A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
www.propublica.org
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
  • Kaboom@reddthat.comOP
    232·
    1 year ago

    We’re not celebrating her death. We’re celebrating the massive statistical success of the abortion laws.

    I honestly just saw the article, went “just 3”? And posted it here. Turns out, abortion largely isn’t about saving lives, it’s using it as a psychopathic birth control.

    • yuri@pawb.social
      13·
      1 year ago

      A damn good trade if you ask me.

      What do you call this, praise? It’s certainly not respect.

        • FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee
          141·
          1 year ago

          Let me rephrase my previous post so I don’t offend the person calling the preventable deaths of the women “a good trade”.

          You are being ignorant if you believe an abortion ban actually prevents all abortions from happening.

          You are being ignorant if you think putting doctors in jail for trying to save their patients lives is a sustainable practice. Every time abortion laws regress, medical professionals leave the state and mortality rates increase.

          You are being callous to people who maybe you consider to be strangers or worthless people because they sought to have an abortion. But I think you would be singing a different tune if it was your partner, your sister, your mother, who had a miscarriage while the doctors stood by and said, “here take this pill and pray god saves you, because I’m not legally allowed to help you anymore.”

        • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          As someone wise said, birth control isn’t 100% effective. Best case is 99%, usually a bit less on average. Texas has >30 million people. Assuming 1% have sex once that’s 300,000. If they all use birth control that’s 3,000 potential babies they didn’t want. And I think we can agree these numbers are EXTREMELY conservative.

          Getting pregnant doesn’t mean you didn’t try to prevent it.