250 points

Jesus. That’s almost as dark as the reality of things.

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It’s actually spot on the reality of things. Women are dying now in red states from ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages.

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The comparison for forced birthers is a fraction of a percent to the amount of abortions procured year to year. I hate it, but they’re at least somewhat logically consistent there. Still reduces the quality of life for those that survive forced pregnancies drastically and risks permanent bodily harm. That’s where the hypocrisy shows on how much they value life imo. Raise them to suffer cuz “it’s God’s plan.”

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I feel like risks permanent bodily harm is putting it lightly because pregnancy changes your body permanently even if everything goes “right” not to mention changes your brain permanently.

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JFC this is horrifying and heartbreaking. But that’s the reality for women in Republican-ruled U.S. states, they are being denied health care. The cruelty is intentional.

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Pro-Life!!!

We’re so Pro-Life that we’ll risk your health and even let you die!

And if you even attempt to seek medical care for this we’ll kill you and the provider!

BECAUSE WE’RE SO PRO-LIFE

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30 points

They are anti-women

They want live babies who grow up to be dead soldiers.

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15 points

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194 points

Texas has over a 50% increase in maternal fatality rates.

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31 points

Quit reminding me I need to leave this place.

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15 points

We all do/should. I don’t know if it has gotten worse or if I have just started to realize how bad it actually is but, this state sucks in a lot of ways.

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from 2 to 3 or from 100 to 150?

because one of them might as well be statistically insignificant

Edit: You can downvote me all you want, but the burden of proof lies with the person making the statement, not with everyone else reading it. so fuck right off.

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Here’s an article with a graph. Given that the figures are measured per 100,000 live births, one would need to find how many births occurred in the state of Texas in the years graphed. I was able to find that exact figure for 2022 in a document from the CDC (on page 8) which comes out to 389,533. Since the overall Texas maternal mortality rate was about 28.5 per 100k births for that year (per the news article), the total number of mortalities would have been about 110.

If you want I could go find the figure for earlier years as well, but this should serve as a general ballpark the numbers are in. Keep in mind that the maternal mortality rate only factors in live births, so does not include any pregnancy complications involving an unviable fetus.

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So many that there are statistics grouped by race and counted as “deaths per 10,000 live births”

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631

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It looks like its something like 135 ish per year to 210 ish per year (its like 407 over a 3 year period) in texas with a dramatic increase in pregnancy-related fatalies among white and black women. Note that the avg increase over the same time nationwide is something like 11% (other states also implemented bans) so this is possibly wholly explainable with abortion bans.

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120 points

Well that was fucking dark.

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53 points

Deservedly so

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3 points

I forget that the original was also terribly sad, but my brain only processes it as a meme now.

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118 points

Is this God’s Will?

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56 points

The evangelicals mostly say “yes”, but only because they don’t give a shit about women.

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49 points

That’s not correct. They actively hate women and want them to die.

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43 points

They don’t want them to die immediately, though.

They’re supposed to keep their mouth shut and push out babies until they die…

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29 points

Only if it happens to someone else.

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