Tennessee Lobbyists Oppose New Lifesaving Exceptions In Abortion Ban

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Death Cult.

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Fetus fetishists.

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These people are fucking ghouls is what they are. FFS what is wrong with Tennessee? If you arrive at an ER already bleeding out, your chances – whether you receive an abortion or not – are not good. Stipulating that doctors can’t intervene until there’s a 50-50 chance you die anyway is, well, insane.

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Some pregnancy complications “work themselves out,” Will Brewer, who represents the local affiliate of the anti-abortion organization National Right to Life, told a majority-male panel of lawmakers Feb. 14. When faced with a patient’s high-risk condition, doctors should be required to “pause and wait this out and see how it goes.”

Disgusting.

This is like saying a patient showing up to the ER with the signs of a heart attack may just be experiencing a panic attack, so we should just wait it out and see.

That’s not how medicine is done. Implementing this law will kill pregnant women in Tennessee, full stop.

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Proving once again that cruelty is the point.

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Taliban in different robes

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We already have seen how this plays out, women will come in with zero chance of saving the fetus must wait until it almost kills them before they can get help.

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While TN has the most restrictive abortion ban I was glad to see that there are Republican lawmakers on this committee that have actually been through medical school, as opposed to the lobbyist from TN Right to Life.
Somehow there has to be a way to put Will Brewer, Right to Life lobbyist, and AK Rep. Eastman in room to discuss the state’s role in saving money or lives.

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It is Way past time for these “legislators” preachers, know-nothing religious assholes to STOP practicing medicine without a license!

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Right wing politicians making medical decisions. What could go wrong? Disgraceful!

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This is nothing but thuggish misogyny.

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BLEEDING OUT? I have to believe this guy does not have a medical license himself.

Wait until a white evangelical woman dies from a miscarriage. Just you wait. (For a ‘perfect’ example let her be BLONDE.)

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That’s the whole point. It’s designed to stop doctors intervening because Jebus. You’re not going to get criminally prosecuted for watching your patient die, but if you did something, you’d potentially lose you career and be financially ruined.

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It’s all OK, it’s God’s will that the slut died as punishment for having sex. Seriously, that won’t change any of these Jebus freaks minds about it.

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Evergreen.

“They tell you that there’s a war on women. There is no war on women. There may be a war on what’s inside of women, but there is no war on women in this country.”
— Death Cult Dr. “Sleepy” Ben Carson

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Physicians and lawyers, in my experience, tend not to like each other. Back in the '70s when I was just starting out, a woman at our hospital was carrying a fetus that would be born with little more than a brain stem. It would die following its birth. The argument on one side was that the baby must be birthed, but could then be “exposed” and allowed to die. The other side said it would be cruel to do that, better to terminate the pregnancy before the baby could experience any sort of suffering. The parents had no voice. The OBGYN was overruled. The woman gave birth and the baby died. All this in the days when the discipline of bioethics was just beginning to take shape. Subsequently, I’ve known a few physicians who’ve earned both medical and law degrees, and studied bioethics in order to function as expert witnesses in cases. That said, I recall the words of an attorney who was present in the discussion of the case I mentioned above. “You will curse the day,” he said, “that you allow attorneys to be involved in these sorts of decisions.” And here we are.

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Since they don’t allow doctors to train in abortion procedures, the decision will soon be moot. No staff available for the needed treatment.

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Incredibly, I think this is the goal. As long as those mothers have excess skin melanin or some "z"s in their surnames.

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Which is more monstrous: to offer no exceptions and therefore no possibility of calmer heads prevailing through exercise of sound judgement? Or to sanctify the illegitimate judgements that all rightists want to pass against all women, by establishing a gauntlet of terms and conditions a woman must satisfy to earn sovereignty over her internal organs?

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