alastair-made-me-undo-it: kiwianaroha:strengthins0lidarity:gahdamnpunk: “Watchfully waitin
alastair-made-me-undo-it: kiwianaroha: strengthins0lidarity: gahdamnpunk: “Watchfully waiting” for women to die? Y’all best be ‘watchfully waiting’ for me to whack y’all in the head. If anti-abortion groups make these patients wait “watchfully” instead of taking a dose of methotrexate as soon as the ectopic pregnancy is diagnosed then the pregnancy will fail on its own and cause hemorrhaging and infection that will need emergency surgery. Maybe it will just mean this person loses a fallopian tube and 50% of their fertility. Maybe they’ll die. Either way, they will be adequately punished for being a bad baby maker Ectopic pregnancy, 100% of the time, translates to “Appendicitis 2, Electric Boogaloo.” 100% of the time, an ectopic pregnancy will result in Organ Explosion Syndrome, which we generally know to be Bad. This is not a condition that might turn itself around. This is not a scenario with more than one possible outcome. This is a medical emergency as serious as a heart attack or a bowel obstruction, which we know needs IMMEDIATE intervention or the bad outcome WILL occur. The truly fucked up part is that certain types of IVF carry higher risk of ectopic pregnancy. Which means the people this would be killing would be people who were deliberately trying to become parents. You can’t even say “well, they should’ve used protection, then!” Some of them deliberately used the opposite of protection. That’s the whole point. They never wanted an abortion. They wanted a healthy child, but failing that, they’d probably like to live. Why do we want so desperately to raise our maternal mortality numbers even higher? -- source link