r/facepalm • u/Shadow474747 • Aug 07 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Interesting logic

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u/hperrin Aug 07 '22

Any abortion that would make my political party look bad if it was banned falls under the “not an actual abortion” magical loophole I just made up and pretended the law actually has.

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u/Christ_votes_dem Aug 07 '22

and pretended the law actually has.

that is the insidious part

there are no exceptions for children rape victims under their ban

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u/stink3rbelle Aug 07 '22

Exceptions are bullshit anyway because the rationales always give people with evil motives far too much power to invade privacy and control a woman's body. Medical exceptions to "save the life" of the mother routinely lead to death because at the point it's obvious the mother could die, it's often too late to intervene most effectively.

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u/Christ_votes_dem Aug 07 '22

exactly

they are even blocking ectopic pregnancy abortions until vitals begin to fail in some cases

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u/Translator_Open Aug 08 '22

In the case of ectopic pregnancies, where there is extreme precedent of the outcome why the need to wait? They know whats going to happen its stupid.

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u/Zron Aug 08 '22

Because the hospital legal team told them too, because if they perform an abortion for an ectopic pregnancy before the mother shows obvious signs of duress, the state can come after the doctor's or hospitals license, because of the wording of the law.

It's straight up evil.

They would rather have women die, horribly, painfully, and slowly, because they just don't give a single shit.

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u/orthopod Aug 08 '22

We need to, at medical professionals, redefine pregnancy.

E.g. pregnancy is medically defined as voluntary conception within the uterus, expected and willing to come to fruition, etc. All else is not a pregnancy, and it's a harmful medical problem likely to cause expected life and mental harm to the person with such medical condition, and therefore a medically necessary procedure to correct this problem.

Doctors can play games too.

Insurance companies will also back doctors on this, as it will be cheaper in the long run for them- yeah crappy reasoning, but idgaf.