Well, it’s happened again. We have the name of another woman who died because of Trump abortion bans.
She Died After a Miscarriage: Doctors said it was “inevitable” that Josseli Barnica would miscarry. Yet they waited 40 hours for the fetal heartbeat to stop. She died of an infection three days later. … Barnica is one of at least two Texas women who died after doctors delayed treating miscarriages, ProPublica found. … More than a dozen doctors who reviewed the case at ProPublica’s request said Barnica’s death was “preventable.” They called it “horrific,” “astounding” and “egregious.”
Keep in mind that the women who can be identified are no doubt not all of the women who have died. Yet the Fetus People continue to hang on to the fiction that abortion procedures are never medically necessary. And this is not the only fiction they are pushing.
A political action committee called RBG PAC—yes, after the former Supreme Court justice—started spending $20 million Friday on a campaign claiming that Trump has been clear that he opposes a national abortion ban (he hasn’t) and that Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the federal government shouldn’t dictate state abortion laws (far from it). Yet the group’s website has the gall to show both their photos, along with the phrase “Great minds think alike.”
As I have said before about the anti-abortion zealots, without all the lies they make up they’d have no argument at all.
One of the best daily news roundups anywhere is the Morming Memo at TPM, usually written by David Kurtz. I’m just going to direct you there for the rest of today’s developments so far.
For a PAC to misappropriate RBG as a proponent of abortion bans strikes me as libel. I don't know if the family can file suit but if they do, the PAC does not want me on the jury.
I seem to recall that when Trump was running in 2015, he said the position on abortion of any candidate for the USSC was a litmus test. I'm not sure those words are exact but that's what he did. Now that the fruits are certain, Trump will blame it on the states.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1851794110648127596
My wife had a miscarriage 40 years ago, it was very traumatic to go through, she received excellent appropriate care, completely non-controversial in those days. She is alive and well now, as are the children she gave birth to later.
These people – blatantly and shamelessly lying, appallingly misusing and misrepresenting the memory of RBG just to impose their views on everybody else, may their god send them to hell.
The last thing the United States healthcare system needs is more impediments to navigate your way to any sort of positive health outcome.
There is no map or Garmin like device.
No one understands it's ever-changing billing system (if it even deserves the word system).
One is totally at the mercy of insurance systems both public and private.
The only rule you can count on is that if you have a bit of it working for you it is only temporary…change is its only constant.
Misinformation and biased information are about all you can find.
With the Dobbs decision, women's navigational problems are more deadly.
As with all problems there are those who promise to fix it. Most of them will tell you that things might get worse before they get better. You can normally count on the worse part. Never count on anything better. Always they seem to have a hidden agenda.
One is totally at the mercy of insurance systems both public and private.
I've had the same private health insurance for the last six years, and even though the premiums are paid in part by my employer, the out of pocket cost for me is significant. Even still, every year I end up paying more out of pocket on top of that for the same procedures where before there was no out of pocket cost — $400 here, $1200 there, etc.
The ACA was a start, but its going to take years to "fix" the health care system. But that means years of consistent leadership focused on fixing rather than getting sidetracked on greed. I am so sick of voters who have no clue, other than "throw the bums out" because the price of eggs go up, and damn everything else. Unless we can get voters to focus on the long term, the big picture, we'll be forever stuck in this loop with things getting worse and worse.
Frank Schaeffer is the guy who claims responsibility for having figured out how to empower the anti-abortion movement. Today he’s remorseful. He says that his original intention had been to help create a Christian cultural norm where everybody would want to love and protect all children, with “pro-life” only being one focus.
But he misunderestimated evangelical greed, especially that of his former ally Falwell, who stole and popularized only the “pro-life” part while discarding all the rest, especially the “love and protect all children” parts.
He’s on record today proclaiming that most conservative evangelicals “are insane”, with their brains having been mis-programmed by evil intent.
If I was a true Christian believer (not some fake virtue-signaling cult zombie caring little about scripture) I’d be horrified. There are after all, verses in their own Bible which clearly tells them they'll be going nowhere good after they die. Because their faith has been compromised. Nowhere near strong enough to pass judgment.
Meanwhile, Trump and the GOP is positioning themselves as the party of abusers. Trump saying he's going to "protect women, whether they like it or not" seems to call attention to what "protect" means. Allowing women like Barnica to die but for a routine post miscarriage procedure, positioning themselves between women and their doctors. Trump said in an interview there should be some punishment for a woman who has an abortion, where this is broadly defined to cover miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and other situations where the fetus is not viable. And I'm sick and tired of Trumpist white men whining about how they're being treated as they go barreling around treating women like sex objects, the whole "trad wife" thing and demanding they be respected for acting like a**holes.
I hope and pray women come out in force to reject all this on Nov 5. Its bewildering that with all that Trump and the GOP has said and done, that they have any women at all supporting them.