Blastocyst

 I miss mentioning the blastocyst stage of pregnancy when I rant about a female's right to liberty ~ freedom of choice ~ liberty guaranteed to citizens via 14th Amendment. Some one needs to start a class action lawsuit against the Supreme Court Justices who voted to overthrow Roe v Wade.

Most woman who miscarry do so in the first trimester of pregnancy. That blastocyst or newly developing embryo has something wrong with it or where it was attached as it slid down the fallopian tube. That blastocyst is considered a human life to be protected ~ personhood. What if that defective or implanted fertilized egg does not spontaneously abort itself? 

Why ever should a female or attending physician need to prove in a court of law that it was not a medically assisted early termination? What a waste of time for overcrowded courts. Why must doctors be leary of treating, helping a pregnant women for fear of arrest? 

How I wish all those antis would take off their blinders and realize that there are multiple reasons Roe v Wade was necessary law.  Sure some females abused the law, but I only know of one that choose to abort due to her husband not wanting another girl. 

I personally know of two ectopic pregnancies, one still born; several teenagers, one for sure, raped that choose to abort.  The teens went on to later marry, have children, who now make them grandmothers.  I no longer recall how many I personally know who had miscarriages. Many.

A Zygote is not a body

 "I understand women saying, ‘I need to control my own body,’ but once you have another body in there, that’s their body,” Ms. Moore said." Melissa  Moore quoted in article 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/us/politics/kansas-abortion-vote.html

Repeat after me Ms. Melissa Moore: A zygote is not a body. A. Zygote. Is. Not. A. Body.  Take off the blinders Ms. Moore. A zygote is invisible cells. A zygote is not a body. 

If a woman has a miscarriage after 6 weeks in some states, she will not be allowed to have a D & C, Ms. Moore. If that fetal material is not scraped and removed from a womb, Ms. Melissa Moore, the woman may never be able to conceive again. Or she could die from infection, Ms. Moore.

That fetal stuff that remained in the womb Is Not A Body, Ms. Moore.  Even an embryo is not really a body. It takes time for the heart and lungs to fully develop. Sometimes they never do, leaving a malformed fetus in the woman's body. How dare you, Ms. Moore, think you (and others) have the right to dictate to females when you are clueless as to what her pregnancy issues may be.

Dangerous elected officials

 Okay, so the North Carolina bill did not pass, but its author, Rep. Pittman, and co-sponsor, Rep. Brody are dangerous elected officials. How does anyone know the exact moment of fertilization? Some woman claim to have known the exact moment; I believe I know when I became pregnant with my son, but not due to any physical sensations. 

These reps believe that a raped woman who takes that morning after pill, should be either put to death for murder, or sent to prison for life. WTF How can one murder something that is invisible? Pro-life? Let us now kill females because they believe a zygote is a person? 

Why do women elect such miscognist men to make laws that delegate females to non-person status, with no rights?

Reps like Pittman are why the Federal government needs to enforce citizens rights to liberty. Overturning Roe v Wade gives dangerous elected officials the right to violate females' right to choice (liberty=freedom of choice) 

Read it yourself here:

https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2021/Bills/House/PDF/H158v1.pdf

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Biology vs Religion

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctor-womans-uterus-not-cathedral-101907571.html

Woman's womb is not a cathedral

"The very act of overturning Roe v. Wade was inherently unconstitutional. It violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and created a religion under the guise of state government, controlled by faith and not reason."

"Opposition to Roe v. Wade is based on the very popular notion that the medical procedure is an affront to the genuinely perceived spiritual convictions of a religious majority. But that is religion, and not science."

14th Amendment guarantees liberty for citizens. A zygote, embryo, fetus is not a citizen, until after it is born. 

9th Amendment prohibits cruel & unusual punishment. It is cruel to punish a child or any raped woman to have an unwanted baby. It is unusual for a rapist to be punished with castration. Yet the antis approve of cruel & unusual treatment of females for having the audacity to allow a fetus to die in her womb. 

Law makers are not gynecologists. Men have never gone through childbirth ~ often excruciating painful. Why are they allowed to make laws regarding a personal choice? 

Tired of the subject. 

Thumb females are voters

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-rep-matt-gaetz-abortion-122519666.html

"Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb." Rep. Mark Gaetz 

Does Gaetz think he will win votes from 5'2, 350 pound women? Perhaps like his supporter ~ the former guy ~ he thinks disparaging comments are funny? 

I do not know how a female looks, so that he considers them looking like a thumb. Maybe his thumbs are short and fat, seeing as he followed that comment mentioning height and weight, calling them " odious inside and out." 

He claims that short, obese women are the only ones marching, rallying for female's liberty. The photos I have seen of protestors show men & women of all sizes. The senators that were arrested appear taller and slender to me.

It angers me that females would vote for men like Gaetz. I know many wonderful males, but know even more that are as misogynist and demeaning as him, with regards to females' body shapes and conceived beauty. 

Zygote

You call what you can see below this text life? 

heartless Tudor Dixon

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-candidate-hypothetical-14-old-213555575.html

Tudor Dixon opposes abortion due to uncle raping 14-year-old niece

Not allowing a doctor assisted early termination of pregnancy for a child is to impose cruel & unusual punishment upon the girl. As one reader commented:

(Gena wrote:) My 14 year-old granddaughter's hips are 9.5 inches from hip point to hip point. I cannot imagine her carrying a baby in that tiny cavity. It would cause excruciating pain and she would be in danger of getting a fistula or some other horrible condition. The baby would have a low birth weight and be at risk of other congenital conditions. And that doesn't even address the mental anguish that children forced to give birth experience. It seems a bit ironic that these anti-abortion people claim to care about life--what about the life of a little girl? Doesn't she matter? This is all so cruel and senseless.

Another reader also commented about her 14-year-old granddaughter's size. Some readers suggested that heartless Tudor Dixon might feel differently if her husband raped one of her daughters. And wondered how many couples would care to adopt a baby produced by incestous rape.
Politicians, Supreme Court justices are not gynecologists. They do not have enough information about pregnancies to forbid choice. Other readers pointed out that it would be these same politicians/government that will get to decide if a female's life is endangered during pregnancy.
President Obama presented the example of a pregnant female being rushed to hospital after car crash. The doctor should be free to administer life-saving treatment, without worrying that s/he might have to go to court to prove s/he had to perform a surgery or administer medication that caused the fetus to abort.

Consulting with 3 other physicians to determine if the woman's life is truly in danger, might consign her to death. Government needs to stop meddling in females' health concerns. And ditto those who vote for politicians like heartless Tudor Dixon.

Pregnancy & Cancer

 https://www.oncnursingnews.com/view/caring-for-a-pregnant-patient-with-cancer?fbclid=IwAR3ZZ4I6UFK_pVSVN_HPcxd0-LcdKeg1RTGG6Br3TbsQQ5iTNuNKwmBfpnc

Options for treating pregnant women for cancer.

14th Amendment forbids the states from depriving any person of “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” and from denying anyone equal protection under the law.

States like Texas deprive females of liberty when it comes to pregnancy, and also want to penalize them, often forcing them to go through court. 

A woman with a miscarriage went to jail due to medical personnel reporting her for a self-induced pregnancy termination. It is a sad precedent that many females will now need to prove a miscarriage was natural. 

A doctor in Ohio is being investigated after ending the ten-year-old rape victim's pregnancy at the request of her parents. 

Luckily an embryo will abort (according to article) by two weeks due to certain chemo drugs or tests. Unlucky the woman who learns that her fetus became deformed due to cancer treatment if she learns that after 6 weeks of pregnancy. 

The 8th Amendment prohibits cruel & unusual punishment. Forcing a pregnant woman with cancer to continue pregnancy of a deformed fetus is cruel. It would be unusual for men to suffer the same fate. 

How about arresting, fining, jailing the boy/man who created an unwanted pregnancy. 

The Supreme Court gave states the green light to (mis)treat females in any manner they deem fair, for having the audacity to get cancer while pregnant. Or consenting to rape & incestuoud relationships. 

Move to another state

 Move to another state is often a reply to article comments. Some feel they have to patiently explain that the Supreme Court overthrowing Roe v Wade did not outlaw abortion, it just gave states the right to make their own laws. 

As I see it, citizens ~ including women ~ were granted liberty and to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. Up to the Federal government to protect females, not to give states carte blanche to deny them liberty. 

Speaking of horses, no sense flogging a dead horse. 

Some one suggested in those same article comments to use the withdrawal method for preventing unwanted pregnancies.  

"I won't come inside you," he told the virgin who refused sex due to fear of getting pregnant. 

"Oops, I hope you don't get pregnant, I did not pull out soon enough..." he said.

"I know someone who can get a pill to end the pregnancy," he said.

Roe v Wade had not yet been decided. She never wanted to bring kids into this horrible world. Yet, once pregnant, she wanted the baby. Maternal instinct? 

There is more to that story, for now, moral is: her body, her choice.

Article Comments

  "Her child now doesn't have theirs because she decided to get pregnant as a teenager."

"If you care about it that much, dennis... you can move states. The tire fire of California would welcome your stupidity." "yup - no concern for the murdering of a child."

"Every single woman I know who has had an abortion thinks about that murder on the murder day and on the day that would have been the child's birthday."

"Or birth control. Doesn't anyone even think of that anymore??"

"abortion is the worst form of child abuse in this case the child never has a chance to recover from that (abortion) abuse"

"I'm sorry, but I feel that if someone did not want a baby, there was enough ways such as the pill, or safe sex rather than killing a life that is in fact only God's choice, not yours to murder."

 " but this is how these tunnel vision pro-abortonists have been proven to think." (their spelling error, not mine)

*50+ years ago it was not likely a teenager would be given birth control pills.
*I do not know of any female who had an abortion as a teen that thinks about terminating an unwanted pregnancy.  
*Yes, the boy who sweet talked or pressured his girlfriend into having sex should have used condoms. 50 some years ago a young virgin teen girl probably did not know anything about birth control.
*I guess one could say that chemo kills cancer cells. I do not know why they consider a zygote as life to be killed or murdered. 
*At 6 weeks an embryo's heart is not fully formed. The cluster of cells that will become the heart, emits electrical signals that could be mistaken for a heartbeat.
*The fetus will not be able to survive outside the female's womb until 6 months. 
*Terminating a pregnancy prior to that point is only taking away POTENTIAL life.
*There can not be a child without first giving birth to a baby.

But this is how the anti choice people's tunnel vision have been proven to think. I did not reply to any comments on the article. Waste of time explaining about ectopic and other non viable pregnancies. Talk about tunnel vision, they are like horses with binders on their eyes. 

Children in Foster Care

 

 Landed on my FB Timeline. I did not verify accuracy.

Bans off our bodies photos

 https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/07/09/1110710067/photos-abortion-rights-activists-protest-outside-the-white-house?fbclid=IwAR0Q9SytAV463zJU-gIp888cPbr3RFNpjBZbjcJvmLwdiJnshcN4ol0S8M8

White House protest photos 

Dr. Caitlin Bernard

 "from June 24, the day of the U.S. Supreme Court decision, to July 11, 2022. The 10-year-old victim is among seven patients younger than 18 who received abortion care in Indiana during the time period."

The ten year old was the only one of those listed pregnancy was result of abuse.

Recently some anti wrote in comments on a Roe v Wade article, that only 1% of rapes result in pregnancy.  Quick Google search shows: "The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year."

Thus the anti's data was incorrect. So what if the child's rape resulted in pregnancy, he thinks, none of those raped female's pregnancies should qualify them for doctor assisted termination of pregnancy. Wonder what the person would say if those 32,101 rapists were castrated and/or made to provide financial aid starting at the moment of conception,

The raped pregnant females might not mind carrying their rapists' fetus to term, going through labor, often excruciating painful delivery to give birth to their baby. They might not mind raising the baby to adulthood.Others would find it horrifying ~ a constant reminder of the violence visited upon them. 

Even if it were only 1%, the choice is always hers and hers alone, not some stranger living 3,000 miles away. 

Dr. Caitlin Bernard being investigated 

 https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/07/14/ohio-abortion-10-year-old-indiana-todd-rokita-dr-caitlin-bernard/65373626007/

Pesky Facts Meme

 

I fact checked these quotes. I need to read the works of Thomas Paine. How do I really know that he wrote the above quote, for a fact. Things we were taught as children or common knowledge, we learned as adults that they were false.

Like George Washington saying he could not tell a lie, "I chopped down the cherry tree." Or that Jimi Hendrix said: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

He may have said that, but it was not an original thought. People point out that William Gladstone said "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will the world know the blessings of peace."

It is also reported that Sri Chinmoy Ghose words were "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then there will be true peace."

And also, "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace," attributed to Mahatma Gandhi . 

The internet also will bring up information about Thomas Paine, George Washington, Jimi Hendrix or Thomas Jefferson's dates of birth and deaths. I can not vouch for accuracy of that information anymore than I can truly say the meme's quotes are facts.  But I did try to verify. 

Best Comment

Best Comment on an article about Senator Mitch McConnell "It's true that stimulus money is keeping people at home. Ever since I got those $1,400, I bought a car, a house, a boat, a vacation home in Cancun next to Ted Cruz's mansion, and I got plans for a private jet. I've been living the good life. I placed the remainder of those $1,400 in a savings account and I'm living off the interest that it earns. I have no plans to go back to work." ~ S What McConnell is quoted as saying:

"You've got a whole lot of people sitting on the sidelines because, frankly, they're flush for the moment, What we've got to hope is once they run out of money, they'll start concluding it's better to work than not to work." ~ Mitch McConnell 

How 'bout the million+ people who have died due to COVID? Dead people are highly unlikely to be seeking jobs.  Why do people elect such ~ what can I say except ~ dumb people to become our nation's lawmakers and leaders?! 

A granddaughter took a gap year away from college. She decided to also take off from working because she has been working since she was 14. I think she was 15 when she started a summer job at a seasonal Italian Ice shop. She did put in a lot of effort in high school band and jazz band. Point is, there may be many other students like her, that, after COVID just wanted some time off from jobs. 

Her father used to hold several part time jobs ~ likes to keep busy. Carpal tunnel surgeries, knee injuries and more surgeries have kept him from his regular job. If not for that, he would like to fill one of those empty part time positions. 

Many reasons people are not filling those jobs ~ especially the ones that do not pay enough or give enough hours to make taking them worthwhile.

Philly Parade Shooting

Philly parade shooting injures two officers. 

"It was honestly like the running of the bulls where you just hear people running and running and not turning back," Saks said.

Ryan Spence: "I was like, 'I'm going to die. I'm going to die.' ...

"Let's move on and celebrate?" (me, quoting, being sarcastic) Maybe there were always shootings at 4th of July ~ Independence Day parades, but not widely reported in local newspapers? 

Philadelphia Parade Shooting

 https://6abc.com/philadelphia-fourth-of-july-shooting-party-on-the-parkway-police-officers-shot-ben-franklin/12019620/

Move On, Let's Celebrate

 GOP candidate for Illinois Governor Darren Bailey releases a video regarding the shooting in Highland Park:

“Now let’s move on and celebrate the independence of this nation. We know the mission. We have got to get corruption and evil out of our government.”

Did the wannabe governor just imply that a corrupt, evil government official just killed 6 people? Or that the government officials that want stricter gun regulations are corrupt and evil?

I think he is fairly evil thinking people whose loved ones died in the shooting and those who witnessed yet another mass shooting would be in the mood to move on and celebrate. In true Republican fashion, he did ask the crowd to pray before telling them to move on & celebrate. Twitter reply to the video:

Jeff Tiedrich

@itsJeffTiedrich

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#BREAKING: Well-Regulated Militia Opens Fire On Fourth Of July Parade In Highland Park, Illinois; Cheap Thoughts And Useless Prayers Now Being Rushed To The Scene ... more on this soon-to-be-forgotten-and-then-repeated story as it develops ...

Unpopular 4th of July, Orlando

 “Oh, here we go,” Christina Pushaw, DeSantis’s spokeswoman, tweeted on Sunday. 

“The City of Orlando apologizes if you were offended by their attack on 4th of July,” she wrote. “This is what happens when you elect Democrats, you guys… they do not have the same view of America as we do.” (biased much?)

“Y’all do not need to apologize — your first email captured the tone of how many Americans (and Orlandoans) are feeling right now,” Florida state Rep. Anna Eskamani (D), who represents parts of Orlando, tweeted on Saturday. “It’s ok not to be ok.”

This is what happens when you elect representatives like De Santis and his ilk. Especially when they support the con man, failed businessperson who has lots of opinions, but zero experience with representing citizens best interests. Who then appoints Supreme Court Justices who do not know the First Amendment and refuse to separate church from government.

Orlando Backlash

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3545523-city-of-orlando-apologizes-for-fourth-of-july-message-following-backlash/

Another Roe v Wade casualty

 Another Roe v Wade overturn casualty happened to a Facebook game friend. She shared this article to explain why her arthritis medicine was suddenly changed.  The newly prescribed medication may cause her unwanted side effects.

The article mentions ectopic pregnancies. I mentioned them in many comments on a Facebook article earlier this afternoon. Why bother? A waste of time trying to educate people as to possible reasons a woman chooses a doctor assisted early pregnancy termination. 


The Methotrexate Dilemma 

https://www.arthritis.org/about-us/news-and-updates/new-barrier-to-methotrexate-for-arthritis-patients?fbclid=iwar2hqofglnxbucqhjved3jmjgpxxtcls_oljaxilwl0mmlbfjxh5xjmzzcc

Point Guard

 Point Guard made a valid point:

the conundrum here is that if you do allow abortion only in the case of rape then you are a hypocrite. if you believe it's murder then rape doesn't change your belief. that's why abortion should be each woman's right to choose.

In the beginning they called themselves "anti-abortionist" ~ I believe they changed it to "pro life" to mimic  Pro-Choice or sound more positive. Walk a mile in an eleven-year-old pregnant by rape child's shoes. How could anyone think they have the right to make her choice to continue the pregnancy for her? 

No one has the right to make choices for a pregnant female other than her own self. Planned Parenthood councils the pregnant girl to consider her religion, does she have strong personal or religious beliefs regarding abortion.They encourage the girls to think about the future, to take the decision seriously.

If one truly believes one can murder a fertilized egg, then they should not allow exceptions for saving the pregnant woman's life such as in an  ectopic pregnancy. Left untreated that pregnancy could erupt the fallopian tube, surely killing the fetus and possibly the woman as well.

The Federal Government should protect a woman's right to make her own choices; liberty, freedom of choice is hogwash if it only extends to males. People do not know the reason a stranger living 3,000 miles away from them is describing a doctor assisted early termination of pregnancy, so need to Mind. Their. Own. Business.