#tfmr

[secularprolifeconspectus]

Unpopular opinion: people with anencephaly ought to be born & loved for as long as possible. They deserve palliative care, not murder in the womb. Abortion is not euthanasia.

This little girl is not in agony. She coos and smiles at her mother's touch. She is loved. She wouldn't have known any of that love had she been violently stabbed with a lethal injection and born dead. According to her mom on YouTube she lived for 3 weeks and her family cherished her.

When I say later abortion is not euthanasia, I mean: the children are killed without general anesthesia. We wouldn't even kill a horse or someone on death row this way. Later abortion, even for medical reasons, is horrific violence. The babies are stabbed with an overdose of digoxin or lidocaine. They may be exsanguinated or dismembered alive.

If you want your disabled child to live with dignity and die humanely, with the least suffering possible, then do not abort them. Love them. You will suffer less in the long run knowing you protected them, that you did not pay for their brutal murder.

And for the record, you still have to go through labor when you get a later abortion for fetal anomaly. Unless, of course, you get your child ripped out piece by piece in mangled shreds. The chances of uterine perforation and sepsis from this are extreme.

Disabled children are not "choices". Perinatal hospice is ethical. Murder is not.

Learn more about anencephaly.

For anyone feeling pressured to terminate for medical reasons, I highly recommend

carryingtoterm.org

perinatalhospice.org

benotafraid.net

stringofpearlsonline.org

nowilaymedowntosleep.org

[dragonflylady77]

Happy 18th birthday baby girl. ❤️

I'm getting a tattoo with her name and her month birth flowers (already have the date and the Leo birth flower).

The build-up to that day is always worse than the actual day.

Big hugs to all the mamas who have lost a baby. You are not alone. ❤

[virgoanmaenad]

Just a reminder you can mourn your loss even if you chose to terminate for any reason. You have permission to be sad and mourn.

[ironwilledf-up]

I block pro lifers and this is why.

[transformersmr-hq]

I forgot how to draw

[merit-amm]

Losing a child is the most painful and transforming experience I ever had to go through.

Tomorrow, You would be 24 weeks. It has been six days, since we parted and God knows I am trying to be strong, but oh, these mornings…

And the evenings… when my grief covers me from head to toe like a weighted blanket. When I feel suffocated by the pain.

You know how strong your Mother is. You know how I can handle pain.

But I cannot even fathom, how much pain You would have to live in. And I am really grateful for the option to take Your pain on me.

I am really grateful and proud to even become a Mother to child as powerful as You are. What you accomplished during those five short months You spent down here in our lives is incomprehensible, even for me. You unknowingly gave me strenght which I didn’t even know I had.

Thank You, my deeply beloved son. I hope we will meet again. 🤍

[sineadshinelight]

If I can’t live with you, then I have to live for you, and I will keep your memory alive in the most positive way I know how. Kindness creates a ripple effect, touching lives you don’t even know about. Kindness is good for the mental health of not only the one who receives the kindness, but the giver of kindness also benefits from positive mental health Lets spread kindness 🥰 Repost from @moreandbest10 • I will say your name and tell your story to all who will hear it. I will do good because of you. I will let the world know that you were here. Lives will change for the better because of you. I will not sit quietly. I will not let them forget. You were here. You were mine. Your life has purpose and you matter. My final act of love is keeping your memory alive. #grief #griefjourney #griefsupport #griefawareness #normalizegrief #childloss #infantloss #miscarriage #stillbirth #tfmr #neonatalloss #parentingafterloss #lifeafterloss #grievingmother #babyloss #babylosscommunity #lossmama #heylossmama #bereavedmother #bereavedparents (at Kindness Inspires Kindness) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvUu4aM2r0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lepetitrock]

Make no mistake, end of life care for neonates will be next because they want to punish women for the tragedy of TFMR. They think it's our fault babies aren't always healthy. That's why they want to prolong the suffering and they care not for the pain the neonate is in before they die.

[justanotherbipolarmum]

Here I am in the Day Stay Unit, gowned up, compression socks on and disposable underwear.

This is the hardest day of my life. I hate this.

1 in 600 chance of having one condition and 1 in 3000 of having another but my boy has both conditions and a heart that hasn't developed.

[seaglassparenting]

Available as a sticker, journal, or greeting card ❤️

[secularprolifeconspectus]

Later abortion is not euthanasia: a masterpost.

What – and when – are we talking about? In this post, when I refer to "later abortion", I am specifically referring to elective induced fetal demise (feticide) after 20 weeks since the mother's last missed period (22 weeks gestational age). In other words, intentionally and directly killing a baby, wholly or partly within the womb, near or after the point of development at which they could survive after birth. This is distinguished from early induction, in which the baby's death is not deliberately induced. This is often referred to as "late-term abortion", which is a colloquial misnomer as the late-term of pregnancy is exclusively 41-42 weeks.

Later abortion is not only performed for fetal anomaly or to save the mother.

Who is aborting and being aborted? In her studies (1, 2) of later abortion, pro-choice researcher Katrina Kimport found that the reasons people get later abortions are "remarkably similar" to those who get earlier abortions. Common reasons included financial issues and not knowing they were pregnant earlier. Abortionist Eleanor Drey (3) corroborates that “financial hardship” is a major compelling factor in people seeking later abortions. This means that healthy women abort healthy babies.

Further, because a later abortion can take three days, and due to the risk of uterine perforation, in an emergency medical situation it is typically safer for the mother to have an immediate labor induction. Day 1, the baby is killed and laminaria is inserted to dilate the cervix; day 2, more laminaria is inserted and labor is induced; day 3, the dead baby is delivered or extracted (9). Not to mention, in most of Europe abortion is limited before viability, and this has not prevented mothers in emergent life-threatening situations from receiving necessary medical intervention.

Later abortions do not only take place in hospitals.

Where are later abortions happening? According to AbortionFinder as of Nov. 2024, about 25 facilities in the US offer abortion after 20 weeks, and only eight facilities offer abortion after 28 weeks. Four of those eight are in Washington DC or Maryland. Only two of the eight are hospitals. Policies vary between providers and circumstances about whether or not the baby may be viewed after the procedure. Currently, the cost of an abortion at 28 weeks is $12K.

Later abortions are violent, not peaceful.

How are later abortions performed? In an induction abortion, abortionists typically induce fetal demise prior to the removal of the baby either via lethal injection (poison) or exsanguination (bleeding out) (4). For example, DuPont Clinic prefers injection (more expensive), but Washington Surgi-Clinic uses exsanguination (cheaper). In the US, typically the baby is not anesthetized. The feticide injections may be an overdose of digoxin or lidocaine (5), or potassium chloride. Digoxin may take hours to cause cardiac arrest (6). Horses are not euthanized with lidocaine without anesthesia. And potassium chloride is opposed by the Humane Society (7) and Amnesty International (8). Exsanguination is also opposed by the Humane Society (7). In a dilation and extraction abortion, babies may be directly disarticulated (dismembered) while alive.

Further, there is evidence that the fetus feels pain as early as 12 weeks (10). We even have video of a fetus reacting with expressions of pain to being stabbed with feticide (11). Here’s two fetuses after D&E abortions (12,13). And here’s two fetuses after induction abortions (14,15). And this is a video of a D&E (16).

Later abortion “donations” are baby part sales.

Why are they aborted this way? When later abortions are performed without a feticide injection, it’s sometimes to preserve their remains for research. Abortionists have even admitted to performing modified partial-birth abortions to preserve the major organs, in which the baby is pulled out alive from the cervix except for the head, then the neck is snipped and the brain is sucked out to collapse the skull (17,18). Here’s a fetus after a partial-birth abortion (19).

Women sign (often questionable) consent forms to donate the bodies of their babies to research (26). What they either don’t realize or aren’t told is that the abortion facilities will profit or gain assets from these “donations” (20). Many are also under the impression that their baby’s remains will be used to cure diseases; they would likely be dismayed to learn that their baby’s scalp was, for instance, grafted and grown onto lab rats (21).

Later abortion survivors exist.

A study by the Society for Family Planning found that up to 50% of labor induction abortions without feticide result in live birth (22). Another study by the American College of Gynecologists of abortions without feticide in the second trimester also found a 50% survival rate, but that without life-sustaining care, these babies are unlikely to live beyond a few hours (23). ACOG also published a study that found gestational weeks 20-24 survived at a rate of 21.7% (24). Years 2011-2021 saw 20.8% survive overall. Only 24.5% of survivors were admitted to the NICU and just 5.5% received palliative care. Several survivors have spoken out about their experiences (25).

I will be making a follow-up to this post with research on the alternative to later abortion in cases of fatal fetal anomaly: perinatal hospice and palliative care. Resources regarding this here.

Who Seeks Abortions at or After 20 Weeks?

Is third‐trimester abortion exceptional? Two pathways to abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy in the United States - Kimport

Contextualizing Who has Abortions After the First Trimester - Innovating Education in Reproductive Health

Umbilical cord transection to induce fetal demise prior to second-trimester D&E abortion - PubMed

Transabdominal lidocaine to induce fetal demise: a cohort study - PubMed

Society of Family Planning Clinical Recommendation: Induction of fetal asystole before abortion Jointly developed with the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine - ScienceDirect

Humane Society International: General Statement Regarding Euthanasia Methods for Dogs and Cats

Is there a Humane Way to Execute? – Amnesty International

Induction Abortion

Reconsidering fetal pain - PubMed

The Seasoned Soup — Footage of a 12-week fetus reacting to the lethal...

Ángel – PAAU

Holly – PAAU

Christopher X – PAAU

Phoenix – PAAU

Excerpt from Eclipse of Reason

Texas Planned Parenthood Can “Pull Off A Leg, Or Two” To Hide Partial-Birth Abortions To Sell Fetal Body Parts

Special Report: Partial-Birth Abortion at Planned Parenthood

Harriet – PAAU

Select Investigative Panel  of the Energy & Commerce Committee 

Development of humanized mouse and rat models with full-thickness human skin and autologous immune cells

Labor induction abortion in the second trimester - Contraception

Fetal Survival in Second-Trimester Termination of Pregnancy Without Feticide

Second-trimester abortion and risk of live birth

Abortion Survivors Network

BREAKING: “Viable Nonanomalous” 6-Month-Old Fetuses Sold From Planned Parenthood Abortions to University of California, New Documents Show

[dragonflylady77]

Here in New Zealand, it's nearly 1am on Thursday 17 August.

On Thursday 17 August 2006, at nearly 1am, I had a baby. She was born silent, at 24 weeks. I named her Chloé Isobel Rébecca.

It happened in France, so 12h behind NZ this time of the year, not until nearly 1pm here...

I'll be getting a massage then.

Might bake a cake in the morning.

[panapanapana]

It's people like this who need to look me and my healthy surviving twins in the eyes and say with a straight face and all of their conviction we all should have died instead of just their triplet sister with the lethal brain damage. Because that's what would have happened if not for being able to abort their sister. I love and will always miss my Hannelore, but saving three healthy people while preventing the suffering of one that would die anyway was a fucking no-brainer -- just like my Hannelore was due to the extensive brain damage. Badumtssh.

https://prenatalpartnersforlife.org/

[ironwilledf-up]

Taylor swift 30 day song challenge - Day 3 - A song that makes you sad

I'm tied for two here. Bigger than the whole sky and Ronan.

I had a tfmr at 21 weeks via labour and delivery, sometimes it feels like a cross between a miscarriage and a still birth. BTTWS fits entirely but Ronan feels like how I'd feel had I made the other choice. I play them both when I am having a grief day.

[transformersmr-hq]

Quick question. What alt mode is the fastest in ur continuation?

Short answer: Space shuttles.

Long answer: It depends on circumstances. Details provided under readmore.

To be honest, any altmode can achieve the "fastest" title if they were a speedster-type outlier. However, since that's obviously not the point of the question here, so let's state what's obvious first:

In order to be considered the "fastest altmode," They must have control over their speed and direction (e.g. launching them with orbital railgun doesn't count)

Now then, let's get started.

On land - Hovering type Racers

As I mentioned earlier, Hoverbikes or hovering vehicles are part of the groundframe family. In fact, it's actually considered as a type of beneficial mutation, which means any altmode with wheels has a slim chance of being hatched with thrusters instead.

Naturally, hovercrafts can generate greater speed than their wheeled counterparts as they are relatively free from road condition issues. Adding that with sleek, aerodynamic structure of a racer frame, and you have an ultimate speed demon.

One downside is that, the faster they get, the more unstable they get as they do not have any wheels to keep them firmly on ground when they are trying to make a turn. Sometimes they spin out of control as soon as they hit the curve when they are at their top speed.

On Atmosphere - Seekers

Basically, they are F1s of the sky. The entire species evolved to have maximum SPD, maximum AGI, and minimum of anything else, so there is no way a plain Cessna or Helicopter can ever take them over at Sky race. It's pretty obvious just by how their alt mode looks, honestly.

'But hey, wait a sec! Didn't you mentioned it was the Shuttles that were the fastest? What happened to that?'

Well......

On anywhere else - Space Shuttles

The Seekers may be the fastest on atmosphere, but the space is a vast place with no air friction no gravitational pull and plenty of space to accelerate. Given enough time, Shuttle can and will hurl themselves through the void with almost godzillion times the speed of an average Seeker. That alone would be enough to grant them the title of "fastest altmode."

Besides, the terminal velocity needed to escape Earth's atmosphere is 11.9km/s(~42840km/h). No Seeker would ever dare to challange THAT. This would have made the Shuttles the fastest on atmosphere too, but as I mentioned they can only produce such speed when they are going to Space. Their atmospheric cruising speed is obviously a lot less impressive than those of Seekers.

[duggardata]

So Jessa had an abortion then. She terminated an existing pregnancy because the pregnancy wasn't viable. Not a miscarriage. Of course, she'll never admit to that, but that's what this was. She was given the choice between medication abortion and surgical and she chose surgical.

CW: Pregnancy Loss

Look, I don’t really want to get into this. It’s true that a D&C, which Jessa acknowledged having, can be used for multiple reasons—including for the termination of a pregnancy, viable or no. It’s also routinely used in miscarriage care when the woman’s body doesn’t pass the fetus naturally, and after birth if part of the placenta is retained.

I’ve heard a lot of speculation that Jessa’s baby “still had a heartbeat,” and therefore she had an abortion. First of all, Jessa has explicitly denied this—

Secondly… Even if the fetus did have heartbeat, Jessa made it abundantly clear in her video that the fetus wasn’t viable. To me, it feels incredibly icky and cruel to force the term “abortion” onto the act of termination for medical reasons (TFMR).

I get it. The Duggars are awful. They’ve lobbied hard against abortion. Their views have made it difficult for many, many women to access D&C procedures—even in situations where the fetus isn’t viable. They’ve advocated to take away the right to choose termination for medical reasons. They’re awful. Their views are disgusting. We’re living in a scary, post–Dobbs world, and it sucks.

All that said… Jessa denied TFMR. She said the baby’s heart stopped long before her D&C. And, even if she’s lying, TFMR is a horrible loss and it feels incredibly, incredibly cruel to me to more–or–less rub Jessa’s loss in her face by using the word ‘abortion,’ and thereby insinuate that this was her choice somehow. It wasn’t. Her baby was unwell, such that it couldn’t survive outside the womb. She didn’t choose that. She never would have chosen that. It’s a tragic loss that is entirely out of her control. Smugly saying: “Ha! You had an abortion!” is both untrue, based on what she has shared, and pointless. And I’m not too keen on pointless cruelty towards those who’ve gone through personal tragedy and loss. Even when I vehemently disagree with their politics.

ETA: The fact that she was offered medication or a D&C is irrelevant, and proves nothing as to the fetus’s viability. Both options will empty the womb whether there’s a viable fetus in there with a heartbeat, or one that has already died.