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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 month ago (5 children)

She was 18. She was still a kid.

How can they call themselves pro-life?

How can they say they are protecting the children?

[–] eran_morad 76 points 1 month ago

They’re just exploiting a plethora of moron voters. They can say whatever the fuck they want and idiots are willing to subjugate themselves to hear it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

18's old enough for porn. That makes it OK

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago

Jesus christ that's fucking sad, and very preventable.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sending someone home after diagnosing them with sepsis. People should be in prison for this.

[–] Mango 7 points 1 month ago

That'd be the people holding a gun to these doctors' careers.

[–] LANIK2000 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

This is gonna be very insensitive, but ever since Americans gave a well known rapist and resident creep the presidency in a clear victory, I kinda stopped giving a shit about em. Americans routinely shit on the same human values the rest of the free world aspires to. Just read the UN human rights, Republicans openly oppose most of what's written there and Democrats don't care much either.

I mean women dying horrifying deaths in Russia, India or China rarely make the news, why should America be any different? It's fucking sad, but apparently that's what the American people want. Who am I to impose my foreign way of life on em? I was clearly mistaken to belive that the US has anything in common with us.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

You’re right, it is insensitive. These women are suffering because the majority of voters suck. They may have voted a certain way, and then they might deserve it. But even then my guess is a big chunk of trump voters have no idea what the actual effect of his plans are, and are victims of propaganda.

Sure people are suffering elsewhere, but it’s always sad to see a country regress in freedom and health.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Just be more accurate: it's about 25% of americans who are traitorous, backstabbing nazi cunts who voted for Trump. It's way not even close to half, to say nothing of all.

If this person was one of them, then yes, do save your sadness for elsewhere. Otherwise, it's like it happening to you.

[–] LANIK2000 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

25%. That makes every forth person in the streets a fascist. And then another large chunk are fascist enablers or apologists, considering the fact that they stand unopposed. If you want to say "Not all Americans", I got a newsflash. "Not all Chinese citizens" and "Not all Russians". Some absolutely wonderful people live in these countries and most just want to live happy lives, free from all this bullshit. All I'm saying is I no longer see an excuse to pretend like America is any different and is most definitely not a worthy partner of the free world. Or being in my news feed as if it was my neighbor.

The only difference for now is that we relied on the US as our largest partner and thus it has more power to fuck our lives over too, but that's temporary and something we have only ourselves to blame for. The signs were on the wall all along, and yet we believed America was somehow better. If Americans are fucking stupid, then we're fucking delusional.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I am glad I went to visit America back in the day when it was still somewhat okay. It was 10 years ago. I wouldn't be able to visit again with a clear conscience.

[–] Bytemeister 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which means that less than 25% were willing to stand against the traitorous, backstabbing nazi cunts who voted for Trump.

I don't feel better about the situation

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[–] Maggoty 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's not the winning line you think it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You say that as if 100% of Americans want this, I have friends there who never wanted any of this and I fear for them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Who am I to impose my foreign way of life on em?

Why would you? We dug the hole, we'll either bootstrap ourselves out of it or start Hitler 2.0 with an established military complex and nukes.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

Well done Texas 🫶

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, just as Jesus would have wanted.

[–] 2ugly2live 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, and it'll likely keep happening.

Good job, America.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

....But eggs...and muh border

[–] capital 2 points 1 month ago

Soon to be in all states.

[–] Ton 28 points 1 month ago

The fact there are still doctors and nurses in women's care in Texas at all baffles me. It's not like there's no jobs in sane states, Texas isn't even that cheap anymore.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Texas, the "please tread on me harder" state.

Texas has been Republican controlled for almost 3 decades. This travesty is what they want. Just as the town of Uvalde overwhelmingly voted Republican again.

They don't reflect, they don't learn. Texas is the biggest blowhard in the Union.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

"Go tread on them."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

High time to rebrand the self-proclaimed "pro-life" movement as what they in reality are: anti-life

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every prolife dipshit is the same when something is wrong with their pregnancy "my abortion matters" or "my abortion is different"

The prolife movement is a bunch of self-serving hypocrites that go to church

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The best way to whack at the hypocrites is to be in their congregations to respond to their bullshit directly in person

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

This is PROOF that Texas is Pro Life and Saving The Children!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Worth it."

~ Every Christian in Texas

[–] Bytemeister 16 points 1 month ago

"Whore"

~Every Christian in Texas

[–] LovableSidekick 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't fault the doctors - they couldn't perform the abortion without risking their own careers and possibly prison. The Texas legislature sacrificed that woman and others for Christian magic rattle-shaking.

[–] ThePyroPython 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But what I'd give to see a Doctor with the fucking stones to risk their career and prison to prostrate these shitheel lawmakers by telling them that their idiotic laws would have caused said doctor to break their Hippocratic Oath and ask them what is stronger: an Oath they made before their fellow man and witnessed by God, or the poorly written letter of the law.

I'd bet the fucking house that with that argument a jury wouldn't convict and, whilst it wouldn't undo the harm caused by the law, it would be the first precedent set in a common law system that would make state prosecutors more wary of enforcing said law. And a law that isn't enforced is functionally dead.

[–] LovableSidekick 4 points 1 month ago

That would make a good movie with a righteous rousing speech and all. IRL the shits have no shame, the public's outrage dies down, and people go back to scrolling their feeds.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fuck. Even my dog was able get this care a few short years ago when she only delivered half her litter. It's not a good way to go.

[–] samus12345 3 points 1 month ago

I didn't even think of that - animals still have access to abortion care in all these shithole states, don't they?

[–] eran_morad 9 points 1 month ago

muricaaaaaaa

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 8 points 1 month ago

If it's not illegal there needs to be a new "policy". If a girl like this comes into your hospital say, "Get out of Texas," and not another word.

[–] iAvicenna 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If the pastor farts the congregation shits

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you rightfully notice that the way out of this is bullshit is through influencing religious sects and institutions

[–] iAvicenna 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

and also electing a human being for as a president is a good start

[–] darthsid 6 points 1 month ago

Lol America - get fucked

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Judaism and Islam tend to be more strict with their laws and every topic has been discussed at length millennia ago. Yet both religions aren’t anywhere near as restrictive as some of the abortion laws passed in the US, to the point these restrictive laws infringe upon the religious freedom of Jewish and Muslim women. As I understand Christianity doesn’t concern itself with abortion yet Christian nationalists in the US are obsessed with it. Perhaps their obsession is more nationalistic and less religious.

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