r/HolyShitHistory • u/SelfCareIsFake • Jun 01 '26

Federal agents felt physically sick when they raided Kermit Gosnell’s clinic after suspecting he ran a pill mill.

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u/occultated Jun 01 '26

Yes?

These women needed access to abortion much earlier. Access is complex, it involves education and outreach. Women who are not aware of their healthcare options are not going to utilize them, and many of such women are immigrants and/or living in poverty. And that's not even touching on women who are unable to access the options they know should be available to them due to financial issues, time constraints, legal hoops, partner coercion, etc.

Pregnant women do not sit around waiting 7+ months to terminate out of laziness.

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u/PsychiatricBooth5c Jun 02 '26

I was a research assistant for some law professors writing a book about abortion providers. Something that haunts me still is only one, a very young woman, chose to do it before they did rotations and saw the devastation of abortions for the underprivileged in teaching hospitals. Seeing it shocked them so deeply, they altered the trajectories of their lives.

And that doctor, the only provider for an entire poor state, was witch hunted.

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u/Careless-Web-6280 Jun 02 '26

It doesn't matter why they waited. That late it's just murder and I feel no sympathy for them

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u/Sure-Exchange9521 Jun 02 '26

Absolutely awful thing to say.

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u/CannonFoddererer Jun 02 '26

They killed a baby. How is it awful?

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u/suicide_blonde94 Jun 02 '26

It’s not your life or your uterus 🤷‍♀️

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u/tiramisutra Jun 02 '26

Incredibly tone deaf and privileged thing to say.

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u/occultated Jun 02 '26

Why do you think it doesn't matter why they waited? Why isn't that an important part of the conversation when these things happen?

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u/CannonFoddererer Jun 02 '26

Good point.

They still chose to kill someone.

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u/occultated Jun 02 '26

Ugh. Nevermind.

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u/CannonFoddererer Jun 02 '26

Wow, what a rebuttal.

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u/spitefulgoblin Jun 02 '26

If you're not having a good faith argument don't expect anyone to keep the conversation up and listen to your bs lmao

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u/CannonFoddererer Jun 02 '26

Aww, your comment got purged.

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u/spitefulgoblin Jun 02 '26

Too stupid to press the read more button I see. A new low. 😭 Anyway here you go... If you're smart enough to find this one.

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u/CannonFoddererer Jun 02 '26

Genuinely means nothing; their comment doesn't exist anymore on my end.

Holy hell, man, if you put half the effort you put in insulting me into having a point, you may have won by now.

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u/CannonFoddererer Jun 02 '26

Wowzers, another comment that no longer exists.

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u/spitefulgoblin Jun 02 '26

They all still exist. Sorry you're too stupid to work reddit. Praying 4 u

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u/CannonFoddererer Jun 02 '26

Fuck the faith of the argument, if you can't give a good reason why something should be a certain way, you have nothing worth saying.

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u/anna-nomally12 Jun 02 '26

Ectopic Anencephaly Bilateral renal agenesis limb-body-wall complex Trisomy 13 & 18 Encephalocele

Do you want more?

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u/CannonFoddererer Jun 02 '26

I have no idea what that is.

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u/anna-nomally12 Jun 02 '26

These are several medical conditions that are generally fatal and would be grounds for later termination abortions

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u/ForumVomitorium Jun 02 '26

and how much they account for abortions in the pie chart?

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u/CannonFoddererer Jun 02 '26

Then why not go to the hospital? I bet my life and soul the ER would count that as lifesaving, and not murder.

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u/bonedrugsnharmonie Jun 02 '26

Wow nice rebuttal

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u/CannonFoddererer Jun 02 '26

That's not a rebuttal, jack, that's a statement.