and “thoughts”, don’t forget “thoughts”

This is the point, though. She shouldn’t have been in this position. Imagine the crazy-making desperation of a woman who is six months pregnant and so goddamn scared that she inserts a coathanger into herself to attempt an abortion. That wouldn’t happen if she had had the access she needed and deserved to reproductive…

Or she couldn't afford it. :(

I had a bad feeling something like this was coming because of all the restrictions that were placed on abortion. I’m not surprised.

You make a good point that no one knows for sure, but if the woman had access to the abortion services she obviously needed at an earlier point in her pregnancy, this wouldn’t have been an issue, right? This is still a result of denying women access to health care that is vitally important.

Legally, they had to resuscitate.

Actually no, it is not depending on what state you are living in. However, in backwoods Tennessee you can’t get one after 15 weeks and most of the time you have to travel over 100 miles and spend up to $1,000.00. So, with that idiotic 48 hour wait, you really are fkd if you have a job...especially if it is low paying.

No, the report on this particular case indicates the child will remain on oxygen for the rest of his life, now, due to trauma inflicted during the attempted abortion. This isn’t about his premie state it’s about actual damage done to his lungs in during the botched abortion.

Hey, I too am genuinely interested. I know it’s a duty of care legal issue, and all due care is taken for a foetus born alive. What I’m interested in, and I feel I must preface this with the understanding that this is a purely hypothetical situation for me and I’m grateful for that, is where the line of all due…

Shame on me? LOL.

While that may be true, I don’t think it’s right for this person to have to carry these scars and this horrible legacy. A legacy of being unwanted by a desperate woman in a desperate situation. I know there are lots of cases of premies who need extensive medical intervention but those babies have (hopefully) more…

That’s a little outlandish. It’s not like he shot a black kid or anything.

But there’s damage to the lungs from the coat hanger, so this goes beyond what’s normal for preemies/micro preemies.

At what point does quality of life play into this thought process? In that position I’d rather be dead.

I might have just sung this in a George Michael voice, with visions of supermodels running through my head.

“Freeeeeeedom.”

If oxygen is needed on a permanent basis the fetus was clearly not viable on its own outside the womb. He is probably going to be in an incubator for months. This person is going to have a horrible, painful and ultimately short life for no justifiable reason. The doctors may have had no legal choice but I believe…

I think the idea is that, if she’d had easier access earlier on, she wouldn’t have resorted to such desperate measures.

I’m sure she tried to get an abortion earlier on & because the rules were so restrictive she couldn’t have. People logically wouldn’t put their lives in dangers & at a later stage if the abortion care was more accessbile. Poor woman, living in a place with backwards-ass politicians. :/

This is what happens when states are allowed to legislate every step of a completely legal procedure. Abortion is legal? Okay! Let’s shut down every clinic that provides safe abortions, and those who aren’t shut down let’s stand outside and threaten the workers and the patients, and even sometimes kill those workers…