Month: July 2022

This map shows the current availability of abortions in the United States.  Obviously many late term surgical abortions without any medical necessity are in fact happening in the states that allow it.  (But for some reason according to a gynecologist Debbie McNabb it is a “complete falsehood” that abortions up until the moment of birth are happening in the states with no gestation limit.)

I saw this dishonest article on the Yahoo website that originated on the “Business Insider” website that makes numerous false claims about the abortion issue, saying that “abortion on demand” and “abortion up until birth” are “terrible lies” and “complete falsehoods.”

The article interviews a retired gynecologist Debbie McNabb who said that medical emergencies may prompt a doctor to abort a fetus for the mother’s safety, but “it’s not the same as abortion that’s allowed up to the moment of birth.”  However her claim is not true at all, in some states abortion is allowed up until the moment of birth, where it is allowed whenever the mother simply wishes it to be done.

She then dismissed the idea that any woman would do that on a whim and even said it is a complete falsehood:

“Like, ‘oh, I’m going to file my fingernails and smoke a cigarette, and then I’ll go in when I’m in labor and have an abortion.’  That’s just crazy, but that’s what the Republicans are saying, ‘Abortion up to the moment of birth’ is a complete falsehood.”

The article then gives CDC statistics saying that about 80% of abortions happen before 9 weeks gestation, and about 93% happen at before 13 weeks gestation.

It is true that later surgical abortions and partial-birth abortions aren’t as common, but it is certainly a lie to say that it is a “complete falsehood” that women don’t have such abortions on a whim.  There are a lot of crazy people out in the world, especially in the states that allow late term abortions.

Most pro-choice activists want late term abortions to be allowed in cases that are just for the sake of convenience.  For example, in 2021 the Democrats attempted to pass legislation known as the “Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act,” which imposes on-demand abortion until birth, removes nearly all pro-life protections for the unborn, and abolishes laws preventing late-term abortions.

Personally I support the availability of morning-after pills if they are taken in the presence of a doctor, and the availability of later surgical abortions for legitimate medical reasons.

The end of the article warns about supposed consequences of voting for Republicans in the upcoming election, saying that Republicans intend to write legislation declaring fertilized eggs as persons and instituting a nation-wide abortion ban.  Unfortunately, perhaps many of such candidates will actually have such an agenda.  Since the same political Establishment controls all sides, obviously such an extreme agenda would be a calculated move on its part in order the stifle the potential of a massive exodus of Democrat voters over to the Republican side that would happen otherwise.  See this article talking about such issues.

I wasn’t paying much attention to the abortion issue previously because I assumed that it is one that is well-covered due to it having large amounts of advocates on both sides.

I also made a somewhat similar assumption about Covid and vaccines, where I assumed that since that issue isn’t even a matter of a “difference of opinion” but rather just the “accuracy of the facts” which can easily be clarified— combined with the fact that there isn’t even anything that is non-PC about communicating about issues with it— and the fact that even the official government sources quietly detail the truth of the actual non-severity of the Covid virus and the uselessness and the harmfulness of the vaccines— as well as the situation of enormous amounts of people being reported to be harmed by the vaccines— that it would all naturally lead to people doing something about the situation since there are eight billion people on the Earth and it effects everyone.  However, amazingly that has not been the case, although many people have been at least reporting about the situation.  (And like I mentioned before, I suspect that the harm that is reported to be caused by the vaccines may be often somehow a hoax, because I cannot imagine how people would continue to allow that to happen otherwise.  At least I hope it is a hoax.)  See these articles for more information about Covid and the associated vaccines.

I saw this meme yesterday, which led to a me thinking of a concept of an “abortion court” that is comprised of a panel of doctors who would decide if an abortion can be allowed to happen or not (at least for later-term surgical abortions.)  That way, abortions could happen in the rare cases of women needing them for legitimate medical reasons, and it would not allow non-legitimate reasons being used as a loophole such as “she is depressed because of the pregnancy,” for example.  The proceedings of the panels should then also be made available for scrutiny by people in the local communities.

Obviously many other people must have had this idea as well, so I’m surprised that I’ve never heard of it before.  Why haven’t large amounts of people already been advocating for such a solution since it would undoubtedly be a very effective solution to the problem?

___

 

Also speaking of vaccines and memes, many people might be familiar with this meme of a distressed woman and a cat.  I always assumed that the image was chosen because she was upset about something ridiculous, such as due to someone “misgendering” someone or something, and I also thought the meme was funny because it has a picture of a cat sitting at a plate of vegetables.

However, the reality of the meme is that she is upset about a serious situation related to her ex-husband who is now deceased, therefore it is inappropriate for the image to be used in such a manner.