Restrictions on abortions in Texas are interfering with the ability of women to get essential treatment for miscarriages. SB4, a Texas law passed last year, restricts “drug-induced abortion procedures, providers, and facilities.” The law lists “several medications as abortion-inducing drugs and largely bars their use for abortion after the seventh week of pregnancy.” But two of the banned drugs, misoprostol and mifepristone, “are the only drugs recommended in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidelines for treating a patient after an early pregnancy loss.”
It boggles the mind how these repressive republican a-holes who profess to believe in "small government" want to reach into lives and bedrooms with their medieval control issues.
The same folks who think guns everywhere for everyone without limit are fine. Who think corruption in government by way of Citizen's United in A-OK.
Those dishonorable folk who claim elections were stolen while all indications indicate that the accusers and the guilty are one and the same.
My sincere desire is for thinking citizens to vote like our lives depend upon it because in my opinion, they do. No vanity candidates please. Remember Jill Stein?
What a Trojan Horse she was. Hey, is she still in Russia?
This will spread like a bad infection. Not unlike those that some women suffer after miscarriages without the proper aftercare, whether by D&C's or medications which are/were standard procedure. Women who unfortunately suffer repeated miscarriages (this happens...) will be highly suspect. For God's sake.
Another example of laws designed to and actually creating confusion surrounding individual choice. When the is confusion, then there is a space in that chaos for the authoritarians to decide that they alone can interpret the laws and regulations. This, of course leads to the breakdown of community and commerce. In such circumstances the preferred class, in this case Christian fundamentalists and QAnon believers, get not only preferential treatment, but the power to punish their opponents outside legal processes and with impunity. The difference between Putin and Abbot is very narrow.
So glad that Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and the rest of the Democratic establishment chose not to codify Roe in 2009 when they had a supermajority in the Senate and a majority in the House. The GOP would have been unable to stop them.
Meanwhile, Pelosi and Pharma Jim Clyburn spent the week after the SCOTUS leak campaigning for anti-choice DINO Cuellar so he wouldn't get beat by Cisneros, someone who actually supports the policies that Biden pretends to support.
I try not to use the word 'hate' but I absolutely HATE these evil republican politicians who are trying to ban abortion no matter what. I'd argue that it's far worse to force these women to have these babies when they don't have the means to support a family. Then these same republicans who claim to be pro-life will vote against every bill brought to the floor to help these struggling single mothers. Then that child grows up in an unstable home with a struggling mother and they see nothing wrong with that. These people are incredibly evil and I don't know why every democratic politician doesn't call this out DAILY. They are not pro-life, they are pro-birth and then their commitment to that child ends immediately. Republicans are the worst people in America.
I’d think it would be illegal for a pharmacists to refuse to fill a doctors prescription! They may not believe the woman but this is info coming from a medical professional about a diagnosed condition that requires medication.
Why tf is the Walgreens pharmacist being allowed to disregard a doctors official diagnosis & request? Why are they trying to judge whether the woman is lying when it’s a legal prescription?
Republicans are hellbent on controlling & punishing women.
The [lunatic] was ultimately told by [the government] that they had “talked to [voters] and the [victims], and have decided not to [allow you to buy a gun]” since they could not prove that [the lunatic] “isn’t using [the death dealing device] for [a mass shooting].”
It is tremendously disturbing to me that the cult pathology of white misogyny and Christian Nationalism has taken over regions of the United States; that elected officials, in states like Texas, no longer support the rule of law, nor the rights of the people. Of course people must reach beyond the behemoth FDA for support and protection from the hate, the ignorance, the cruelty.
“They’re [Corporations] not the gate-keepers of healthcare.” But, sadly, they think they are and because the corporations control the purse strings, this is only going to get worse. I’m so glad that my adult daughter is no longer living in Texas.
The real life stories with detailed examples have power to reach people who need more genuine information. Have you all heard Senator Gary Peter's address to the Senate (several years ago) in which he describes how his former wife was in danger of dying [her water had broken in the 5th month, and the fetus was no longer viable]? Out of religious "beliefs" her doctor wouldn't perform the necessary (abortion inducing) D&C to save her life! He called another doctor who was a friend who arranged for her to get the lifesaving treatment at his hospital. That was in 1980 or therabouts. On another level, or from another perspective, George Carlin brilliantly excoriates this preference for "the unborn" over the living. We need humor to have perspective about our Human Condition.
I’m a little disappointed in the reporting here, using anecdotal information from a twitter feed or other publications’ use of anecdotal info. The law is obviously onerous, and I’m curious how enforcement will play out. Pharmacies and pharmacists must perform due diligence, but with a diagnosis from a physician confirmed, their duty is done. I expect the corporate overlords will ultimately reach that conclusion, and perhaps this publication and others cited will give a push in that direction. Any liability I think ultimately lies with the physician prescriber, and it’s another hoop for them to jump through on top of the many that insurance providers subject them to.
That said, I agree with many comments that this law is another overstep into the privacy of women’s healthcare from a Republican legislature that purports to want less government regulation, especially with regard to guns. So, another instance where pro-life really means pro-childbirth. The lives of mothers and living children aren’t as important.
It boggles the mind how these repressive republican a-holes who profess to believe in "small government" want to reach into lives and bedrooms with their medieval control issues.
The same folks who think guns everywhere for everyone without limit are fine. Who think corruption in government by way of Citizen's United in A-OK.
Those dishonorable folk who claim elections were stolen while all indications indicate that the accusers and the guilty are one and the same.
My sincere desire is for thinking citizens to vote like our lives depend upon it because in my opinion, they do. No vanity candidates please. Remember Jill Stein?
What a Trojan Horse she was. Hey, is she still in Russia?
Wake up. THIS IS ALL ABOUT VOTER SUPPRESSION in disguise.
The Red states are desperate to become MORE RED to lock in their old white man power.
And getting the young and liberals to leave Red states does just that
And if you think this is bad, just wait until they BAN ALL BIRTH CONTROL
#MangoWanker #Turdking #Mobster #Traitor
#GOPTraitorsToDemocracy
#MurdochWanker
#Murdoch
Welcome to Gilead.
This will spread like a bad infection. Not unlike those that some women suffer after miscarriages without the proper aftercare, whether by D&C's or medications which are/were standard procedure. Women who unfortunately suffer repeated miscarriages (this happens...) will be highly suspect. For God's sake.
Another example of laws designed to and actually creating confusion surrounding individual choice. When the is confusion, then there is a space in that chaos for the authoritarians to decide that they alone can interpret the laws and regulations. This, of course leads to the breakdown of community and commerce. In such circumstances the preferred class, in this case Christian fundamentalists and QAnon believers, get not only preferential treatment, but the power to punish their opponents outside legal processes and with impunity. The difference between Putin and Abbot is very narrow.
Every single action is about getting and keeping power and money.
So glad that Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and the rest of the Democratic establishment chose not to codify Roe in 2009 when they had a supermajority in the Senate and a majority in the House. The GOP would have been unable to stop them.
Meanwhile, Pelosi and Pharma Jim Clyburn spent the week after the SCOTUS leak campaigning for anti-choice DINO Cuellar so he wouldn't get beat by Cisneros, someone who actually supports the policies that Biden pretends to support.
I try not to use the word 'hate' but I absolutely HATE these evil republican politicians who are trying to ban abortion no matter what. I'd argue that it's far worse to force these women to have these babies when they don't have the means to support a family. Then these same republicans who claim to be pro-life will vote against every bill brought to the floor to help these struggling single mothers. Then that child grows up in an unstable home with a struggling mother and they see nothing wrong with that. These people are incredibly evil and I don't know why every democratic politician doesn't call this out DAILY. They are not pro-life, they are pro-birth and then their commitment to that child ends immediately. Republicans are the worst people in America.
I’d think it would be illegal for a pharmacists to refuse to fill a doctors prescription! They may not believe the woman but this is info coming from a medical professional about a diagnosed condition that requires medication.
Why tf is the Walgreens pharmacist being allowed to disregard a doctors official diagnosis & request? Why are they trying to judge whether the woman is lying when it’s a legal prescription?
Republicans are hellbent on controlling & punishing women.
Thanks for your great reporting, Judd and Popular Information. Shared.
The [lunatic] was ultimately told by [the government] that they had “talked to [voters] and the [victims], and have decided not to [allow you to buy a gun]” since they could not prove that [the lunatic] “isn’t using [the death dealing device] for [a mass shooting].”
See how easy?
It is tremendously disturbing to me that the cult pathology of white misogyny and Christian Nationalism has taken over regions of the United States; that elected officials, in states like Texas, no longer support the rule of law, nor the rights of the people. Of course people must reach beyond the behemoth FDA for support and protection from the hate, the ignorance, the cruelty.
“They’re [Corporations] not the gate-keepers of healthcare.” But, sadly, they think they are and because the corporations control the purse strings, this is only going to get worse. I’m so glad that my adult daughter is no longer living in Texas.
The real life stories with detailed examples have power to reach people who need more genuine information. Have you all heard Senator Gary Peter's address to the Senate (several years ago) in which he describes how his former wife was in danger of dying [her water had broken in the 5th month, and the fetus was no longer viable]? Out of religious "beliefs" her doctor wouldn't perform the necessary (abortion inducing) D&C to save her life! He called another doctor who was a friend who arranged for her to get the lifesaving treatment at his hospital. That was in 1980 or therabouts. On another level, or from another perspective, George Carlin brilliantly excoriates this preference for "the unborn" over the living. We need humor to have perspective about our Human Condition.
I’m a little disappointed in the reporting here, using anecdotal information from a twitter feed or other publications’ use of anecdotal info. The law is obviously onerous, and I’m curious how enforcement will play out. Pharmacies and pharmacists must perform due diligence, but with a diagnosis from a physician confirmed, their duty is done. I expect the corporate overlords will ultimately reach that conclusion, and perhaps this publication and others cited will give a push in that direction. Any liability I think ultimately lies with the physician prescriber, and it’s another hoop for them to jump through on top of the many that insurance providers subject them to.
That said, I agree with many comments that this law is another overstep into the privacy of women’s healthcare from a Republican legislature that purports to want less government regulation, especially with regard to guns. So, another instance where pro-life really means pro-childbirth. The lives of mothers and living children aren’t as important.