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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 196 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Was going to say...

A judge agreed with her, and the June ticket was dismissed.

Still, it is annoying that state and municipal officers can drag you to court in your pregnant condition to prove what the legislature has already decided.

Almost as though the police exist to harass and obstruct the rights of citizens, rather than to serve and protect them.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago

The judge only agreed because if they denied, their stupid abortion laws would have to be revisited.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Technically it wasn't the police's job to make that kind of interpretation but after the precedent had been set they should apply the court's decision

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it wasn’t the police’s job to make that kind of interpretation

This was the second ticket she'd had dismissed. The courts had already made the interpretation. Cops simply weren't abiding by it.

[–] Jolteon 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Hey, at least they're consistent. Also, I can't think of anybody who wants abortion at 34 weeks.

[–] Honytawk 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

God does, they create miscarriages all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

But God doesn't kill people /s

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You've never heard of a still born birth?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Who wants a still born birth?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Not many people. But under the current laws around abortion, hospital administrators are too afraid of legal liability to remove a dead baby from the mother.

Case in point

More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms were turned away or negligently treated since 2022, an Associated Press analysis of federal hospital investigations found.

Two women — one in Florida and one in Texas — were left to miscarry in public restrooms. In Arkansas, a woman went into septic shock and her fetus died after an emergency room sent her home. At least four other women with ectopic pregnancies had trouble getting treatment, including one in California who needed a blood transfusion after she sat for nine hours in an emergency waiting room.

Hospital staff are being told not to treat pregnant women, entirely, because any form of treatment might be flagged as "aiding in an abortion" by the state.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Your initial response read to me that there were folks wishing for still borns.

But yeah the stories are typically horrifying, like the one mother in Texas who had the means to flee out of state to get the healthcare she needed.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago

I like how she admitted she didn't think of the political ramifications and was just working the exploit she'd been given XD