Also, piggybacking off of your comment, but if I hear one more Republican go "but there are late-term abortions!! women are changing their minds and deciding to kill their babies when they're bored with it!!"
No one, absolutely no one, is going through a pregnancy until the 7th, 8th month and then going "You know what? I don't want this anymore. I definitely just spent the past 8 months being wildly uncomfortable and in pain and stretching my body because I was just so indecisive!" Those abortions happen because of the risk to the mother, or because the baby is dying/dead/will not survive. Those are wanted children, children of parents who have already set up the nursery, already picked out clothing, maybe settled on a name.
To tell people who get third trimester abortions that they're monsters is not only ignorant of why people actually get late-term abortions, but its so fucking heartless and cruel to tell that to a grieving couple mourning the loss of their wanted child. Especially since many will conclude they did something wrong, when sometimes, pregnancies can just go wrong. That's the unfortunate reality of life.
But Republicans don't live in reality. They live in some fantasy world where people go through months of pregnancy and then just last minute go "never mind lmao abort".
This is my go-to reply to those "moderates" who want to have a "reasonable" time limit on abortions: instead of allowing the procedure up to the twelfth week, how about restricting it to the third trimester? Because if a woman chooses an abortion then, you know that something has gone tragically wrong.
They don't care. You can tell then until you are blue in the face and they will tell you to yours that both you and the baby should've suffered to term. I blocked a lot of "friends" after my 24 week abortion. Returning the maternity clothes was so fucking hard. "Is something wrong with them? No, so why are you returning them?" I just sobbed, "I'm not pregnant anymore." Thankfully my wonderful mother in law returned the baby clothes because I couldn't have done it. Its also not an easy procedure and they (at least at the place I went) treat you like shit. The male tech was the only one with any compassion at all. I also got yelled at by picketers. But sure Jan, people are deciding at 8 months that they would like to go through a traumatic experience because they changed their mind.
I remember speaking to a friend and they admitted they don't have a problem with abortions, but bans were necessary because women get them for fun. That they brag about how many abortions they have. Yes, the friend of mine is a woman. Completely divorced from reality. It legit makes me mad to think about.
That reminds me of this trump supporter (first term but probably still is) who said she voted for trump because she didn’t want Hillary being ruled by her menses. I looked at this friend straight in the face, saw that she was serious, laughed, and said Hillary has not bled for quite a few years now. Honest to goodness she had a pikachu face. It had not occurred to her in the least.
I think it’s because any woman who gets an abortion is a useless whore in their eyes. None of these people understand why and when abortions are sought, their brains put on the brakes long ago when they were taught that all women are Eve, thus evil, scheming sluts.
subjugation and vilification of women is a tried and true tactic of totalitarians, fascists, and dictators in general all over the world and isn’t anything new
Not to mention, there is no doctor in the country that would perform that abortion on a healthy near-term or full-term fetus. If they had to end the pregnancy, they would perform a c-section and deliver the child.
I had one NICU nurse tell me that considering everything that can go wrong during pregnancy it's a miracle that so many babies are actually born safe and healthy.
Just an FYI, any baby born by cesarean is an abortion by medicine. The term abortion is to end a pregnancy. So, fkn trump is correct when he says that women are having late-term abortion. He knows that medical deliveries are abortions. He lies and; 'says 'they just ya know, leave it..' Not many people outside of medical professionals that work with pregnancy know this.
I point out exactly the same thing, very often. No woman would put up with the nausea, hemorrhoids, feet swelling and complexion changes just to change her mind at the last minute. Thank you!
Side note-
I heard a shrink say that the reason newly pregnant women start infantilizing very early fertilized eggs/pregnancies by calling the microscopic fetus "a baby" is to try and "bond with the thing" so they get emotionally prepared for the suffering she will endure to bring the fetus to term.
Unfortunately infantilizing a fetus the size of a thumb nail plays right into the plans of the forced birthers. I wish the medical profession would use the term fetus until at least the 3rd trimester.
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u/ReallyAnxiousFish Aug 27 '24
Also, piggybacking off of your comment, but if I hear one more Republican go "but there are late-term abortions!! women are changing their minds and deciding to kill their babies when they're bored with it!!"
No one, absolutely no one, is going through a pregnancy until the 7th, 8th month and then going "You know what? I don't want this anymore. I definitely just spent the past 8 months being wildly uncomfortable and in pain and stretching my body because I was just so indecisive!" Those abortions happen because of the risk to the mother, or because the baby is dying/dead/will not survive. Those are wanted children, children of parents who have already set up the nursery, already picked out clothing, maybe settled on a name.
To tell people who get third trimester abortions that they're monsters is not only ignorant of why people actually get late-term abortions, but its so fucking heartless and cruel to tell that to a grieving couple mourning the loss of their wanted child. Especially since many will conclude they did something wrong, when sometimes, pregnancies can just go wrong. That's the unfortunate reality of life.
But Republicans don't live in reality. They live in some fantasy world where people go through months of pregnancy and then just last minute go "never mind lmao abort".