The state has one of the country’s highest maternal mortality rates. Now, three hospitals plan to stop delivering babies, putting some pregnant women at even higher risk.

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Fuck everyone in this thread cheering this on. This is NOT the schadenfreude you think it is.

Read the article you dipshits. This is not impacting the wealthy, or white areas, it’s impacting the poor black ones.

All you lazy armchair activists are cheering on the actions that are guaranteed to raise the black infant mortality rate in Alabama even higher than it already is.

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guaranteed to raise the (…) infant mortality rate

there’s a very dark humour joke about abortion somewhere in there

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Almost everyone in this thread is talking about how this is a bad thing and why it happened.

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When I came to the thread I just spammed my point across all the top comments, which were all cheering it on.

So you’re just seeing my comments, and maybe others who came in after and also read the article.

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so you spammed the same shit to everyone with bad takes and you thought it was so important to post a standalone too? jesus dude, relax

there’s only 26 comments (8 parents) a day later ffs, it’s not like there was an outpouring of support the way your comment implies

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Never let reality stop you from getting infuriated.

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Pass stupid laws win stupid prizes.

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Agreed 💯. This is democracy in action. In a way, I’m happy that Alabama is listening to the desires of its citizens. If they don’t want maternity wards then that’s fine with me.

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Yeah, that’ll show the…reads articlepoor black residents of Alabama.

Hey…maybe you should the read the article and then reevaluate your comment.

Well, unless you’re just a really big fan of raising the infant mortality rate of that particular demographic.

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It seems that this is the ‘find out’ part of 'F**CK around and find out for the GOP.

Not that they care of course, the poor are not people, and not GOP*

*Sarcasm, but also, GOP members tend to considers themselves ‘wealthy’, reality be dammed.

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Thank you for pointing that out. Delusional aspirational wealth is a vital part of conservative “logic”.

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Arm the youth.

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It’s the republican evangelical/christian way. Defund anything that actually helps people and line the pockets of the lobbyists. It says to do this right in the Bible of course

“Nobody wants women and children to do poorly, but you also can’t lose money year over year on a service line,” said Dr. John Waits, CEO of the nonprofit Cahaba Medical Care, which runs medical clinics that take patients regardless of their ability to pay

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I’ve also often thought to myself, “You know who has it too good? Poor black mothers and children in the deep south, especially Alabama. Someone should fix that”.

Since we both READ THE ARTICLE, I know you also agree with me…right?

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Will get ever change how they vote? Will they ever realize that voting for the same idiots is how they got here? How many of them have to personally lose a baby or a wife before even reconsidering?

The whole thing makes me sick.

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As far as those inbred rubes are concerned it will just be Hilary Clinton’s fault, or maybe hunter Bidens laptop that’s causing the wards to close.

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Thanks, Obama.

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