Privileged people do get an exception - they can afford to fly to another state for an abortion.
People like this think they’re part of the in group because they’re white or christian, but the only war is class war. To our rulers we’re all the enemy.
My fucking Trumpy brother in law has this attitude. He lives in the south, votes for Trump, and has a wife, two daughters, and a son. His wife has had a couple of complicated pregnancies that, had they happened now in the place they currently live, could well have resulted in her death. His attitude when asked ‘what if one of your daughters gets raped?’ is to say he can just fly her somewhere else to get an abortion, because he has money. Fuck you, dude.
These are people who don’t want rights, they want privileges. They don’t want equality, they want hierarchy. They can’t say “gimme gimme”, they say “take America back”.
From who? Americans. They want to take what you have. Now that Republicans control the Federal Government they will start to take from each other.
This literally happened during the first Trump administration. Does no Trump supporter remember how they all fought for attention and sucked so badly?
I remember the hilarious part where they all campaigned for years on “repealing Obamacare”. Then they had House and Senate majorities + the Presidency, and guess what didn’t get repealed?
It was like that silly video where a dog is barking viciously at another dog, looks super serious and mean, and then the barrier between them is removed and they both act real cool immediately. Then, barrier back in, vicious barking again…
There’s a reason they’re so threatened by words like equity and inclusion. When the culture of your ancestors was based on exclusionary hierarchies it can be very hard to embrace all people as equal, even if that is a fabled part of the American ethos (on paper, not in practice).
Yeah, if you can get a MAGAt to be honest with you, at some point, the core of what they want comes down to, “I support Trump because I want people who are different than me to have more misery in their life than I do.”
If that means taking on some extra misery themselves, be so be it, as long as it’s even worse for them.
It’s a sad type of cruelty.
Many states put a bounty on anyone found to be helping someone travel out of state to get an abortion.
States specifically target liberal groups for harassment and penalty. Conservative physicians will be ignored.
The point of these witch hunts is to torment opposition groups.
I love that they referred her to an anti-abortion crisis center, because there’s a 99% chance they’ll just tell her the same “pro-life” garbage she’s been spewing and send her ass home.
Remember, God makes no mistakes 🤗
I really do hate myself for a lack of sympathy in this situation, but these people need to experience what they’re doing to everyone else.
What’s sad is that people who agree with her won’t see the threat to her life as a valid reason either. They don’t know her so they don’t care for her. They’ll lump her in with the people they torment outside of Planned Parenthood regularly.
Just another woman who spread her legs and is too cowardly to accept the will of god.
I’ll be honest, I’m burned out. I need a break from morons and their stories. I really do.
I have accepted that two things can be trust at once: I can be sad for her and amused at the leopard eating her face. I have no problem containing both of those emotions at the same time without hating myself one ounce.
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She is the leopard eating her face. I see no reason to be sad. She is dying for her beliefs, a martyr.
It wasn’t part of her plan but (her) God chose her for this. We should she be happy. She should be happy. This is (her) God’s will.
I’ve given up on being sympathetic for people who actively try to put these things in place. Like, I’m just jaded now. You voted for this. Congratulations, if this is fatal for your stupid decisions, that’s on you. I’m sympathetic to the people with brains who knew this would happen, those people get my sympathy and caring.
I felt similar about people asking for the vaccine right before they went on the ventilator. Something like 3m people in the US died from Covid.
I’ll be honest, I’m burned out. I need a break from morons and their stories. I really do.
You need to stop going out of your way to doomscroll on social media, then. It’s ultimately entirely in your power to not be exposed to them.
I’m being serious. It’s not good for you–social media makes it extremely easy to be exposed to negativity 24/7 if you’re looking for it, since you’re 1 person in a world of over 8 billion. You don’t have to get even close to 1% of the people being assholes, for this to be not only possible, but trivially easy.
The human psyche is literally not designed to withstand the kind of barrage technology has made possible. Please do not feel guilty about giving yourself a break at times, to say the very least.
Thanks for this (I’m not the op). While I tend to agree that doomscrolling doesn’t help my mental health, I’m not sure how to square burying my head in the sand vs not paying attention to the crazy shit going on.
I don’t expect an answer or anything, just venting. I feel powerless and my taxes are apparently going to fund a concentration camp.
Don’t worry, they’re all gonna feel the pain when the plans for tariffs, deportations, and budget cuts are implemented and everything costs more (so much is imported and no Americans are going to pick crops) and everyone has less money (they’re looking at benefits, VA, and federal employment cuts). Maybe they’ll cry He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting. but my hope is they learn who to never elect again at all levels of government.
It’s going to be a rough 2 years until the midterms when we flip one of the chambers of Congress and stop any more insanity, but we’ll survive. And if we do what we can, we’ll get back what’s ours and then some in 4 years.
For what it’s worth, this particular case happened 2 years ago, in Missouri:
From the article:
She was already at "risks of maternal thrombosis given her history of (deep vein thrombosis during a COVID-19 infection)
Why do I picture this lady as an anti-vaxxer & anti-masker?
80% white. 40% with a high school education or less.
In 2022, over 100 anti-vaccination protesters rallied at the state Capitol against health director Donald Kauerauf’s confirmation, despite his opposition to mask and vaccine mandates. Protesters displayed signs reading “God-given natural immunity” and “We’re not guinea pigs.”
In 2024, House Bill 1424 was introduced to prohibit COVID-19 vaccination requirements for transportation access. Missouri Senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt co-sponsored federal legislation to ban mask mandates through 2024.
The state as a whole gives a certain vibe…
Nutpicking. For every “Haha! Instant Karma! Suck it, idiots!” front page circle jerk, a thousand conservatives will get abortions under the table without a problem.
You’ve got to go two years back on this shit because its ultimately the exception, not the rule.
The only moral abortion is MY abortion!
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