I didn't research it further though because it didn't affect my vote. But it makes sense to me that there's a world of difference between "the letter of…
I didn't research it further though because it didn't affect my vote. But it makes sense to me that there's a world of difference between "the letter of the law says this thing definitely won't happen" and "this thing definitely won't happen."
We live in a low-trust, low-information environment, and you have to have blinders on to think it doesn't apply to both sides. I just have to take a look at my Boomer mother's Facebook feed to see how much conservative misinformation is out there. Most people are not savvy consumers of information, and I don't believe it's time to suspend the franchise for that large majority of the population.
So for a woman who has a "legal, safe, rare" or mildly pro-life mindset, the rational move would be to conclude that pro-life laws MIGHT negatively affect her healthcare. And, rationally, based on her existing values, that chance is enough to be opposed to those pro-life laws.
I think if the pro-life political movement doesn't want that to be true, it needs to hit this talking point much harder than it already did, and it needs to craft laws that put an over-abundance of protections in those laws for miscarriages, etc.
Assuming the woman in the article is telling the truth, which is never an assumption I start with when dealing with pro abortion advocates, her doctor was committing malpractice and should be prosecuted for it. This is unsurprising given the serious ethical problems with the medical industry. I am surprised they haven't intentionally killed a woman yet to make her a martyr for the cause. Given the current political environment, who do you think is going to prosecute this doctor for removing a miscarriage? Planned Parenthood and other pro abortion organizations are fundamentally deceitful and dishonest, they want restrictions watered down and gutted to make them ineffective. We will have to agree to disagree on whether or not the vast majority of our low information population should be voting. It is certainly not what the framers of our government intended.
My understanding is that some of these things reported have actually happened. E.g. this article:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/health/doctors-weigh-litigation-miscarriage-care/index.html
I didn't research it further though because it didn't affect my vote. But it makes sense to me that there's a world of difference between "the letter of the law says this thing definitely won't happen" and "this thing definitely won't happen."
We live in a low-trust, low-information environment, and you have to have blinders on to think it doesn't apply to both sides. I just have to take a look at my Boomer mother's Facebook feed to see how much conservative misinformation is out there. Most people are not savvy consumers of information, and I don't believe it's time to suspend the franchise for that large majority of the population.
So for a woman who has a "legal, safe, rare" or mildly pro-life mindset, the rational move would be to conclude that pro-life laws MIGHT negatively affect her healthcare. And, rationally, based on her existing values, that chance is enough to be opposed to those pro-life laws.
I think if the pro-life political movement doesn't want that to be true, it needs to hit this talking point much harder than it already did, and it needs to craft laws that put an over-abundance of protections in those laws for miscarriages, etc.
Assuming the woman in the article is telling the truth, which is never an assumption I start with when dealing with pro abortion advocates, her doctor was committing malpractice and should be prosecuted for it. This is unsurprising given the serious ethical problems with the medical industry. I am surprised they haven't intentionally killed a woman yet to make her a martyr for the cause. Given the current political environment, who do you think is going to prosecute this doctor for removing a miscarriage? Planned Parenthood and other pro abortion organizations are fundamentally deceitful and dishonest, they want restrictions watered down and gutted to make them ineffective. We will have to agree to disagree on whether or not the vast majority of our low information population should be voting. It is certainly not what the framers of our government intended.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/23/pro-life-ob-gyn-dispels-the-most-common-lies-about-abortion-miscarriage-and-saving-the-life-of-a-mother/