Our country is going to Hell in a Handcart. Everything we count on is cattywampus. BUT, the Democrats have one issue they plan on pummeling Donald Trump and every Republican with and that is abortion. Women in every corner of this great land and of every age, will be forced to give birth, or die trying, to unwanted babies, now that the issue has been returned to the States. Shockingly, this may be a winning issue for the Democrats.
“Pummeling” comes from an unfortunate Politico article “How Biden’s campaign plans to pummel Trump on abortion”:
Joe Biden’s campaign plans to hammer Donald Trump for his role in erasing abortion rights largely by enlisting ordinary American women who have suffered from restrictions on the procedure, elevating their voices in place of the president’s own.
This approach was immediately on display this week in a Biden campaign video featuring the story of a Texas woman released after Trump announced he would defer to state-level abortion laws, some of which impose draconian limits on women and physicians. Biden himself made no appearance in the ad, except to deliver a standard campaign finance disclosure line.
Here is the political advertisement the Dem are using for this first pummeling:
The “Willow’s Box” ad is excruciating. No woman wants to go through this. No husband wants his wife to go through this. The cards on the screen reinforce this evil forced on women:
Because Donald Trump KILLED Roe v. Wade, Amanda was denied standard medical care to prevent infection, an abortion.”
Apparently, she was just sent home with a “good luck with that” after the hospital’s ethics board declined to help her. I had so many problems with the way the ad pummeled heart strings. The ad figuratively killed rational thought. I found a tweet from the American Association of Pro-Life Ob/Gyns. Thank God for them:
Using our patients’ stories for political ends is disgusting. Elective induced abortion is never medically necessary, and pro-life laws do not prevent medical care. Knock it off. https://t.co/XZfezxAy79
— AAPLOG (@aaplog) April 8, 2024
The American Association of Pro-Life Ob/Gyns found three untruths in the Amanda Zurawski ad:
In other words, doctors could have legally, intentionally killed Willow by dismemberment or any other abortion method without legal penalty if Zurawki’s life was deemed to be in danger.
However, there are even more falsehoods in the ad…
LIE #1: Doctors were forced to send Zurawski home
Zurawski and the ad are blaming the overturning of Roe v. Wade for her doctors’ medically negligent failure to provide her with standard care. But doctors were not “forced to send her home.” They chose to. The standard of care for either cervical insufficiency and/or PPROM is not induced abortion.
Standard of care includes a cerclage to close the cervix when applicable and prophylactic antibiotics to prevent infection, among other efforts to stop labor. If necessary, preterm delivery is carried out (not the intentional killing of abortion) when labor cannot be prevented or when doctors see signs of infection. Until that point, the woman should remain under the watchful eyes of a medical team — not be told there’s ‘nothing we can do’ as Zurawski was.
Zurawski said, “It took three days at home until I became sick ‘enough’ that the ethics board at our hospital agreed we could begin medical treatment; three days until my life was considered at risk ‘enough’ for the inevitable premature delivery of my daughter to be performed; three days until the doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals were allowed to do their jobs.” (emphasis added)
Zurawski’s doctors were not prevented from acting to provide her with standard care. Her doctors and the “ethics board” were allowed to “do their jobs,” but they didn’t. Zurawski should be suing them for neglect.
LIE #2: Preterm delivery is an abortion
Zurawski and the ad claim she needed an abortion, but she didn’t need one, nor did she have one.
She said it herself — she underwent a preterm delivery. Preterm delivery, even when induced to save the mother, is not an abortion if the intent of the delivery is not to cause the child’s death. In Zurawski’s case, the intent of delivery was to save her life, not to cause harm or death to Willow.
As AAPLOG has noted, “There is a night and day difference between induced abortion and separating a mother and her unborn child for the purposes of saving a mother’s life (preterm parturition). There are times when separating the mother and her unborn child is necessary to save the life of the mother, even if the unborn child is too premature to live. In those tragic cases, if possible the life of the baby will be attempted to be preserved, and if not possible, the body of the unborn child is treated with respect, recognizing the humanity of the life which is lost in the separation. In contrast, the purpose of an induced abortion is to produce a dead baby.” (emphasis added)
Both Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic list treatment options for cervical insufficiency and PPROM on their websites. Neither mentions abortion or termination of pregnancy as a treatment for these conditions, and Cleveland Clinic states that a cerclage is effective in 90% of cases of cervical insufficiency.
LIE #3: Women who miscarry need abortion
The ad claims that Zurawski had a miscarriage and therefore needed an abortion. This makes no sense.
A miscarriage occurs when a preborn child dies naturally in the womb. Sometimes a woman’s body doesn’t deliver the baby’s body quickly enough and doctors will offer to carry out a D&C procedure or give the woman misoprostol to remove the baby’s deceased remains. In a miscarriage, the baby has already died, so these treatment options are not considered abortions.
Even though these same methods are often used to intentionally end a child’s life in an induced abortion, removing the body of a child who has died naturally in the womb is not legally considered an abortion and is not prohibited by law.
In fact, no woman who has experienced a miscarriage or gone into preterm labor or whose baby has died naturally late in pregnancy has undergone an induced abortion to deliver that child. And it’s cruel and entirely false to suggest that they have.
Nothing was preventing Zurawski’s doctors from providing her with standard medical care or from delivering Willow when necessary — except, perhaps, for their own self-centered negligence.
I am sorry that was such a long blockquote.
Finally, the reason why I think this particular pummeling might work was illustrated at Book Club last night in West Knoxville. We are a group of educated, White women. We have been together for a long time. I thought I knew them. Last night, Book Club opened with about eight of the ten women emotionally bereft because abortion is not currently readily available. None of these women is likely to turn up pregnant, in any event. Here are the basics of the Tennessee abortion law from the Tennessean:
The so-called trigger ban is the Tennessee ban on nearly all abortions that was triggered by the Supreme Court ruling this summer that effectively overturned Roe v. Wade.
The 2019 state law, designed for that eventuality, makes performing an abortion a felony. The law provides no exceptions for cases of incest or rape.
Doctors performing abortions on women in order to save their lives could, in theory, be subject to arrest and criminal charges. Though the state law allows them to use that reason as a defense in any such case against them.
Women who seek illegal abortions would not be subject to criminal prosecution under the law.
It doesn’t really matter. What shocked me is that with whom women I have had such fellowship for years could believe that elective abortion is such a viable option. I thought it was just blue-haired, nose ring wearing, flaming Liberal women.
I am still in a state of shock. We need to be very careful. Not give in to the pro-baby killing crowd. Just be careful. Color my world: rocked.
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