Jesus. That's almost as dark as the reality of things.
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The comparison for forced birthers is a fraction of a percent to the amount of abortions procured year to year. I hate it, but they're at least somewhat logically consistent there. Still reduces the quality of life for those that survive forced pregnancies drastically and risks permanent bodily harm. That's where the hypocrisy shows on how much they value life imo. Raise them to suffer cuz "it's God's plan."
JFC this is horrifying and heartbreaking. But that's the reality for women in Republican-ruled U.S. states, they are being denied health care. The cruelty is intentional.
Pro-Life!!!
We're so Pro-Life that we'll risk your health and even let you die!
And if you even attempt to seek medical care for this we'll kill you and the provider!
BECAUSE WE'RE SO PRO-LIFE
They are anti-women
They want live babies who grow up to be dead soldiers.
Texas has over a 50% increase in maternal fatality rates.
Quit reminding me I need to leave this place.
We all do/should. I don't know if it has gotten worse or if I have just started to realize how bad it actually is but, this state sucks in a lot of ways.
from 2 to 3 or from 100 to 150?
because one of them might as well be statistically insignificant
Edit: You can downvote me all you want, but the burden of proof lies with the person making the statement, not with everyone else reading it. so fuck right off.
Here's an article with a graph. Given that the figures are measured per 100,000 live births, one would need to find how many births occurred in the state of Texas in the years graphed. I was able to find that exact figure for 2022 in a document from the CDC (on page 8) which comes out to 389,533. Since the overall Texas maternal mortality rate was about 28.5 per 100k births for that year (per the news article), the total number of mortalities would have been about 110.
If you want I could go find the figure for earlier years as well, but this should serve as a general ballpark the numbers are in. Keep in mind that the maternal mortality rate only factors in live births, so does not include any pregnancy complications involving an unviable fetus.
So many that there are statistics grouped by race and counted as "deaths per 10,000 live births"
It looks like its something like 135 ish per year to 210 ish per year (its like 407 over a 3 year period) in texas with a dramatic increase in pregnancy-related fatalies among white and black women. Note that the avg increase over the same time nationwide is something like 11% (other states also implemented bans) so this is possibly wholly explainable with abortion bans.
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Deservedly so
I forget that the original was also terribly sad, but my brain only processes it as a meme now.
Oh fuck that's good. Oh man, there needs to be a word to describe something like this. Where it's brilliant but deeply upsetting troubling and realistic at the same time.
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Do we have a community around culture jamming yet? We need this.
Thank you for sharing. That's a rich article for topic hopping
Useless. It's like giving a dead man medicine.
I love that sort of stuff.
Especially if it involves illegally replacing billboard ads.
Irreverent?
Flippant?
Pretty hard to "think of the children," like Republicans keep demanding we do, when there are no children to give.
They're erect when they think of children.
Is that why they want more children to be born? 🤔
They just said "think about the children", not "help the children", or "feed the children", or "protect the children".
Just think about them. In which manner? It's up to your liking and preferences.
While you're thinking about them, throw in some prayers too.
Jesus Christ, Lemmy.
Jesus Christ,
LemmyChristofascists.FTFY. It's not Lemmy's fault that that's what's happening IRL!
"is this a red state?" is the "is this loss?" of real life
Oof.
Did CAD publish that himself? No, right?
No.
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How the fuck will this reach people who believe the government is controlled by Jews who employ space lasers and drag queens?
Not having words helps.
Tell them less (fewer) abortions are exactly what the black trans community want the most.
But honestly, just start throwing southern preachers who promote politics from the pulpit in prison, as dense and arrogant as they are, they'll get the message eventually.
Just throw all of them into prison Stalin-style. Religion never deserved to be protected as a right.
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It's loss, but micro
Micro dosing loss
This was almost my Mom in 1980. She was bleeding out due to a complication from pregnancy. If the doctors hadn't performed an emergency abortion she'd have died, and I'd never have lived. Abortions save lives.
Sheesh 😬
B^(
I can't believe how effective this is at tapping into our understanding of what's supposed to happen in this meme and applying it to what's actually happening in the real world. The title tells you what it's going to be and even still the message hits hard out of left field. This is how you get a point across.
Not in Kansas (thanks state supreme court)
Funny and horrifying.
This is bad and you should feel bad.
How dare you take the most out of pocket and tone deaf comic and make it a heart breaking political piece?
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I don't get why I ever liked that comic.
I mean I still see comics from time to time from his that are amusing.
At this point I kind of just accept that all long running comics/web comics have some absolute awful arcs/panels. I think I assume it just comes with having to come up with content daily and they probably can't spend a lot of time thinking about it?
