What actually shouldn’t have gotten worse after the arrest… got worse:
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From where the Republicans sit, all stories casting a bad light on them must be called out as being fake. It works to stretch and reinforce their electorate’s outrage at Trump’s loss which fuels everything else down the line.
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What fucking bizarre take.
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The Masters of Gilead would like to assure their base, if they can, that these things simply never happen, that only s------ and w--------- get preggers out of wedlock, because God Almighty simply wouldn’t allow anything else
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Oh, you! Ever the optimist, eh? 
But having your conscience excised is a pre-requisite for GQP membership now, isn’t it?
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Also, his political career has been devoted to elevating and defending Trump, a rapist who brags about assaulting women.
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It’s continuing to get even worse. One of the consequences of the Supreme Court decision that anyone who gave it a moment’s thought knew was coming is that harassment and intimidation of doctors would intensify. And here we are.
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This will get ugly - it poses the question about what to do when the hippocratic oath meets the law**. There must have been other instances previously, but a ludicrous thought experiment might be to ask: what if a state (perhaps whose legislature had been captured by Jehovah’s Fuckwits) made it illegal to have blood transfusions?
(And yeah, really it’s not that ludicrous, in this timeline, is it?)
** In a fantasy world I might like to see national medical authorities (whatever the US equivalent of the UK Medical Register is) actively strike off doctors who do NOT give abortions when there is medical need. Some states might run short of doctors eventually. Said medics could have their licence to practice reinstated once they had relocated to another state.
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I see a flaw in this plan.
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I see many flaws in it. But in my fantasy world, the doctors would all move out, as would all the patients/populace, leaving a few unmedic’d fuckwits alone with their fuckwit legislators - or the patients/populace would stay and vote in a sensible state legislature, STAT, so the doctors could return!
Reality is a bugger, for sure!
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Absolutely. The right wing talking points would have you believe that healthy babies were being aborted at term delivery every day. The fact that this literally never happens is not brought up nearly enough. (And, of course, there was a single doc who did a number of these infanticides, but he is spending the rest of his life in prison. Hardly the sort of thing the right wants to talk about.)
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They have the name Fuentes. This is “evidence” that he’s probably an illegal immigrant in their minds.
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I was literally doing some suppressed screaming over this one myself. (Which is almost as hard on the throat as the more overt kind actually.)
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And if he is? Would it be better with these Republican dipshits if he was part of the girl’s own family, as is most common? I care far more about the actions and the consequences.
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I don’t know if it’s happening, or if it will happen, but it wouldn’t surprise me if doctors, especially OB-GYNs, are leaving states that have banned abortions. Some may stay out of a desire to help women but their lives and ability to practice are being made unnecessarily difficult. Something else we all saw coming is that women in those states are going to have reduced access to lots of forms of life-saving healthcare whether it’s related to pregnancy or not.
This is also why those who claim they’ll allow “exceptions for rape and incest” are making a bullshit argument. Aside from the fact that some states don’t have those exceptions it says that women shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions regarding their own health, which is condescending and misogynistic.
Even in states that do claim to allow those exceptions but have still banned abortion in all other cases they’ve still made it extremely difficult for a woman to get an abortion, even if she can prove she was raped or a victim of incest, which, let’s be blunt, is just rape by a family member.
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The Hippocratic Oath isn’t a required oath of office, but some docs choose to take a form of it. However “I swore an oath that conflicts with the law” is no defence anywhere. Your options are always to either break the oath, or to take the punishment set by law.
The original oath even forbids performing abortion. And some other outdated stuff like offering to teach your tutor’s kids in medicine without charge if they want to learn.
In the broader scope there’s medical ethics, and professional regulation. I saw a statement from the American Paediatrics group, but I’m not hopeful for anything sensible in this domain given America’s history with medical ethics.
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As pediatricians, we are on it, although to be totally honest, since it is not a procedure we do, it doesn’t mean as much as it might. Now, when you get to prescribing contraception, we are absolutely at the front lines of that fight.
One must be cautious with the google machine, though. There is an astroturf organization calling itself “The American College of Pediatricians” which is everything but that.
These guys I hate with a burning passion.
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Y’all thought it couldn’t get any worse, didn’t you?
What could possibly be an even more evil twist at this point?
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