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You don’t support subjecting women who suffer miscarriages to intrusive investigations, but you think that police can find probable cause by looking at a woman’s bank records and internet search history. How is the state getting that info without an intrusive investigation?
Cornell won’t have to worry about rape accusations next year when no one wants to enroll in their school.
BREAKING: Cornell bans fraternity parties in wake of gang rape allegation and says the state police will investigate campus sex crimes. apnews.com/article/cornell-r…
Some of the men at Cornell took advantage of Jane Doe in ways they should have known would end up hurting her even while not acting illegally.
These dudes though, Chi Phi frat bros who wanted to snort cocaine out of a woman’s anus - I’m judging you for being real weird.
Lethal injection is cruel and unreliable. Bring back the firing squad and guillotine. They are quicker and more reliable. They are also gruesome, but it is already gruesome for the state to kill someone. At least it would be honest.
NEW, CHRISTA PIKE: Pike’s attorneys are detailing Tennessee’s “botched” attempt to execute her, and the allegations are🤯
In a new filing with the Sixth Circuit, Pike’s lawyers say the execution team struggled to find a vein for over two hours and used numerous different needles before administering pentobarbital. According to the filing:
-Pike allegedly remained conscious and continued moving after the drug was administered.
-The execution team then injected her with a second syringe of pentobarbital. She still did not die.
-Her attorneys say the entire execution process lasted more than two hours as they filed emergency motions in multiple courts seeking to stop it.
-The filing alleges that before the prison called an ambulance, attorneys for Tennessee argued TDOC had NO obligation to provide Pike with life-saving medical care.
-Pike was ultimately transported to a hospital, where her attorneys said she remained alive when the notice was filed Oct. 1.
The filing comes after the Sixth Circuit initially stayed Pike’s Sept. 30 execution so it could consider her legal arguments, only for the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate that stay hours later. And Pike’s federal case is not over: her attorneys told the appeals court that because she survived…she still has a “concrete stake” in the unresolved legal issues.
All calendars should have Monday starts. I would like to see my weekend together instead of split up. Please and thank you!
Dealing with pregnancy loss is hard. Some people protect themselves emotionally by conceptualizing themselves as “only a little pregnant,” so when the loss comes, it doesn’t feel as real. The pregnancy was real though, and it ended, and it’s awful.
Pregnancy tests draw a misleading, somewhat arbitrary, binary between a state of being pregnant and not being pregnant. You can be kind of pregnant, a little bit pregnant, or almost pregnant, or maybe pregnant, and still test positive for pregnancy. Pregnancy tests, particularly at-home urine tests, capture a moment in time at which an embryo has implanted and is interfacing with the uterus in some way. “We define how we understand the beginning of pregnancy based on this snapshot, but such a freeze-frame contains limited information,” Apoorva Tadepalli writes. Read more about the difficult task of determining when pregnancy actually begins: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Q9…
She will almost assuredly lose, the bio parents will get custody of baby Rumi. She refused to kill him, she should be applauded for that. But his parents are treating his heart condition now. It’s time she drops her bid for custody.
No court should award financial penalties because a surrogate refused to abort. Not all contracts are legally enforceable. Public policy should make this explicit when it comes to surrogacy contracts.
If human rights come from our ability to exercise human reason, then newborns don’t have human rights as they don’t yet have the ability to reason. If it comes from our future capacity to reason, then you’ve just made a prolife argument: a fetus has the same future capacity too.
She was terrified of not being able to get the treatment she needed for miscarriage and then she got the treatment she needed and her doctors carefully rather than negligently explained the process to her, and this is held up as proof people can’t get treatment for miscarriage.
Spoke with a woman last night who recently had a miscarriage in Georgia. She was terrified of not being able to get the treatment she needed. Said her female doctor worded her treatment plan very carefully and she could tell everyone was on edge in the process.
Personally, I think a woman would have to be crazy to have a pregnancy in a state like Georgia where our legislature’s ridiculous heartbeat bill is putting women’s lives in danger and making pregnancy high risk even for people who want kids.
Now when someone you love has a miscarriage, they get to wonder if you actually empathize with them or if what you really think is that they’re crazy for caring about losing a “half-ounce fetus with no consciousness or self-awareness.”
Georgia’s definition of abortion: intentionally ending a pregnancy with knowledge the child will die.
Inducing labor before viability for medical emergency is a legal abortion.
Other pro-life people: that’s not an abortion.
Me: I think I’m going to lose my mind.
