She Was Told Her Twin Sons Wouldn't Survive. Texas Law Made Her Give Birth Anyway

[SweetSue92]

And?

The article itself says she lived surrounded by her boyfriend's family that provided free childcare. Yet, it took THREE MONTHS to arrange an appointment, time off work and daycare? No. Sorry, no.

That's what these articles always do: the mothers who need late abortions are always, ALWAYS victims of meany-meany Republicans who want to take late abortion away when in reality, these people's own ignorance and laziness prevented it from happening.

And it's not like this woman didn't know how far along she was and what it meant. She was already the mother of THREE children: two by some other guys and one by her current boyfriend.

 

[SweetSue92]

No. But it cut in to her and her Partner's chance of being able to birth another healthy child....

What the over powering govt did to her and partner is unconscionable.

This is a woman who took three MONTHS--knowing that she had a medically fragile pregnancy--to arrange "an appointment, time off work and child care".

Mind you, they moved close to his family because they provided free babysitting. This woman had a medically fragile pg and she needed three MONTHS to do all this? An appt and time off work? Three weeks is barely excusable.

Stop making women the helpless, hapless victim in all these circumstances.

 

[Grumblenuts]

The article itself says she lived surrounded by her boyfriend's family that provided free childcare. Yet, it took THREE MONTHS to arrange an appointment, time off work and daycare? No. Sorry, no.

That's what these articles always do: the mothers who need late abortions are always, ALWAYS victims of meany-meany Republicans who want to take late abortion away when in reality, these people's own ignorance and laziness prevented it from happening.

And it's not like this woman didn't know how far along she was and what it meant. She was already the mother of THREE children: two by some other guys and one by her current boyfriend.

Way to blame the victims. What the article actually says:

When Miranda found out she was pregnant again in February, it felt like a blessing to be back in Texas. She and Levi always planned to have another child, but not quite so soon.

But as Miranda would soon learn, rural Texas is a difficult place to bring new life into the world.

Early on, she felt an unfamiliar, gnawing anxiety about this pregnancy, but she struggled to get an appointment with an obstetrician. When the nurse practitioner said she might be having twins, she didn’t want to wait for a follow-up appointment. She went to the emergency room in Texarkana, half an hour away, where she learned there were two babies, and they might be conjoined or “mono mono,” developing in the same amniotic sac.

“We couldn’t get a straight answer, and it was just a run-around game,” she said.

To be sure, she’d have to go to a specialist three hours away in Allen. By the time she got the appointment, Levi found time off work, they coordinated travel with Angela and figured out child care, it was May and Miranda was four months pregnant.

Already knew she was pregnant in February. Three months "to get an appointment with an obstetrician." March, April, May..

Does "SweetSue" really give a FF about these people? About women? Of course not. Who could have guessed?

 

[koshergrl]

Liberals that advocate the murdering of children as a birth control method are unfit to be called humans.

They're negative eugenics ideologues...nothing more. Anti human rights ghouls.

 

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[SweetSue92]

Way to blame the victims. What the article actually says:

Already knew she was pregnant in February. Three months "to get an appointment with an obstetrician." March, April, May..

Does "SweetSue" really give a FF about these people? About women? Of course not. Who could have guessed?

It NEVER takes three months to get an appt with an OB when you have a high-risk pg. Stop infantilizing women. This woman got pg, had news that her pg was very high risk, and then it took her THREE. MONTHS. to arrange "an appt, time off work and child care".

Then she had to have a late term delivery. Well NO KIDDING, that's what happens when you wait three months and you're pregnant. Has nothing to do with whether I "give an F" about this person. Actions have consequences.

 

[mudwhistle]

No. But it cut in to her and her Partner's chance of being able to birth another healthy child....

What the over powering govt did to her and partner is unconscionable.

Getting a C-Section doesn't stop people from having children.
It just makes it difficult to have another one thru natural child-birth.
However, having an abortion can often render women unable to have children.

 

[whitehall]

Quite a biography the Kos created for this story. Of course they fail to mention the possibility that the unborn twins might have survived or how far the pregnancy had gone on before the mother decided to end it. Most mothers would have been willing to take that chance.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

The nutty pro lifers seem very uncomfortable in this thread. They know that inhumane policies caused this but its not a vote winner.

 

[martybegan]

The nutty pro lifers seem very uncomfortable in this thread. They know that inhumane policies caused this but its not a vote winner.

The abortion rights people should lobby to have the law amended to include viability as an exception.

But what they want is total revocation of the law and abortion on demand until 1 second before birth.

Who's the extremists now?

 

[koshergrl]

Sawed through her SCAR TISSUE from 3 previous c section surgeries.

So medical malpractice? How does that give ghouls the right to coerce women into endorsing negative eugenics? Explain how medical malpractice is fixed by killing dependent humans? Are we just torturing, butchering and killing the victims these days instead of addressing the problem?

In the case of abortion the problem is pro abort doctors, I guess.

 

[koshergrl]

The nutty pro lifers seem very uncomfortable in this thread. They know that inhumane policies caused this but its not a vote winner.

State endorsed abortion is negative eugenics.

 

[marvin martian]

Cool story.

Too bad it's a lie.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

The abortion rights people should lobby to have the law amended to include viability as an exception.

But what they want is total revocation of the law and abortion on demand until 1 second before birth.

Who's the extremists now?

Did you find that link I asked you for ? You have been very quiet about it since I handad you your arse.

 

[martybegan]

Did you find that link I asked you for ? You have been very quiet about it since I handad you your arse.

No, I decided to Mokusatsu you because you lost and never admitted it.

 

[koshergrl]

State endorsed abortion is negative eugenics.

Actually, abortion period is negative eugenics

 

[mudwhistle]

Too bad it's a lie.

So was Russian collusion, Jan 6th, the Mar-a-lago raid, Trump supposedly tampering with the Georgia election, as well as two impeachments. Pretty much everything is based on fabrications, as well as the fact that Biden is actually an active POTUS in full control of the White House.

 

[miketx]

Miranda Michel’s eyes popped open on the operating table, panic gripping her body. Was she too late?

Doctors had said her twins might only survive two or three minutes. She didn’t know if they’d already been born, how much time had passed, if she had missed it entirely, if they were already gone.

During the two-hour surgery, as doctors sawed through scar tissue from three previous C-sections, Miranda tried to fight the sedation, waking in alarm, then slipping back to sleep after her partner and mother-in-law assured her the babies were still safe inside her.

Miranda’s prognosis was as clear today as when she first heard it, four months ago: a zero percent chance of viability, for either twin. But Texas’ new abortion laws, which make no exception for lethal fetal anomalies, required Miranda to carry this pregnancy through to the bitter end.

She was told her twin sons wouldn’t survive. Texas law made her give birth anyway

By Eleanor Klibanoff and Shelby Tauber The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Miranda Michel’s eyes popped open on the operating table, panic...

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Such fine people.

Too bad you weren't aborted.

 

[Stann]

Miranda Michel’s eyes popped open on the operating table, panic gripping her body. Was she too late?

Doctors had said her twins might only survive two or three minutes. She didn’t know if they’d already been born, how much time had passed, if she had missed it entirely, if they were already gone.

During the two-hour surgery, as doctors sawed through scar tissue from three previous C-sections, Miranda tried to fight the sedation, waking in alarm, then slipping back to sleep after her partner and mother-in-law assured her the babies were still safe inside her.

Miranda’s prognosis was as clear today as when she first heard it, four months ago: a zero percent chance of viability, for either twin. But Texas’ new abortion laws, which make no exception for lethal fetal anomalies, required Miranda to carry this pregnancy through to the bitter end.

She was told her twin sons wouldn’t survive. Texas law made her give birth anyway

By Eleanor Klibanoff and Shelby Tauber The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Miranda Michel’s eyes popped open on the operating table, panic...

www.dailykos.com

Such fine people.

This was a crime , the state of Texas should be sued for a billion dollars. That would be the best way to tell them they are CRIMINALS !

 

[badger2]

This is not medical science. Where are the terms used in the coroner's report? In the physician's report? Future Texas pregnancies should use professional diagnostic terms for cases such as this.