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submitted 10 months ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

In the midst of the turmoil in July 2022, they learned Mayron was pregnant again. But this time, doctors warned she and her fetus might not survive.

The embryo had been implanted in scar tissue from her recent cesarean section. There was a high chance that the embryo could rupture, blowing open her uterus and killing her, or that she could bleed to death during delivery. The baby could come months early and face serious medical risks, or even die.

Tennessee already had some of the worst outcomes in the nation when measuring maternal health, infant mortality and child poverty. Lawmakers who paved the way for a new generation of post-Roe births did little to bolster the state’s meager safety net to support these babies and their families.

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[-] Lath@kbin.social 115 points 10 months ago

The solution is obvious. Stop having heterosexual sex.

Gay sex for everyone - the ultimate conservative goal!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago
[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Heh, because I'm trans I can have hetero sex and still not worry about pregnancy 😏

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

There had to be one advantage to being trans in conservative us.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago
[-] littlewonder@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Trans pals on level 9000 again.

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

They want to make that illegal too. Silly peasant, sex is for rich people. The rich can have any kind of sex they want.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Especially the "with a minor" kind apparently

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Put stuff in the water to make us gay please, it worked with the frogs!

[-] THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 14 points 10 months ago

Or make it airborne so republicans can't even blame us they don't wear mask or believe in airborne virus

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Don't go thinking they care about consistency...

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

As conservatives cheer. The only thing a conservative can offer this planet is misery.

[-] Ekybio@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

Conservatives will see the cruelty and argue: "Well, this is sad, but it is worth in order to keep Society healthy and pure".

Its a lie. But admitting that would mean facing the prospect of being evil all along.

So we all have to suffer instead.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

A lot of them also claim that it is interfering in god's will to allow anyone an abortion. A raped 10-year-old- no abortion. A fetus that will only live for six hours after birth and be in agony the entire time- no abortion. The woman and the fetus will both die without emergency medical intervention- no abortion.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago

while also getting LASIK, having their appendix removed, pulling wisdom teeth, getting cancer treatment...

which apparently wasn't God's will.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

God is a genocidal asshole. Jesus was more about love, equity, and forgiveness. If laws are meant to be a reflection of society's morals, you would think the laws introduced by Christian politicians would be more aligned with Jesus' teachings.

But, of course not. Why listen to your own religious teachings when you can cherry-pick examples out of the Bible to justify creating legislation that exerts control over women.

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

They wouldn’t even see this as sad. They lack empathy.

[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ask someone who actually supports this what they think. They'll say something super fucktarded and out of touch like "I don't see the problem. If people can't handle the consequences, they shouldn't be having sex"

[-] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 32 points 10 months ago

After her 10-hour shifts, Mayron visited Elayna as often as she could, sometimes sleeping in her car in the hospital’s parking garage.

Oof. And keep in mind that they had another infant at home.

[-] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 10 months ago

This was such a hard read, because the way the story was told always made me feel that with the right help, this family could get okay.

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

The right help was abortion, because we sure as fuck know that there aren't any fallbacks once born.

People know this and take the responsible choice of terminating the pregnancy, except the "small conservative government" needs uneducated slaves.

[-] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah this should not appear as a "abortion bad" comment.

[-] intelisense@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

The cruelty is the point.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Yup. Been saying this at about Shitty Christian Republicans for decades now.

It's fine, not fucking really, if you think your Shitty Christian beliefs says you want to ban abortion but fuck your hypocritical Shitty Christian ass when you don't provide the mother and the fucking child you forced her to have the money and support to raise them.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 10 months ago

This is such a sad tragedy.

[-] THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 10 points 10 months ago

Fuck the people who pass these laws can't they just do what they want based on their religeon and leave others the fuck alone

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