In the midst of the turmoil in July 2022, they learned Mayron was pregnant again. But this time, doctors warned she and her fetus might not survive.

The embryo had been implanted in scar tissue from her recent cesarean section. There was a high chance that the embryo could rupture, blowing open her uterus and killing her, or that she could bleed to death during delivery. The baby could come months early and face serious medical risks, or even die.

Tennessee already had some of the worst outcomes in the nation when measuring maternal health, infant mortality and child poverty. Lawmakers who paved the way for a new generation of post-Roe births did little to bolster the state’s meager safety net to support these babies and their families.

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    The solution is obvious. Stop having heterosexual sex.

    Gay sex for everyone - the ultimate conservative goal!

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    Conservatives will see the cruelty and argue: “Well, this is sad, but it is worth in order to keep Society healthy and pure”.

    Its a lie. But admitting that would mean facing the prospect of being evil all along.

    So we all have to suffer instead.

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        Ask someone who actually supports this what they think. They’ll say something super fucktarded and out of touch like “I don’t see the problem. If people can’t handle the consequences, they shouldn’t be having sex”

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    After her 10-hour shifts, Mayron visited Elayna as often as she could, sometimes sleeping in her car in the hospital’s parking garage.

    Oof. And keep in mind that they had another infant at home.

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    This was such a hard read, because the way the story was told always made me feel that with the right help, this family could get okay.

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      The right help was abortion, because we sure as fuck know that there aren’t any fallbacks once born.

      People know this and take the responsible choice of terminating the pregnancy, except the “small conservative government” needs uneducated slaves.

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    Yup. Been saying this at about Shitty Christian Republicans for decades now.

    It’s fine, not fucking really, if you think your Shitty Christian beliefs says you want to ban abortion but fuck your hypocritical Shitty Christian ass when you don’t provide the mother and the fucking child you forced her to have the money and support to raise them.

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    Fuck the people who pass these laws can’t they just do what they want based on their religeon and leave others the fuck alone

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        No I’m not saying it’s an inconvenience, I’m saying there are many women I have known recently to treat it as such. I think it’s fine to get a C-section as my own son was born that way, it’s that it almost seems to be a trend that you take that option so you don’t have to deal with labor, at least for the rich women that I have known.

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          And?

          Child birth is extremely traumatic on the body, usually with permanent side effects. I wouldn’t blame anyone for making that choice.

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      That c-section was a travesty. What the hell were they doing, making an incision over six inches long straight up her abdomen, cutting across the grain of all her abdominal muscles? That doctor should have their license revoked.

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      Government incentivized sterilization isn’t a path we should ever tread down. It’s really fucked up.

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          Seems more simple to have easily accessible emergency contraceptives, and maybe some better welfare so vulnerable women are less reliant on shitty men.

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            Nahhh it’s so much easier to blame the individual than to think for a moment about our culpability as members of the society that breaks people down and puts them in these situations! /s

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          Ya cuz only those “deserving” sterilization will be the ones who are “sterilized” totally wrong fee used by the state to genicide the “others”

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          And who gets to decide? And when the administration changes, who decides then?

          Maybe your distant family member should’ve been raised with better sex education. Punishing all poor people isn’t the answer.

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      Replicans demonstrate a lack of care and concern for children every day.

      Unless they can have sex with them that is.