After being turned away from 3 hospitals despite no fetal heartbeat Ryan found his wife unconscious and bleeding on the floor.
Women are being tortured by the Republican Party’s barbaric abortion bans.
This is Texas ya'll... again.
This cannot continue. Compassion & reason must eventually prevail.
@ATXJane @Maude This needs to be shown up as a moral choice. This is the framing on the right -- no matter what, forced birth is a foregone moral conclusion.
So it needs to be made increasingly obvious: their whole sense of morality has derailed.
Of course, yes, it would be great if they also gained a sense of compassion and reason (as well as a modicum of humility) along the way. But that's secondary to being clear and consistent about their moral deficiency.
@ATXJane @Maude Weaponised legislation is the core earmark of the current international conservative movement. These efforts are corrupting their entire countries' legal systems to accompish small-minded, unsustainable, and ultimately easily-reversed goals.
It is a kind of cival war already in action.
I believe that it deserves to be seen as that, and addressed with that kind of political rhetoric.
Because while it's in effect, its consequences are both real and horrific.
💯 Weaponizing legislation is horrific. It highlights that old distinction between spirit of the law & letter of the law.
@sumpnlikefaith @Maude
I agree.
I am increasingly frustrated about how pregnancy has become a punishment for being female. I’m starting to think that unless men/sperm donors share some of that burden, women will continue to be cruelly targeted and made to suffer for it.
How that might work, I don’t know, but it increasingly feels like the law is being used to torture women who are unfortunate enough to find their empowerment missing.
Women are either equal or they are not.