Abortion
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The Press is Falling for Anti-Abortion “Fetal Heartbeat” Propaganda
Reporters are parroting — and spreading — sentimental falsehoods.
“Once a fetal heartbeat could be detected, typically around the sixth week of pregnancy … ”
When I read this phrase in the New Yorker, referring to Texas’s first abortion ban, I shot off a letter to the editor. “This is misleading,” I wrote. “There is no heartbeat at six weeks because the fetus does not yet have a heart. As San Francisco OB-GYN Dr. Jennifer Kerns told NPR: ‘What we’re really detecting is a grouping of cells that are initiating some electrical activity. In no way is this detecting a functional cardiovascular system or a functional heart.’” I noted that “a six-week fetus is about the size and shape of a baked bean.”
If the vaunted New Yorker copy desk could let this bit of anti-abortion bunk stand without comment, what was going on? I combed the media. Not just the National Review — which calls corrections like Dr. Kerns’s “mendacity” — or the Catholic press but also mainstream local and national news outlets including CNN, The Associated Press, Reuters, U.S. News & World Report, and PBS were parroting the same descriptor of the inaccurately — and of course strategically — named “fetal heartbeat” laws being debated or enacted in states from Idaho to Iowa, Georgia to New Hampshire.
The chorus resounded from websites, television, and radio from coast to coast: South Carolina was debating a law that “bans most abortions after early cardiac activity can be detected in a fetus or embryo, which can commonly be detected as early as six weeks into pregnancy”; in Georgia, a “law banning abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected, typically around six weeks”; Nebraska’s legislature made an “unconventional move … after conservatives failed to advance a bill that would have banned abortion once cardiac activity can be detected — generally around six weeks of pregnancy.”
A number of the reports got it half right, adding that when the so-called heartbeat is first detected, many women do not even know they are pregnant.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20230527101124/https://theintercept.com/20
23/05/27/abortion-fetal-heartbeat-propaganda-press-coverage/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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A Year After Dobbs, the Anti-Abortion Right Is Grilling Doctors on Tattoos, Tweets, and Too-Strong Beliefs
Unsatisfied with humiliating patients, the anti-abortion right is escalating a time-tested tactic: Make doctors grovel.
Judith Levine, June 24 2023, 6:00 a.m.
Some three hours into the 14-hour inquisition of Dr. Caitlin Bernard before the Indiana physician’s licensing board, the assistant attorney general asked her an odd question: “Do you have a tattoo of a coat hanger that says, ‘Trust women,’ on your body?”
It was hard to tell which part offended him more: the coat hanger or “trust women.”
Bernard’s attorney objected to the question as irrelevant. And legally speaking, it was. For the record, Bernard does have such a tattoo, on her left foot, inked years ago to remind her of life in the bad old days. She is not ashamed of it.
But the question was certainly not an opening for the doctor to express pride in her profession and her advocacy of reproductive health care. It was not meant to seek information. Nor was the query a misstep. The interrogator, Cory Voight, was on a mission to prove this respected OB-GYN unfit to practice medicine.
But, it seemed, even that was not enough. As the surrogate for his boss, the fiercely anti-abortion Indiana state Attorney General Todd Rokita, Voight wanted to tear the defendant down emotionally and in the eyes of the public. Asking a woman in a professional hearing about a mark on her body — using the word “body” — was part of a larger strategy, one long deployed by anti-abortion forces against abortion-seekers. Now they’re using it against providers and advocates as well. The strategy is humiliation.
Bernard’s trial, at the May 25 meeting of Indiana’s physician’s licensing board, was the latest chapter in Rokita’s yearlong smear campaign. In June 2022, just after the Dobbs decision triggered the misnamed “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban in Ohio, Bernard performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from that state. She told a local reporter the girl’s age, gestational stage, and state of origin, not her name or any other identifying details. She spoke again at a reproductive rights rally, warning that thousands of Indianans, including children, would be subject to similar, unnecessary trauma should the state pass an abortion ban in an upcoming special session. The case became national news. Bernard was celebrated as a hero.
Rokita was apoplectic. First, he circulated the calumny that Bernard had invented the patient. When it turned out the patient existed and a suspected perpetrator was arrested, Rokita cast around for laws Bernard might have broken. He came up with another false allegation — that she’d violated patient privacy and reporting laws — and petitioned the board to revoke her license. To do the job, Rokita sent the slimy-mouthed Voight. During the trial, many of his questions began, “Isn’t it true that …”
In another volley of questions, attempting to show that Bernard used the rape victim as a political tool, Voight declared, “No physician has been as brazen in pursuit of their own agenda.” “Brazen” is another one of those words, evoking “brazen hussy.” “She is unfit to practice medicine.” Morally unfit, that is.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20230624102107/https://theintercept.com/20
23/06/24/dobbs-abortion-doctors-humiliation/
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The Controversial movie Blonde really wasn't so graphic comapred to the stuff you get on tv
'Full Frontal Nudity, Oral Sex and More: Why ‘Passages,’ ‘Blonde’ and 19 More Films Earned the NC-17 Rating'
https://variety.com/?post_type=pmc_list&p=1235385545
A 6,000-year-old Stone Age burial of a woman with a baby cradled in her arm was discovered in 2015 in the central Netherlands city of Nieuwegein.
It is the oldest infant burial ever found in the Netherlands.
In many eras, the absence of medical knowledge made childbirth a dangerous passage, reflecting a mother's love and courage for her child. The joy of new life often came with the shadow of risk, a testament to the enduring strength and resilience of mothers across ages.
https://twitter.com/Power_History/status/1690460379166461952
As the Greco-Persian Wars allowed for the dominance of Western politics, the following Peloponnesian Wars provided the basis for poles within Western politics.
Though both Greek, hyper-conservative Sparta and hyper-liberal (for the age) Athens were about as politically and morally opposite as two states could be.
And the concrete results of their fighting show us how these abstract moralities actually play out in reality
https://gettr.com/post/p2o1b4v82ef
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In Backwoods USA, Mom Sentenced to Two Years In Prison for helping Daughter
Bill Haskell | September 24, 2023 7:30 am
https://angrybearblog.com/2023/09/backwoods-usa-mom-sentenced-to-two-y
ears-for-helping-daughter
US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills, Backwoods and Out Houses USA, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/22/burgess-abortion-pill-
nebraska-mother-daughter
This is not horrific. It is what happens to people when there is no way out. The horrific part is the state which forces people to take any means possible.
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Jessica Burgess, a Nebraska mother accused of helping her teenage daughter use pills to end her pregnancy, was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison.
Burgess and her daughter, Celeste Burgess, stand accused of working together to end Celeste Burgess’s pregnancy in April 2022.
According to prosecutors, after the pair bought pills to end the pregnancy, Celeste Burgess gave birth to a stillborn fetus. At the time, Nebraska law banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Celeste Burgess’s pregnancy was well past that point, according to court records.
Police say that the Burgesses buried the fetal remains. An examination of the remains suggested they may have also been burned, according to court documents.
Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to charges of false reporting, providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, and concealing, removing or abandoning a dead human body. She was sentenced to one year in prison each charge, but the sentences for false reporting and tampering with human remains will run concurrently, with the sentence for the illegal abortion to served consecutively with the sentences for the other charges, a spokesperson for the Madison county courthouse said.
Celeste Burgess also took a plea deal and was sentenced to 90 days for concealing or abandoning a dead body earlier this year.
Although the case occurred before the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, it has been seen as a harbinger of how law enforcement may prosecute people for ending their own pregnancies in a post-Roe era – and how giant tech companies could go along with it.
Court documents in the case revealed that Facebook’s parent company Meta supplied police with the private Facebook messages that Celeste and Jessica Burgess had sent one another. In one message, Celeste told Jessica: “Remember we burn the evidence.”
Although most states do not ban people from inducing their own pregnancies – abortion bans typically penalize abortion providers, not patients – abortion rights advocates have long warned that if a prosecutor wants to target someone for a self-managed abortion, they will find a statute that is elastic enough to do so.
Celeste Burgess was released from Madison county jail earlier this month, after serving a little more than half of her 90-day sentence, local Nebraska news outlet KTIV reported. At her sentencing, Celeste Burgess said that her family could not have afforded a funeral for fetal remains, according to Courthouse News. (In a financial affidavit obtained by Vice, Jessica Burgess said she had $400 to her name.) Celeste Burgess also reportedly deals with multiple mental health issues and became pregnant due to an abusive relationship.
Jessica Burgess was set to undergo a court-ordered psychological evaluation ahead of her sentencing. But the evaluation was canceled due to lack of funding, according to KTIV.
Nebraska law now bans almost all abortions past 12 weeks of pregnancy.
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Planned Parenthood bus outside DNC sees eight abortion patients, does nine vasectomies
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/aug/22/planned-parenthood-bu
s-outside-dnc-sees-eight-abor/
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Abortion of Babies the number #1 Issue For USA Women?...but vaccine booster shots and you say no? how dare people control their bodies!
women raped by Biden and Harris's illegal aliens have abortion as their top issue, or if it's immigration or illegal invaders are part of peoples imagination...
and government must pay out!
the role of abortion of unborn kids or abortion votes on the ballot this election?
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4929063-abortion-access-young-wo
men-voters-poll/
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Democrats lost, the party Aborts itself... have they learned today ...the hard way... that they need to talk about other things than OrangeMan bad or snuffing out the unborn in the womb
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Biden awards Medal of Freedom to Abort Woman, an Open Borders political woman the Abortionist
Richards has daddy issues, the daughter of the late Texas Gov. Ann Richards, left the Anti-reproductive child termination organization after leading its Abortions for 12 years.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-awards-medal-freedom-former-plan
ned-parenthood-president/story?id=116067740
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The USA is Aborting Itself?
and some crazy Feminists just seen it all like a Late Stage Abortion
A mistrial is declared in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy. Here’s what could happen next
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/05/lindsay-clancy-mistrial-what
s-next/
Who is Corie Walsh? US mom accused of killing 2-year-old son attempts suicide hours after texting about Lindsay Clancy
https://news24online.com/world/who-is-corie-walsh-us-mom-accused-of-ki
lling-2-year-old-son-attempts-suicide-hours-after-texting-about-lindsay-clancy-know-what-is-the-clancy-case/916217/
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