Fraught For The Day

Roe, Roe, Roe Your Vote!

August 3, 2022

Hey, remember when Ratpublicans were caterwauling, hair-on-fire about the “Death Panels” that Barack Obama was creating as part of his Heritage Foundation/Ratpublican/Mitt Romney plan ultimately dubbed “Obamacare? Naturally, they made this shit up in order to frighten people away from something so many Americans desperately needed, and overwhelmingly wanted, just as long as it was called the Affordable Care Act during polling. Whatever the psychotic Ratpublican fever dream whipped up as a death panel, all that was proposed was coverage for counseling those facing end-of-life decisions.

As will come as absolutely no surprise, we are getting real death panels. And guess who is preparing to roll them out. Good guess. It’s anti-choice Ratpublican sadists, who are generally fine with women dying, but are being forced to maintain at least some limits or at least a façade on their misogyny and death fetishism.

According to Slate:

After Roe's fall, ethics committees are taking on a new responsibility: determining whether a pregnant patient suffering a medical emergency may lawfully obtain an abortion. This task is actually a throwback to the 1960s and early 1970s, when states required hospitals to use "abortion committees" that decided when a pregnancy was dangerous enough to merit termination.

Abortion committees my ass. These are real, live, fucking DEATH PANELS. They will be purposed with deciding who is to die – the mother or the fetus. These committees…I mean DEATH PANELS will determine if the mother is sufficiently at risk of death – whatever the fuck that means – to terminate the pregnancy or elsewise, to watch the mother either suffer-but-survive or die, if their Magic 8-Ball was insufficiently clairvoyant to predict the mother’s demise.

This Just In…

Voters in Kansas surprised pundits with a massive turnout to decisively squash an attempt to completely illegalize abortion in the Sunflower State. Hopefully this bodes well for the forces of freedom and sanity in November’s midterms.

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