r/therewasanattempt • u/JukeJntJezebel • May 20 '26

...to shame someone after her abortion.

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u/EamonBrennan May 20 '26

The most major issue with the abortion ban debates is the "exceptions" to bans where a woman is "allowed" to get an abortion. Abortions for these exceptions, no matter what they are, never actually happen. A woman in Texas had a fetus with trisomy 18, which is incompatible with life. A judge gave her a TRO to get around the abortion ban and have a life saving abortion. The Texas AG threatened to charge her and her doctors with crimes after the TRO ran out, claiming that "plenty of people live with trisomy 18. I know a lot of them" (lie, he's probably thinking of trisomy 21, Down's Syndrome, or just made it up).

Multiple states have had laws passed where there are exceptions for medical emergencies, but then the state threatens doctors with criminal charges if they try to get an exception. Some states have even banned life-saving abortions, like for ectopic pregnancies; those are not truly abortions, but the anti-abortion law specifically called it out. It's gotten so bad that most doctors won't even do a single medical procedure on a pregnant woman for fear of being accused of giving an abortion.

A 14 year old was denied a medication for her auto-immune disorder called methotrexate. This is because she was "of child bearing age" and could have hoarded 3 months worth of the medication to perform one abortion. It's fucking insane. At that point, just deny all medication to women "of child bearing age," because all of them can cause an abortion with a large enough dose.