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All of which is the long way of saying that maybe the hour is later than we think?
Maybe we're not in Anne Frank territory. But we do seem close to the part where German Jews are having their businesses seized. www.thebulwark.com/p/should-we-...
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I assume there is some theoretical legal answer to these questions—but I would be surprised if theoretical legal procedures are being universally applied to property rights at the moment since they aren’t being applied to more fundamental questions, such as due process and regular order.
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What about your bank accounts? Do you have access to your savings?
How about your property? Your car, the furniture in your house, your clothes, your computer. What happens to all of that?
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What happens to your children in the hours after you are arrested? Who picks them up from school? Who feeds them? Where do they sleep?
What happens to your assets?
If you own a home, what happens to it? Is it sold? By whom? Through what process? Where to the proceeds of the sale go?
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You show up for a routine court date and are snatched by a group of men in masks who claim they are agents of the state. You are put in jail. And let’s assume that you are deported. Perhaps to El Salvador.
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Let’s say you’re an immigrant with questionable legal status. You’re married and your spouse is the same. You have lived in America for many years. You have two kids who are citizens. . . .
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How are we not? Didn't they start by deporting people to other countries like Poland first? Stripped of due process, their possessions, their dignity? Burn (ban) their books and erase their history?
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Instant Suckage coincidentally also the original band name of The New Radicals
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Plus you know there’s NO masking in the NICU. All these resources to try and save a fetus without consent of the family and no one will do anything to protect it after it’s born.
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Oh my god. Of course it has. Things just get worse and worse.
Honestly I wrote about Adriana a few weeks ago, before her story went viral. Now that she’s in the news my article has been “found” and the messages I’m getting make me weep for humanity. These people don’t care about life.
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There are so many ways that lives could actually be saved every single day that the same people will not consider, COVID mitigation, climate action, not voting for the kind of people who would dismantle USAID or re-route defensive military support to add to an offensive war, but nope. Just torture.
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Yes I agree. Misogynoir on full display and yet all the folks cheering that a “life was saved” aren’t even mentioning the fact that Adriana could have been saved with proper medical care. Or that she deserved dignity in death. It’s all too awful.
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The state of Georgia should pay the medical bills of Adriana once she was declared brain dead. The family is not responsible for this indignity.
The state is also responsible for the newborn’s healthcare for his lifetime. No health plan coverage ever imagined this kind of experiment by the state.
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And when they harvested that baby, he was less than 2pounds . At this stage, if he survives, he will have life long medical problems.
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“It’s even worse if you’re black. Misogynoir, which is the term given to the sexism and racism experienced by black women, is a serious issue in America. Black women are three times more likely to die in pregnancy because their pregnancy related concerns are frequently dismissed”
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Also, believe patients. Especially women.
We shouldn’t talk about Adriana’s tragic story without mentioning that it was completely preventable
Had the hospital done their job & ran tests, she would still be here.
Misogyny & misogynoir kill. Every damn day.
Call it out /end
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What they did was wrong and will put many lives in jeopardy if it is allowed to set precedent
If you want to be pro life? Fight Medicaid cuts. Fight cuts to food assistance. Lobby for better access to healthcare, housing, childcare & social supports
Help lower infant mortality
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Because it’s not above life, it’s about control. Subjugation. Taking our reproductive freedoms and autonomy.
This was a clear cut ethical violation and a grotesque medical experiment.
I hope more than anything that Chance is ok, but the outcome doesn’t change what happened
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Even worse, black babies have the highest rate of infant deaths across the US (10.86 per 1000 live births)
Yet they experimented on a black woman and a black baby and none of the pro life crowd are doing anything to improve their survival odds.
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If that doesn’t scare the crap out of you, you aren’t paying attention.
If you still think it’s about “life”, consider this.
Georgia’s infant mortality is one of the worst in the US, and in 2022 (after the fall of Roe) they saw a 13% increase in infant deaths.
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It would effectively criminalize pregnancy, while making life unsafe for everyone who has a uterus.
It would put women second.
Misogyny means we’re already treated as incubators a lot of the time, this would legalize it.
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If you don’t understand what that means, it would mean an end to IVF & abortion. It would mean that even miscarriages could be investigated for murder charges.
It would give a legal right to a fetus that no other person has, the right to use another body without ongoing consent
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This was done to further a far right pet project, fetal personhood.
This wasn’t about saving a life.
They don’t care about the life of her child.
They want to establish legal precedent to declare embryos and fetuses full people under the law.
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The state and the hospital made a choice to experiment on a black woman, and didn’t take into account her wishes or the wishes of her next of kin.
Regardless of the outcome, the lack of consent is why we’re enraged.