It’s white voters in the South, they’ll keep voting for anyone who promises to keep those people away from them and their kids. Voting for politicians that actually produce results that help improve their quality of life pales in comparison to banning books that supposedly turn kids queer/promising to keep drugs out…

Do these dipshits that “dare” the police or military to take their guns realize they wouldn’t last five minutes if this actually happened?

Wah!!!! I swear Republicans are some of the biggest crybabies.

I don’t know why I’m even wading into this, but hi, OB/Gyn here. This sounds like an absolutely horrible situation and I feel so bad for this family - having been in many shoulder dystocias (thankfully, all of which ended with minor injuries at worst), I can vividly picture this truly horrific experience. But as…

I find that hard to believe, even after you providing a source, but I can accept the point about criminalizing use thwarting prenatal care.

Yanking, definitely not. But gently pulling, sometimes. Both forceps (curved metal clamps) and vacuum-assisted deliveries can be done by skilled practitioners, but nowadays difficult deliveries generally go to c-section. Problem is, most doctors don’t have the training and experience to work with forceps nowadays...…

Heads are gunna roll

Yeah, I know babies don’t have a ton of blood, but I feel like there would be a lot of blood. And screaming nurses.

This sounds like something out of a horror movie. I would like to think no licensed medical professional would do something so outrageously harmful. But as we know, they can be killers too.

Which makes it more weird because she’s apparently been practicing for nearly twenty years

I’m not disputing that BIPOC Women statistically have worse outcomes in our medical system, but I think we should consider that this case might be vastly more about the the poor judgment and gross negligence of one particular doctor, if only because Dr. Tracey St. Julian is herself a Black woman.

most decapitations are internal. the skull is separated from the spine but it’s not rolling around on the floor or anything. No clue about this case

Dictionaries reflect the way people use words; they are not authorities that dictate how a word gets to be used. Using the word ‘literally’ to mean ‘not literally’ robs us of the ability to express an important concept, no matter if enough people do it to result in it appearing in the dictionary or not. So I’m all in…

Probably disownment for causing people to see weakness in his bloodline or some dumbassed reason. The dude is terrified of somehow not showing him a some kind of he-man (remember the top-gun commercials takeoffs and how vigorously he defended his images to everyone going they were utterly cornball?). Dude is just that…

Did you know that the LITERAL definition of “literally” now includes when it is “used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true”?

Mannnnn. Hardcore Conservative Republicans are just weird folks.

In another discussion, someone told me Ron’s best bet was Trump having a heart attack and dying...which, at this point, I think he’d still lose to him.

This is as clear an exampe of the Kinsley gaffe as you’ll ever see. By acting like DeSantis was over-exerting himself by picking up the kids while his wife was dealing with cancer it reveals the Mad Men Era lifestyle they’re leading where the wife’s life-threatening illness is more worrisome not because she may…

And the best part is, he recognized them almost immediately.

As if the recipient has any bearing? Non consent is non consent. Full stop.