#amber v nicole

[emiliamildner]

Dianna & Samkiel from The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole

I originally made the two portraits and combined them to celebrate the release of The Dawn of The Cursed Queen

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[bombitart]

OMG, I've finally finished this cute animation for Samkiel and Dianna from "The book of Azrael" by Amber Nicole. It was amazing little journey of mine. First sketch, final render and finally animation 🤯.It took more then two weeks to have it's done. So now Im really proud of myself 😁😎. I thought Ill do this art after I finish book,but I still have few chapters to read, and I couldn't wait any longer 😉.Hope you'll love this artwork as much as I do. ❤️❤️❤️

P.S. Hope you recognised Drake on the backside 🤭🧐😁.

[inlovewithquotes]

Don't you know? Love is the purest form of destruction there is.

-The Book Of Azrael

[mika-no-sekai-blog]

“That’s eight ways now, because when we leave here, I’m going to fuck the word friend out of your vocabulary.”

The Book of Azrael, Amber V. Nicole

[whenwewereyoung97]

I thought it would be a good idea to map out all of the books I have preordered.

Spoiler alert: it was not a good idea. This is torture.

I will be checking this every day.

[itsskye]

I just finished the book of azrael.

i did not expect to find "merda" as in "mother.

(it means shit in italian)

[maepolzine]

What is in my Physical To-Be-Read (TBR) List

I am a mood reader, but I’ve been trying hard to finish all of the books I own before buying any new ones. That being said, I do have approximately 10+ books to read that I’m attempting to balance with the books I read on my Kindle. Thankfully, several of these are available through Kindle Unlimited, allowing me to read them more quickly. While others I also have digital copies, I knew that was…

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Kavitha Surana at ProPublica:

In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat. She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C. But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison. Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-year-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail. It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate. By then, it was too late.

The otherwise healthy 28-year-old medical assistant, who had her sights set on nursing school, should not have died, an official state committee recently concluded.

Tasked with examining pregnancy-related deaths to improve maternal health, the experts, including 10 doctors, deemed hers “preventable” and said the hospital’s delay in performing the critical procedure had a “large” impact on her fatal outcome. Their reviews of individual patient cases are not made public. But ProPublica obtained reports that confirm that at least two women have already died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state. There are almost certainly others. Committees like the one in Georgia, set up in each state, often operate with a two-year lag behind the cases they examine, meaning that experts are only now beginning to delve into deaths that took place after the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion.

Thurman’s case marks the first time an abortion-related death, officially deemed “preventable,” is coming to public light. ProPublica will share the story of the second in the coming days. We are also exploring other deaths that have not yet been reviewed but appear to be connected to abortion bans. Doctors warned state legislators women would die if medical procedures sometimes needed to save lives became illegal. Though Republican lawmakers who voted for state bans on abortion say the laws have exceptions to protect the “life of the mother,” medical experts cautioned that the language is not rooted in science and ignores the fast-moving realities of medicine.

The most restrictive state laws, experts predicted, would pit doctors’ fears of prosecution against their patients’ health needs, requiring providers to make sure their patient was inarguably on the brink of death or facing “irreversible” harm when they intervened with procedures like a D&C. “They would feel the need to wait for a higher blood pressure, wait for a higher fever — really got to justify this one — bleed a little bit more,” Dr. Melissa Kottke, an OB-GYN at Emory, warned lawmakers in 2019 during one of the hearings over Georgia’s ban. Doctors and a nurse involved in Thurman’s care declined to explain their thinking and did not respond to questions from ProPublica. Communications staff from the hospital did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Georgia’s Department of Public Health, which oversees the state maternal mortality review committee, said it cannot comment on ProPublica’s reporting because the committee’s cases are confidential and protected by federal law.

The availability of D&Cs for both abortions and routine miscarriage care helped save lives after the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, studies show, reducing the rate of maternal deaths for women of color by up to 40% the first year after abortion became legal. But since abortion was banned or restricted in 22 states over the past two years, women in serious danger have been turned away from emergency rooms and told that they needed to be in more peril before doctors could help. Some have been forced to continue high-risk pregnancies that threatened their lives. Those whose pregnancies weren’t even viable have been told they could return when they were “crashing.” Such stories have been at the center of the upcoming presidential election, during which the right to abortion is on the ballot in 10 states.

Thurman, who carried the full load of a single parent, loved being a mother. Every chance she got, she took her son to petting zoos, to pop-up museums and on planned trips, like one to a Florida beach. “The talks I have with my son are everything,” she posted on social media.

But when she learned she was pregnant with twins in the summer of 2022, she quickly decided she needed to preserve her newfound stability, her best friend, Ricaria Baker, told ProPublica. Thurman and her son had recently moved out of her family’s home and into a gated apartment complex with a pool, and she was planning to enroll in nursing school. The timing could not have been worse. On July 20, the day Georgia’s law banning abortion at six weeks went into effect, her pregnancy had just passed that mark, according to records her family shared with ProPublica. Thurman wanted a surgical abortion close to home and held out hope as advocates tried to get the ban paused in court, Baker said. But as her pregnancy progressed to its ninth week, she couldn’t wait any longer. She scheduled a D&C in North Carolina, where abortion at that stage was still legal, and on Aug. 13 woke up at 4 a.m. to make the journey with her best friend.

On their drive, they hit standstill traffic, Baker said. The clinic couldn’t hold Thurman’s spot longer than 15 minutes — it was inundated with women from other states where bans had taken effect. Instead, a clinic employee offered Thurman a two-pill abortion regimen approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, mifepristone and misoprostol. Her pregnancy was well within the standard of care for that treatment. Getting to the clinic had required scheduling a day off from work, finding a babysitter, making up an excuse to borrow a relative’s car and walking through a crowd of anti-abortion protesters. Thurman didn’t want to reschedule, Baker said. At the clinic, Thurman sat through a counseling session in which she was told how to safely take the pills and instructed to go to the emergency room if complications developed. She signed a release saying she understood. She took the first pill there and insisted on driving home before any symptoms started, Baker said. She took the second pill the next day, as directed.

Deaths due to complications from abortion pills are extremely rare. Out of nearly 6 million women who’ve taken mifepristone in the U.S. since 2000, 32 deaths were reported to the FDA through 2022, regardless of whether the drug played a role. Of those, 11 patients developed sepsis. Most of the remaining cases involved intentional and accidental drug overdoses, suicide, homicide and ruptured ectopic pregnancies. Baker and Thurman spoke every day that week. At first, there was only cramping, which Thurman expected. But days after she took the second pill, the pain increased and blood was soaking through more than one pad per hour. If she had lived nearby, the clinic in North Carolina would have performed a D&C for free as soon as she followed up, the executive director told ProPublica. But Thurman was four hours away.

The consequences of draconian abortion bans are being felt, as at least two women in Georgia died over being denied emergency medical care.

[foolforloveee]

I couldn’t have kept the smile from my face even if I’d wanted to. I never could with her.

Amber V. Nicole, The Book of Azrael

[inlovewithquotes]

She was my enemy, yet my enemy was the only one who seemed to understand me and the demons I fought.

-The Book Of Azrael

[mika-no-sekai-blog]

And here is the rest.

I almost forgot about this😅

66 books in total in 2024, most of them just audio because who has time to sit and peacefully read nowadays, right?

I already shared the first 4 months of this year's reading journey and here are another 4 months.

[rhysmylove]

i just finished the second book of the gods and monsters series and i NEED to get this out of my system

i know kaden is the villain,i know he's TERRIBLE,i know he did unimaginable thing to dianna ,i know they aren't endgame and he's really toxic and selfish and i know liam is endgame but.... am i the only one who died when kaden suddenly showed up behind her and said "miss me?" LIKE DUDE I WAS WHIPPED. And then later he goes on to tell her how he loves her "in his own twisted way" ???

i think im fucked in the head-

[xadenviolct]

Help me choose the next book on my TBR pile to actually pick up and READ!

I'm currently about 60% or so through Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli and thoroughly enjoying it. I'm also still slowly working through a re-read of Fourth Wing and after I finish that, I'll start the re-read of Iron Flame, but that's just what I read at home when I can fully concentrate and put a whole lotta focus into that (SLOW) re-read.

ANYWAY...

I have a lot of books I want to read, of course. But I have limited down my NEXT choice to the following:

NO SPOILERS, please, for EITHER book. I've had both recommended to me multiple times and they both sound very good.

I just don't know which one gets that "NEXT" spot ;)

[dontdenymeshakespeare]

Battleathon Week Four

My week four wrap-up for Battleathon

[maepolzine]

Post-Move Book Haul & Free Books on Kindle

Sharing the books I purchased after my most recent move and books I got for free recently on Kindle

Prior to moving, I put myself on a book buying ban beyond the books I had already pre-ordered. So, after the move was complete and I go everything all moved in, unpacked, and set up I figured I would allow myself a mini book haul. Especially since I read through most of the books on my physical TBR. Around this same time Amazon was doing a load your kindle sale, so a bunch of books were available…

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Carter Sherman at The Guardian:

In her first speech dedicated exclusively to abortion rights since becoming the presidential nominee, Kamala Harris spoke on Friday afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia, blaming Donald Trump for the abortion bans that now blanket much of the United States. Harris spoke days after news broke that two Georgia mothers died after being unable to access legal abortions and adequate medical care in the state. “Two women – and those are only the stories we know – here in the state of Georgia, died, died, because of a Trump abortion ban,” Harris said. She repeatedly referred to “Trump abortion bans” in the speech. “Suffering is happening every day in our country,” Harris continued. “To those women, to those families – I say on behalf on what I believe we all say, we see you and you are not alone and we are all here standing with you.”

In the weeks since becoming the Democratic nominee for president, Harris has made reproductive rights a central part of her campaign. She has toured the country to highlight the healthcare consequences of the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade, which paved the way for more than a dozen states to ban almost all abortions. On Friday, Harris blamed the former president for Roe’s demise because Trump appointed three of the supreme court justices who overturned the landmark decision. She also also condemned Republicans for repeatedly blocking Senate bills that would have guaranteed a federal right to in vitro fertilization, a popular fertility treatment that had its future cast into doubt after Roe’s overturning. “On the one hand, these extremists want to tell women they don’t have the freedom to end an unwanted pregnancy,” Harris said. “On the other hand, these extremists are telling women and their parents they don’t have the freedom to start a family.” The raucous crowd grumbled loudly at Harris’s words. “Make it make sense!” someone shouted.

Although Joe Biden won Georgia in the 2020 presidential election, becoming the first Democrat in decades to take the state, Democrats seemed unlikely to recapture it until Harris replaced Biden as nominee. Now, Georgia is once again a swing state. Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina and a major Trump surrogate, has said that Trump must win Georgia if he wants to win the White House. Meanwhile, Harris in August embarked on a two-day bus tour of the state and giving her first major network interview there. The deaths of the Georgia mothers, Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, were first reported earlier this week by ProPublica and occurred after Georgia enacted a six-week abortion ban. Georgia’s maternal mortality review committee looked at both women’s cases and deemed their deaths “preventable”, according to ProPublica.

[...] “Under the Trump abortion ban, her doctors could have faced up to a decade in prison for providing Amber the care she needed,” Harris said on Friday. “Understand what a law like this means. Doctors have to wait until the patient is at death’s door before they take action.” Harris met with Thurman’s mother and sisters on Thursday night. “Their pain is heartbreaking,” she said.

During Friday’s speech in Atlanta, Georgia, Vice President and 2024 Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris excoriated Donald Trump for his role in allowing abortion bans to take effect in several states including Georgia and Missouri as a result of appointing three right-wing judicial activists onto SCOTUS to overturn Roe as a result of the Dobbs ruling.

See Also:

HuffPost: Kamala Harris To Women Denied Abortion Care After Roe: 'We See You And You Are Not Alone'

Vox: Kamala Harris and Oprah humanized the consequences of state abortion bans

Abortion, Every Day: Kamala Harris’ Abortion Speech Broke New Ground