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Amanda Marcotte at Salon:
After the Supreme Court ended federal abortion rights in 2022, there was a robust debate between pro- and anti-choice activists over whether or not banning abortion would kill women. Pro-choicers pointed to evidence, from both history and other countries, showing that abortion bans kill women. Anti-choice activists dismissed the record and pointed to toothless "exceptions" in abortion ban laws as "proof" that women could get abortions to save their lives. The latter argument was frustrating not just because it was wrong but was generally offered in bad faith. Anti-abortion leaders know that abortion bans kill women. They don't care. Or worse, many view dying from pregnancy as a good thing. In some cases, it's viewed as just punishment for "sinful" behavior. Other times, it's romanticized as a noble sacrifice on the altar of maternal duty. But conservatives are aware that this death fetish cuts against their "pro-life" brand. So there was a lot of empty denials and hand-waving about the inevitable â and expected â outcome of women dying.Â
We now have another proof point that abortion bans are about misogyny, not "life," as the first deaths from red state abortion bans are being reported. Instead of admitting they were wrong and changing course, Republicans are behaving like guilty liars do everywhere, and destroying the evidence. In the process, they are also erasing data needed to save the lives of pregnant women across the board, whether they give birth or not. ProPublica has published a series of articles detailing the deaths of women in Georgia and Texas under the two states' draconian abortion bans. They most recently reported the death of Porsha Ngumezi, a 35-year-old mother of two from Texas. Ngumezi suffered a miscarriage at 11 weeks but was left to bleed to death at the hospital, instead of having the failing pregnancy surgically removed. Multiple doctors in Texas confirmed that hospital staff are often afraid to perform this surgery, however, because it's the same one used in elective abortions. Rather than risk criminal charges, doctors frequently stand by and let women suffer â or die. Ngumezi's youngest son doesn't fully understand that his mother is dead. ProPublica reported that he chases down women he sees in public who have similar hairstyles, calling for his mother.Â
A day after this story was published, the Washington Post reported that the Texas maternal mortality board would skip reviewing the deaths of pregnant women in 2022 and 2023 â conveniently, the first two years after the abortion ban went into place. The leadership claims it's about speeding up the review process, but of course, many members pointed out the main effect is that "they would not be reviewing deaths that may have resulted from delays in care caused by Texasâs abortion bans." This is especially noteworthy because it's become standard after one of these reports for anti-abortion activists to blame the victims and/or the doctors, and not the bans. Christian right activist Ingrid Skop, for instance, responded to Nguzemi's death by insisting "physicians can intervene to save womenâs lives in pregnancy emergencies" under the Texas law. If she really believed that, however, she would desperately want the state maternal mortality board to review this, and other cases like it, so they could come up with recommendations for hospital staff to treat women without running afoul of the law. Strop, however, is on the Texas maternal mortality board. She was likely part of the decision to refuse to look into whether women like Nguzemi might be saved.Â
[...] But despite claims to be "pro-life," anti-abortion activists do not care. Instead, they are on Twitter griping about how comprehensive reproductive health care access "promotes sexual promiscuity."Â
Skop also argued last year that abortion bans are justified because "promiscuous behavior declines." It's tempting to point out that all five women whose deaths have been reported by ProPublica were in long-term relationships or marriages. Three of the five planned to bring their pregnancies to term and died because they were denied miscarriage care. But that's the problem with vague terms like "promiscuous." They draw us into debates about how much women are allowed to enjoy sex before their lives are forfeited. Or how many "good girls" should die to punish the "promiscuous" ones. That is the trap of misogyny. It allows women like Lila Rose or Ingrid Skop to pretend that, if you submit to the sexist order and obey all their arbitrary rules, you'll be saved. But these laws punish all women and girls: mothers and non-mothers, wives and single women, women who've had 100 partners and those who were virgins when raped. Abortion bans make crystal clear that, to the Christian right, no woman's life is worth saving. Anyone can be sacrificed, to protect their cruel patriarchal order.Â
Want more reason why abortion bans are bad for women? Republicans are working hard to destroy the evidence that abortion bans kill women.
Abortion bans have zip to do with the "sanctity of life", but are a tool for misogyny.
#Abortion Bans#Abortion#Texas#Maternal Mortality#Porsha Ngumezi#ProPublica#Ingrid Skop#Lila Rose#Anti Abortion Extremism
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What the ever living hell are we living in.
Rather than having her lisence removed, this âdoctorâ is instead being put in charge of keeping the maternal mortality rate down in a state where it doubled in two decades.
Three guesses why, and the first two donât count.
Please, let Texas be the wake up call. Vote blue down the ballot in every election, from federal to local. Itâs the only way to keep these people out of power.
Just voting in presidential elections isnât enough. The president is just one person.
#election 2024#us elections#abortion#womenâs health#child abuse#donât tell me itâs not#rapeculture#please vote#vote blue#vote like your life depends on it#because it does#oc
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The move worries reproductive justice advocates who say the stateâs abortion ban â among the strictest in the US â has placed pregnant womenâs lives in jeopardy. The appointment could undermine the committeeâs ability to accurately examine the impact of the law on deaths during and in the immediate aftermath of pregnancy, they say.
âThis appointment speaks volumes about how seriously certain state leaders are taking the issue of maternal mortality,â said Kamyon Conner, executive director of the Texas Equal Access Fund, an abortion assistance group that advocates for reproductive health equity. âIt is another sign that the state is more interested in furthering their anti-abortion agenda than protecting the lives of pregnant Texans.â
Dr Ingrid Skop, a San Antonio-based OB-GYN, has long been vocal about her views on abortion.
Skop serves as vice-president and director of medical affairs for the national anti-abortion research group Charlotte Lozier Institute and is a member of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She is also a plaintiff in a US supreme court lawsuit seeking to revoke the Food and Drug Administrationâs approval of the key abortion drug mifepristone, which she argues is âdangerousâ despite years of evidence showing the drug is safe. She has authored a number of research papers that were ultimately retracted for misleading errors.
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Pro-life laws arenât driving surge in infant deaths, OB-GYN expert says
null / Credit: SViktoria/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 25, 2024 / 09:15 am (CNA). Pro-life laws are not driving a surge in infant mortality, a prominent OB-GYN and pro-life advocate said this week. Rather, some infants with genetic or congenital abnormalities who might otherwise have been aborted are now being born and passing away, said Dr. Ingrid Skop, an obstetrician and the vice president andâŚ
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ANYONE NOTICE? I REPEAT, ANYONE NOTICE THAT WHILE THE RETUMPLICAN PARTY TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THE BEST HEALTHCARE TAX PAYER MONEY CAN BUY!. THEY SCRAPE THE BOTTOM OF THE MEDICAL FIELD BARREL TO ADVISE ON YOUR HEALTCARE? THEY DON'T RUN TO THE QUACKS THEY FIND TO AGREE WITH THEM!
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What in the ever loving Fuck!? Jesus Texas, you already have the second if not higher rate of teen pregnancy. Who the fuck are the groomers again?
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Texas doctor who said nine-year-olds can safely give birth appointed to maternal mortality committee
Skop â who has called the supreme courtâs overturning of Roe v Wade âa victory in the battle but not the end of the warâ â has argued in favor of forcing rape and incest victims as young as nine or 10 to carry pregnancies to term.
Skop serves as vice-president and director of medical affairs for the national anti-abortion research group Charlotte Lozier Institute and is a member of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She is also a plaintiff in a US supreme court lawsuit seeking to revoke the Food and Drug Administrationâs approval of the key abortion drug mifepristone, which she argues is âdangerousâ despite years of evidence showing the drug is safe. She has authored a number of research papers that were ultimately retracted for misleading errors.
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Texas doctor who said nine-year-olds can safely give birth appointed to maternal mortality committee | Texas | The Guardian
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Jessica Valenti at Abortion, Every Day:
They are killing us. I donât know any other way to put it. Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick. Candi Miller. Amber Nicole Thurman. And now,  Josseli Barnicaâa 28-year old mother, whose smiling face in a selfie she took with her daughter made me weep as soon as I read ProPublicaâs headline: âA Texas Woman Died After the Hospital Said It Would be a âCrimeâ to Intervene in Her Miscarriage.â
Josseli died in 2021, before Roe was overturned but after Texas passed SB 8. Even though she was miscarrying at just 17 weeks into her pregnancy with no chance for the fetusâ survival, doctors told Josseli they couldnât treat her while there was still a heartbeat. By the time her Houston hospital intervened, she had spent two days with a fetus pressed up against her open cervix, exposing her to bacteria. Josseli died of a preventable infection three days later. I am heartbroken, but more than that I am just so angry. I am angry that this young beautiful woman is dead. I am angry that her now-4 year-old daughter will grow up without a mother. I am angry that we have to live in a country where our lives are treated as disposable. And I am really, truly furious about what I know will come next. Anti-abortion groups will rush to send out tweets and press releases with phony condolences, insisting that Texasâ law allows life-saving care. They will blame doctors for not acting quickly enough, the hospital for not giving providers clear enough guidanceâeven pro-choicers for âscaringâ doctors out of treating patients. Anything to shirk blame and to wash the blood off their hands.Â
We cannot let that happen. When Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America comes out with a statement promising that abortion bans protect women, I want you to remember that they lobbied against exceptions for womenâs lives. When the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) claims that Josseli should have been given care, remember that the âcareâ theyâre referring to isnât an abortionâbut a forced c-section or vaginal labor. Thatâs because these groups believe abortion is never necessary to save a personâs life. They use language and push for laws accordingly. Most of all, I want us to rememberâand for all Americans to knowâthat these organizations and legislators knew this would happen. They knew women would suffer and die as a result of their laws and decided to pass them anyway. There is no press release or talking point that can paper over that truth: they decided our deaths were an acceptable trade-off for a political win.Â
When I say that the anti-abortion movement planned for deaths like Josseliâs, I mean it literally. In October 2022, I warned that conservatives had launched a preemptive messaging campaign to blame doctors and abortion rights activists for womenâs deaths. Today, two full years later, weâre watching Republicans insist that itâs not bans endangering women, but pro-choice âmisinformationâ about the laws. They didnât just plan to avoid responsibility for our deaths, thoughâthey planned to cover them up. There is a reason that Republicans are disbanding maternal mortality review committees, or stacking them with anti-abortion activists. In Texas, where Josseli was killed, Republicans put a well-known extremist on the state's maternal death board just a few months ago: Ingrid Skop has made a career out of arguing that maternal mortality statistics canât be trusted and that abortion bans wonât lead to maternal deaths.Â
Jessica Valenti wrote in Abortion, Every Day that the anti-abortion movement is gaslighting the people about the deaths caused by strict abortion bans such as Amber Nicole Thurman and Josseli Barnica.
#Anti Abortion Extremism#Josseli Barnica#Abortion Bans#Abortion#Susan B. Anthony Pro Life America#Texas#Texas SB8
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Skop serves as vice-president and director of medical affairs for the national anti-abortion research group Charlotte Lozier Institute and is a member of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She is also a plaintiff in a US supreme court lawsuit seeking to revoke the Food and Drug Administrationâs approval of the key abortion drug mifepristone, which she argues is âdangerousâ despite years of evidence showing the drug is safe. She has authored a number of research papers that were ultimately retracted for misleading errors.
Skop â who has called the supreme courtâs overturning of Roe v Wade âa victory in the battle but not the end of the warâ â has argued in favor of forcing rape and incest victims as young as nine or 10 to carry pregnancies to term. âIf she is developed enough to be menstruating and become pregnant and reach sexual maturity, she can safely give birth to a baby,â Skop told the House oversight committee in 2021. Pregnancy at such a young age is shown to carry significant health risks, including pre-eclampsia and infections.
#they want to force 9 and 10 year old girls to give birth in cases of rape or incest#mess with Texas#gift link#abortion#pregnancy
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A prominent OB-GYN from Texas debunked the claim that abortion drugs are safer than Tylenol during a U.S. Senate committee hearing Wednesday. Dr. Ingrid Skop, a practicing OB-GYN and vice president and director of medical affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, said women deserve to know the truth about the risks of mifepristone, an abortion [âŚ]
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THE GOP NEVER FAILS TO SCRAPE THE BOTTOM OF WHATEVER PROFESSIONS BARREL TO FIND SOMEONE TO SPOUT THEIR AGENDA!
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A prominent OB-GYN from Texas debunked the claim that abortion drugs are safer than Tylenol during a U.S. Senate committee hearing Wednesday. Dr. Ingrid Skop, a practicing OB-GYN and vice president and director of medical affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, said women deserve to know the truth about the risks of mifepristone, an abortion [âŚ]
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Dr. Ingrid Skop, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., a board-certified OB/GYN who has been practicing in Texas for more than 25 years, said:
âRespectfully, Karine Jean-Pierre needs to read the law. Â Nothing in the new Texas pro-life law is in conflict with standard medical guidance, nor does it prevent me from providing the same care I have always provided women facing potentially life-threatening complications.
âSadly, rhetoric like this from Ms. Jean-Pierre and other abortion advocates is having real-world consequences, as published reports here in Texas document that confusion over these laws has led some doctors to withhold standard medical treatment from women in emergencies.
âThe law is quite clear. Â An exception is allowed based on a doctorâs reasonable medical judgment for a life-threatening complication. Â Guidance from professional medical societies providing specific recommendations for treating both common and uncommon pregnancy complications are also quite clear. Â But the steady drumbeat of misinformation from the White House, media pundits, pro-choice medical organizations and pro-abortion activists is muddying the waters, and that has put the lives of women at risk.â
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In response to the World Health Organizationâs release earlier this summer of updated âself-careâ guidelines recommending the self-administration of abortion-inducing drugs without the direct supervision of a doctor, we asked for input from Dr. Ingrid Skop. In this exclusive statement released to FFL, she explains what is going on internationally and the implications for womenâs health in areas around the world in greatest need of resources and support â and how WHO and abortion advocates work in concert to exploit these vulnerable populations.
#the WHO literally said 'imperialism and genocide but make it ~progressive~'#pro-abort hypocrisy#ps this is how pro-aborts scaremonger cultures into accepting abortion#they provide subpar care and claim that it needs to be legal to be safe#they literally provide their own back alley abortions to bully women into accepting them#systemic racism#neo-colonialism#neo-imperialism
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