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Love it when people act like proving “rape or incest” exceptions for abortion are even possible, lmao

Quick, prove you were raped so you can access an abortion! How? I don’t know! Maybe you’ll have to get a rape test done at the hospital and prove you have sufficient bruising? Maybe it’ll require filing charges? Maybe it’ll require a full ass criminal trial which is gonna take longer than 9 months, lol.

Prove you were a victim of incest! How? I don’t know, because if you’re a victim of incest you might very well be a young child who doesn’t have the emotional strength and knowledge to even describe the abuse that’s happening to you, let alone advocate for your rights. And even if you are an adult, I dare you to go in front of a judge and detail the sexual abuse from you brother/father/uncle and come out of that untraumatised, all to get permission to have access to abortion. Make sure you get the courage up in just a few weeks!

What about threats to life of the mother exceptions? Quick! What’s the line you draw there? If a mother has extremely high blood pressure and diabetes and is at risk of death early enough in the pregnancy, is that enough for a termination? What about if the mother has an ectopic pregnancy? Or do we have to wait until the mother is suffering from sepsis and shock, blood poisoning maybe? Do mental health issues ever factor in?

It is literally impossible to place such restrictions on abortion that actually work, that are feasible and acceptable to those that would otherwise ban abortions outright.

Abortion on demand is the only answer.

It’s been 2 years. Roe has fallen. And in states where abortion is only legal in cases of rape or incest or protect mother’s life, women can still prove their case fits within the law, right?!

But in the months since the court’s decision, very few exceptions to these new abortion bans have been granted, a New York Times review of available state data and interviews with dozens of physicians, advocates and lawmakers revealed.

Instead, those with means are traveling to states where abortion is still broadly legal or are obtaining abortion pills at home because the requirements to qualify for exceptions are too steep. Doctors and hospitals are turning away patients, saying that ambiguous laws and the threat of criminal penalties make them unwilling to test the rules.

“Having the legal right on the books to get an abortion and getting one in practice are two distinctly different things,” said Laurie Bertram Roberts, the executive director of the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund, a group that supports abortion rights.

An example of that disconnect is in Louisiana, which has exceptions for protecting the life or health of the patient and for deadly birth defects, and has reported zero abortions since its ban took effect. Mississippi, with exceptions for rape and protecting the life of the patient, has reported no more than two. Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri and Texas have exceptions for protecting a patient’s life or health and have reported similarly low abortion figures.

Imagine there being no women whatsoever in the entire state of Louisiana who needed an abortion due to rape, incest, or to save the mothers life in an entire year.

Not a single one.

I made this original post back in 2021. It's now been 3 years.

Two women are found to have died due to lack of Abortion care in Georgia alone, Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller. Both were already mothers.

Women are routinely being sent out of their states by hospitals because they're dying, but their fetuses still have heartbeats. Women like Nicole Miller, who was airlifted out of Idaho to get an abortion after she began hemorrhaging blood at 20 weeks. Her doctor told her he could not risk his career, even to save her life.

Women are being denied abortions even though their fetuses have almost no chance of surviving outside of the womb due to genetic defects or major health issues. Women like Kate Cox, who pled publicly for help getting an abortion in Texas after finding out her fetus was nonviable. She had already gotten permission from a Texas judge, but the attorney general Ken Paxton publicly threatened to prosecute any doctor or hospital who completed the procedure in the state.

Women are being sued by men for legally obtaining abortions out of state. Amy Carpenter, Jackie Noyola, and Aracely Garcia were all sued for helping a female friend obtain abortion pills while she was divorcing her husband.

Women are being charged with abusing a corpse for having miscarriages at home. Brittany Watts went to an Ohio hospital twice for abortion care and was told by the hospital her fetus had died. But after spending hours waiting for care the hospital wouldn't provide, she went home and miscarried. The hospital alerted the police, and she was charged with abusing a corpse.

And all of this has led to an uptick of violence against women as well. Gabriella Gonzalez was shot by her boyfriend after he learned she had an abortion. She was 26. Kaylin Feingo was shot by her boyfriend after refusing to have an abortion. She was only 19.

Remember these women.

It is now May 2025, Trump is back in office, and a woman has now been kept on life support for over 3 months because she was 9 weeks pregnant when declared brain dead.

Praying for peace for Adriana Smith and her family, and shame on every person who revokes abortion rights to “protect life”.

miseria-fortes-viros

ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful

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my brother in christ frankenstein is the title of the book

warlockofagnesi

COUNTERPOINT

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well i can’t argue with that one

Ah yes, Mary Shelley’s monster.

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no mary shelley is the name of the monster not the doctor

common misconception! mary shelley's monster was actually lord byron

Saw some “budget guru” claim that filing bankruptcies on student loans has a 90% success rate, ma’am why are you fucking lying to these people?

dyatlovpassingprivilege

hunk of parmesan: i'm getting so small! 😁 keep going! i wonder if i can get even smaller 😯

microplane, getting more and more delirious with lust as my knuckles get closer to it: he's ruight

But frankly I don’t think Janet Mills knew all this about Platner, because I don’t live in a world where politically ambitious women sit on dirt on their opponents without sharing it for the world to stay in their races.

It’s not surprising that a woman would go to the press/be contacted by the NYT before going to a governor or a political opponent.

If I had dirt on, idk, Whitmer’s political opponents, I would have told the Detroit Free Press first, not Whitmer herself.

When someone says “holy shit he hurt you, you need to tell someone” the first person you formally tell is probably a cop, and if the cops do nothing, then it’s the press.

If John James had assaulted me I would never have thought to tell Mallory McMorrow or Elisa Slotkin that??

And frankly I don’t think the same politicians who took down Biden would have just sat on this kind of info if they had it before this time. I think Dems are a little bit more cutthroat than that.

They flew the dude out to DC to question him. I don’t think you do that when you believe you already have the facts in front of you and are confident in your assessment of a person’s character.

no and i can take it further

The thing about populism is that throughout history and across cultures, misogyny is and always has been very popular, including among other women. I simply don't trust the masses to advocate for my interests and not throw me under the bus, and other women shouldn't either.

But frankly I don’t think Janet Mills knew all this about Platner, because I don’t live in a world where politically ambitious women sit on dirt on their opponents without sharing it for the world to stay in their races.

It’s not surprising that a woman would go to the press/be contacted by the NYT before going to a governor or a political opponent.

If I had dirt on, idk, Whitmer’s political opponents, I would have told the Detroit Free Press first, not Whitmer herself.

When someone says “holy shit he hurt you, you need to tell someone” the first person you formally tell is probably a cop, and if the cops do nothing, then it’s the press.

If John James had assaulted me I would never have thought to tell Mallory McMorrow or Elisa Slotkin that??

But frankly I don’t think Janet Mills knew all this about Platner, because I don’t live in a world where politically ambitious women sit on dirt on their opponents without sharing it for the world to stay in their races.

It’s not surprising that a woman would go to the press/be contacted by the NYT before going to a governor or a political opponent.

If I had dirt on, idk, Whitmer’s political opponents, I would have told the Detroit Free Press first, not Whitmer herself.

1) I’m gonna hold off on a second to see if it’s true that she’s some kind of Republican operative before jumping on the conspiracy theorist train, and

2) Not what happened with Al Franken. If you read his books before his allegations surfaced (like I did), he’d already admitted to being a kissy touchy guy and being told by his own staff that you can’t be acting like that, so the allegations against him are perfectly in line with his own stated behavior. Having a different ~*internal perspective*~ on the events that happened doesn’t mean they didn’t happen. Don’t be rubbing on your staffers.

I'm going to share a gift link to the article because the characterization of the accusations here is so misleading it would be shocking if it wasn't coming from Occupy Democrats.

I would also encourage people to read Fifeld's own account of the process of working with the Times, the assurances she was given, the evidence she provided that was not ultimately included in the article, and other details that, if true, make this whole endeavor look like as @brainstatic put it, a "soft catch and kill" operation.

Crucially, it seems like other accusers were interviewed but left out of the final piece, including women accusing Platner of sexual assault.

I encourage you to read the whole thing, but I since this is the piss on the poor site I will in fact pull out the salient quotes related to the parts referred to in the screenshotted post:

Mr. Platner could be rough with her, Ms. Fifield said, particularly when they were drinking, leaving her shaken and sometimes afraid. In the interviews, Ms. Fifield grappled with how to process her experiences. She was quick to note that he “never hit me, he never punched me.” But she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car. During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was “calm.” Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning.

Additionally:

Ms. Fifield also recalled that Mr. Platner’s displays of weaponry and discussions of violence sometimes left her uneasy. She said he kept an AR-15 lying around his apartment on Capitol Hill, and would sharpen an ax — a relic from his time working on the Appalachian Trail before he enlisted in the Marines — while watching television. He had what she described as a “warrior ethos” and would fantasize about killing people he deemed a threat, she said. She said he told her that rape was about power. It was something that stuck with her through the years, Ms. Fifield said. “He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them,” she recalled, saying that he added that it would not be in “a sexual way, not in a gay way.” “He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant,” she said. Asked about those remarks, a Platner campaign official did not dispute them.

And you know, just to put a fine point on it:

In a private chat group last summer, months before Mr. Platner acknowledged the tattoo himself, Ms. Fifield told friends that her ex-boyfriend-turned-Senate candidate “has a Nazi tattoo on his chest.” “It’s a Totenkopf,” she told them on Aug. 20, according to a screenshot she shared with The Times. “An actual one.”

I'm just going to say it - body hair (and beauty standards in general) is truly one of the final frontiers of women's issues in the West. Too many women just love their gilded cage too much. It shocks me how virulently women will defend it. I barely open my mouth and the "well I like how it feels. it just makes me feel cleaner. sensory issues. I do it for me. feminism is about choosing (to conform)." brigade come rushing in by the dozens.

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

You genuinely can't even point out that hairlessness is a man-made standard without women losing their shit and acting like they are totally immune to propaganda they've been exposed to from birth. I'm so tired.

The Ikea biphobia couch is the funniest thing that's ever happened. We found it gang. Nothing will ever top it in terms of being funny.

The what???

The Ikea biphobia couch.

1) I’m gonna hold off on a second to see if it’s true that she’s some kind of Republican operative before jumping on the conspiracy theorist train, and

2) Not what happened with Al Franken. If you read his books before his allegations surfaced (like I did), he’d already admitted to being a kissy touchy guy and being told by his own staff that you can’t be acting like that, so the allegations against him are perfectly in line with his own stated behavior. Having a different ~*internal perspective*~ on the events that happened doesn’t mean they didn’t happen. Don’t be rubbing on your staffers.

Lyndon B Johnson used to piss on people while president of the United States. Look at everything coming out about Cesar Chavez.

Is it really so shocking that men keep doing men shit while running for office on a wave of economic populism? Does it have to be a conspiracy theory or a story plant?

He’s a guy.

At this point, if a woman said Barack Obama was rubbing her shoulders and hitting on her and sexually harassing her I’d be like “yep, divorce his ass Michelle.”

Men do this shit all the fucking time. Literally all the time.

it gets to a point that is just weirder if they didn't fuck

you did all this and it was not even because you wanted to bang him? weirdo

what

1) I’m gonna hold off on a second to see if it’s true that she’s some kind of Republican operative before jumping on the conspiracy theorist train, and

2) Not what happened with Al Franken. If you read his books before his allegations surfaced (like I did), he’d already admitted to being a kissy touchy guy and being told by his own staff that you can’t be acting like that, so the allegations against him are perfectly in line with his own stated behavior. Having a different ~*internal perspective*~ on the events that happened doesn’t mean they didn’t happen. Don’t be rubbing on your staffers.

Lyndon B Johnson used to piss on people while president of the United States. Look at everything coming out about Cesar Chavez.

Is it really so shocking that men keep doing men shit while running for office on a wave of economic populism? Does it have to be a conspiracy theory or a story plant?

He’s a guy.

1) I’m gonna hold off on a second to see if it’s true that she’s some kind of Republican operative before jumping on the conspiracy theorist train, and

2) Not what happened with Al Franken. If you read his books before his allegations surfaced (like I did), he’d already admitted to being a kissy touchy guy and being told by his own staff that you can’t be acting like that, so the allegations against him are perfectly in line with his own stated behavior. Having a different ~*internal perspective*~ on the events that happened doesn’t mean they didn’t happen. Don’t be rubbing on your staffers.

Lyndon B Johnson used to piss on people while president of the United States. Look at everything coming out about Cesar Chavez.

Is it really so shocking that men keep doing men shit while running for office on a wave of economic populism? Does it have to be a conspiracy theory or a story plant?

He’s a guy.

1) I’m gonna hold off on a second to see if it’s true that she’s some kind of Republican operative before jumping on the conspiracy theorist train, and

2) Not what happened with Al Franken. If you read his books before his allegations surfaced (like I did), he’d already admitted to being a kissy touchy guy and being told by his own staff that you can’t be acting like that, so the allegations against him are perfectly in line with his own stated behavior. Having a different ~*internal perspective*~ on the events that happened doesn’t mean they didn’t happen. Don’t be rubbing on your staffers.

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