Lawrence: Republican men who write abortion bans don't care about the life of the mother - The Last Word - MSNBC

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New reporting reveals the deaths of two pregnant women were preventable if not for Georgia’s abortion ban. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details why Republican men who write “fake exceptions in their abortion bans are lying in legislative language,” exceptions that Republican politicians like Trump use as a “rhetorical crutch.” - Aired on 09/18/2024.

[wnylib]

1. Republican lawmakers and courts are murdering women in the US.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. That's sure what it sounds like to me!!!

These "legal" decisions are made by those with no medical training and their victims are those who they will never know - meanwhile, these children they claim to care about are forced to grow up without mothers and families are devastated.

[wnylib]

3. So much for MAGAs being a family values party.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Reminds me of a story told by Rep. Madeleine Dean on one of the news shows

She couldn't help getting a little choked up talking about her mother-in-law who grew up without a mother. Her mother-in-law had been the youngest of six when her mother got pregnant again. And her mother was told that the baby would be stillborn and that she would not survive the birth - and that's exactly what happened. The year was 1930.

You'd think that since we've made such progress with medical care since then fewer women would be dying today, but Republicans have turned back the clock.

[wnylib]

5. There were so many cases of difficult pregnancies that cost women their lives in the past

and will again if the anti women laws are allowed to remain.

My maternal grandmother was 10 years old when her mother died of complications with her 11th pregnancy. I don't know the details, only that there were "complications." So my grandmother's 13 year old sister, as the oldest girl, took over responsibility for the household, with my 10 year old grandmother to help.

In the late1970s, I received a phone call at work from my boss's neighbor. She was with his wife, who was around 8 weeks pregnant and in severe pain. She had called an ambulance. The boss was out of the office at a worksite so we sent people out to locate him (before cell phones).

She did not know until then that it was an ectopic pregnancy. The tube with the embryo had burst. She barely survived and was afraid to get pregnant again. But her doctor said that they would monitor her carefully if she conceived again and would immediately abort an embryo if it developed outside of the uterus. She eventually was able to carry to term. That kind of option would not be available today.