A Woman Was Denied Medication for Being of ‘Childbearing Age.’ She Just Sued the Hospital
Tara Rule says her doctor in upstate New York was “determined to protect a hypothetical fetus" instead of helping her treat debilitating pain.
Christian fundamentalism is really getting out of hand.
Getting? They control half the Senate and have a super majority in the supreme court.
SCOTUS is also bizarrely specifically a Catholic majority, despite being less than 1/4th of the US population.
What a goddamn Clusterfuck. Several people should lose their license here
It's all about turning women into property that can be controlled.
Rule’s case shows how the notion of fetal personhood—an ideology that regards embryos as separate people with rights at odds with the pregnant person’s—can be taken even further, said Dana Sussman, deputy executive director at Pregnancy Justice (which isn’t working on Rule’s case). “What we’re seeing is how this ideology can extend beyond pregnancy itself—the idea that if you can even become pregnant, then you can no longer make decisions about your own body or access medical care,” Sussman told Jezebel.
The poor woman is already taking anti-rejection meds and dealing with what comes with that ON TOP of the issues shes trying to get treated AND shitty doctors trying to police her body. Jesus...
that has to be the most enshitified website I’ve used in a while
that website started with cookie bullshit, wants me to download an app and then makes me click a link to see the article but starts with ads of other ‘content’
it also doesn’t really format the actual article separately and I read part of their bullshit at end
god damn mobile internet is shit without adblock
Ok. Does anyone else think the thumbnail makes her look like Elisabeth Moss?
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tw: sexual violence, forced birth ::: spoiler spoiler Soon they'll tying people down to tables, assaulting people, and forcing them to give birth. Fascism is in full swing and is only going to accelerate from here. Constant grown and the insatiable thirst for power means that the rich and powerful demand babies to turn into coerced workers. More and more people are going to be forced to become pregnant and give birth. These horrors are going to be more and more normalized. This isn't ok. :::
