fetal personhood." The general amount repeated is four hundred dollars - the amount of money that will plummet most people into a financial crisis. Pregnancy is an economic issue. Most families are shocked, grieving and overwhelmed when a miscarriage - also officially termed a spontaneous abortion, previable preterm birth, dangerous complication of pregnancy, stillbirth, or other emergency occurs, and really are not able to process handling the additional (and unnecessary) burden of making decisions and arrangements regarding handling and disposal of fetal remains. The proposed legislation giving a fertilized egg "personhood" is comparable to saying every seed sown in a field is the equivalent of a full grown plant being harvested - nature doesn't work that way.
Bottom line: Abortion is a part of necessary health care. Bans result in additional preventable deaths and complications. Provide CARE - NO MATTER WHAT.
In this comment, you have not addressed the issue of "post-birth execution of babies". The accusation does not extend from miscarriages at all, but rather full term pregnancies of a neonate with severe gestational defects or other complications that make survival after birth impossible. When this occurs, it is usually recommended that either the birth proceed normally with euthenasia performed to prevent the suffering of the neonate (infant, baby). For example, as reported here and AED, a gestation advanced to full term and the neonate had no head. Nothing was there and either the neonate was dead, or didn't have much chance of survival afterwards. These things really happen and the "fetal viability" limit is not a reasonable imposition on doctors and women.
To accuse doctors and patients of executing babies under such circumstances is a cruel absurdity.
In some countries, severe birth defects are addressed with euthenasia, even where survivability is possible.
As a a retired Surgical Assistant, I second your excellent summation.
Kudos for praise for your book. I look forward to reading.
Jessica, with all due respect (and I couldn’t have more respect and admiration for you), I think that saying that exceptions don’t work because of “deliberately vague language” doesn’t connect enough dots for people. Exceptions don’t work because 1)the guidance they give for providers (when is a woman’s life in enough danger for a medical professional to conclude that she merits an abortion under the law?) is inadequate, and state medical societies have not stepped in to provide said guidance; and 2) the penalties for an abortion provider guessing wrong, despite using their best medical judgment, are so draconian. It is the combination of vague language and draconian penalties that make exceptions unworkable. Would a provider be more willing to apply their own interpretation of the law if the penalty were, say, a $100 fine, instead of loss of licensure and therefore livelihood and tens of years in prison, or even death? And, of course, the exceptions for rape and incest are unworkable because of the reporting requirements and revictimization of victims of sexual assault with invasive questions which imply that she is not to be believed.
A question—does the chart of expenditures on ballot measures reflect pro-choice expenditures only, or does it take into account expenditures from the forced birth side?
I think 1) qualifies as vague language and 2) again emphasizes vague language. Sounds like you are really in agreement.
I would say that the reason exceptions don't work is because of the lack of sincerity of those laying out exceptions. What is encouraging about providing exceptions is because doing so reveals a kind of embarrassment among those opposing abortion rights. Notice that there are plenty of anti-abortionists who are entirely happy to advance absolutely no exceptions. This is clearly the "unborn children" believers, the fanatical personhood-at-conception believers. There is no political support for these people.
It is natural to attack the weakness of exceptions because of this embarrassment. The more we know about gestation and its problems and the more we can explore the legal and social problems around exceptions for rape, incest and like, then the more we can apply pressure to this sore spot.
I’m puzzled why the Black Journalist Org would host Trump? They are journalists, they know he is racist, misogynist, liar etc. I get frustrated with any journalist who doesn’t call him on the lies or challenge his qualifications, his past behavior and contradicting statements.