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Completely independent of the baby having rights or not it is obviously endangering someone if they do not let them leave to see a doctor when the person has pain.

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Yeah. This struck me as depraved and insane that an employee could not leave work for more than 2 hours for medical reasons. How completely bozotic.

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Probably so understaffed to cut costs that her leaving would leave the prisoners unsupervised. Mammon rejoices.

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If she’s having a medical emergency, is she capable of supervising the prisoners? Seems to me like they were unsupervised whether she was there or not.

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Aka literally any security, police, EMS, or really any first responder work.

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The takeaway is that being pro-life is a very profitable enterprise until it isn’t, then it’s just another liability to the bottom line that needs to be stripped away. This is what it looks like to serve greed

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I honestly hope they’re too far up their own asses to realize its a liability yet. If they consider it profitable into next years election cycle, and the trend of the last few special elections holds, then having them double down could really benefit the democrats.

Then, maybe the US could get the majority required to enshrine abortion rights into law nationally and put an end to this nonsense.

I acknowledge this could all just be wishful thinking, however.

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Only if we got the lazy 1/3rd of the country to vote that refuses to

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I don’t think its fair to characterize itcall as laziness. I wanted to vote in my state’s Supreme Court election, but the booth was in a megachurch; not super workable for me as a trans woman.

Thankfully, Wisconsin’s court flipped anyway.

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This is what it looks like to serve greed

I disagree only slightly. This is what it looks like to control women’s bodies and deny any sense of agency.

Doctors tend not to believe women when they are in pain, or what they experience in their own bodies. This is even worse for black women, which is why more black women die during or after childbirth. Even Serena Williams almost died after giving birth because the doctors didn’t believe her.

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Personally I don’t see a difference. Controlling women’s bodies and denying them free agency causes financial strain and keeps the funnel of resources flowing in one direction. Any moral justification or religious zealotry is just part of the act used to sell this idea to the small brained and weak willed, lining pockets is the real endgame. How women are treated by doctors is simply a symptom of the system.

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Imo the baby isn’t really important here. It’s the fact that she wasn’t allowed to leave after experiencing abnormal pain while pregnant! We should be taking so much better care of pregnant people.

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Weird. You don’t think they would be suggesting that the US has the highest rate among countries of similar wealth? (/s)

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Hypocrisy is pretty on brand for Republicans.

More proof that the anti-abortion movement is about controlling women, not about being “pro-life”.

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I wish I could say I’m surprised.

To the right, the “rights of a fetus” are only relevant when its convenient to their agenda. Otherwise, they don’t exist. They’ll shamelessly use whatever arguments are in their arsenal to achieve their version of reality. Consistency and hypocrisy be damned.

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