When Savita Halappanar died from sepsis after a Catholic hospital refused to provide an abortion as she was miscarrying, it resulted in outrage across Ireland and a Constitutional amendment that citizens traveled from different continents to vote for.
This one managed to fly under the radar for more than 2 years, as the Georgia authorities, the doctors and the hospital worked overtime to ensure that her story didn't reach the public. It happened TWO WEEKS after the Georgia abortion ban went into effect.
How many more women have died in the intervening two years? Twenty? Thirty? Fifty? Three hundred? A thousand? We don't know and we will never know.
In many ways, confidentiality laws are used by the powerful to ensure that the victimization of the powerless by their institutions can be hidden behind walls of secrecy. The "pro-life" activitists, and frankly, it makes me sick to use that phrase to describe them, have bought themselves a bunch of politicians who will ensure that women like Amber Thurman remain nameless.
And mark my words, they will turn this into an indictment of medical abortions, and will take no responsibility for the fact that the reason she died is because their laws terrorized doctors into allowing her to die because they were afraid to do their jobs.
I would even accept "pro-fetus" as less hypocritical, as long as they included in their self-identification the disclaimer: "We are pro-fetus and really couldn't give a damn about the life or health of the woman carrying the fetus."
Exactly. That's where the worst of the hypocrisy comes in. These right-wing "pro-lifers" have little to say about the care and protection and nurturing of the child once s/he has emerged from the womb. But they do have a lot to say about their lack of concern for life.
Two common examples:
Free school lunches? Ha! Better the doctor never cut the umbilical cord on you, Junior. I'm not paying for your lunches with my tax dollars. Get it?
And boy I sure hope that "Old Sparky" is going to snuff out the life of that convicted killer tonight. His victims and even his own family would have been better off if'n he'd never been born in the first place.
When Savita Halappanar died from sepsis after a Catholic hospital refused to provide an abortion as she was miscarrying, it resulted in outrage across Ireland and a Constitutional amendment that citizens traveled from different continents to vote for.
This one managed to fly under the radar for more than 2 years, as the Georgia authorities, the doctors and the hospital worked overtime to ensure that her story didn't reach the public. It happened TWO WEEKS after the Georgia abortion ban went into effect.
How many more women have died in the intervening two years? Twenty? Thirty? Fifty? Three hundred? A thousand? We don't know and we will never know.
In many ways, confidentiality laws are used by the powerful to ensure that the victimization of the powerless by their institutions can be hidden behind walls of secrecy. The "pro-life" activitists, and frankly, it makes me sick to use that phrase to describe them, have bought themselves a bunch of politicians who will ensure that women like Amber Thurman remain nameless.
And mark my words, they will turn this into an indictment of medical abortions, and will take no responsibility for the fact that the reason she died is because their laws terrorized doctors into allowing her to die because they were afraid to do their jobs.
It's disgusting.
They aren't "pro-life" (as both Charlie Sykes - before he left - and JVL pointed out, much to their credit); they're anti-abortion.
I would even accept "pro-fetus" as less hypocritical, as long as they included in their self-identification the disclaimer: "We are pro-fetus and really couldn't give a damn about the life or health of the woman carrying the fetus."
Amen. Or the fetus, once it's no longer a fetus (i.e., born)!
Exactly. That's where the worst of the hypocrisy comes in. These right-wing "pro-lifers" have little to say about the care and protection and nurturing of the child once s/he has emerged from the womb. But they do have a lot to say about their lack of concern for life.
Two common examples:
Free school lunches? Ha! Better the doctor never cut the umbilical cord on you, Junior. I'm not paying for your lunches with my tax dollars. Get it?
And boy I sure hope that "Old Sparky" is going to snuff out the life of that convicted killer tonight. His victims and even his own family would have been better off if'n he'd never been born in the first place.