Woman suing Texas over abortion ban vomits on the stand in emotional reaction during dramatic hearing

www.nbcnews.com Woman suing Texas over abortion ban vomits on the stand in emotional reaction during hearing

Three plaintiffs testified about the trauma they experienced carrying nonviable pregnancies.

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Horrible laws written mostly by men against women. Men who will never and have never been affected by what they are prohibiting.
It's so gross and infuriating.
- Even if it did affect them through someone they knew, the people writing the laws can afford to circumvent them. Make no mistake, these people do get abortions banned or not.
- This is NOT a men vs. women issue. It's a conservatives vs. sane people issue. Joe Biden didn't take away abortion access and Amy Coney Barrett did.
  
  It's an us vs the patriarchy problem. Which doesn't mean the same as men vs women.
- I kinda disagree. Patriarchal laws and social norms hurt men as well. In this case, I'm sure the men in her life were negatively affected (not to the same degree of course).
- Don't tell me what to do.
  Specifically, laws written by straight, white, Republican men, for the sole purpose of gaining power over everyone who's not straight, and everyone who's not white, and everyone who's not Republican, and everyone who's not male... no matter how cruel the effects of the laws are. This is the actual Republican platform. In the pursuit of the 'right' people telling the 'wrong' people what to do, and in the pursuit of keeping the 'wrong' people from telling the 'right' people what to do, anything goes. Hypocrisy, lies, crime, election fraud, subverting courts, coups, false patriotism, false piety, terrorism, even outright murder... anything goes.
  Know the enemy, spread the word to your friends and family (and maybe further).
- Just another Monday
  
  Even though you're right, I think this sentiment minimizes the horrific things the American christian right is doing.
  I keep seeing multiple variations of this comment on every single lemmy post about christian conservatives. Idk if it's like an astroturfing thing or what, but it normalizes these kind of fascist acts. We should be shocked. We should be surprised and outraged and insulted. The minute we're not is when it becomes normal. And we know that's dangerous af because we're already watching it happen.
- Have you SEEN an anti-abortion rally? LOTS of women.
  
  Men are the ones making the laws. And they have no idea about the biology. Take the politician from Ohio for example, who suggested that an ectopic pregnancy should be reimplanted into the uterus.

Heartbreaking
One of the plaintiffs in the suit, Samantha Casiano, vomited on the stand while discussing her baby's fatal birth defect, which she said also put her life at risk.
Casiano said she learned at 20 weeks' gestation that her baby had anencephaly, a serious condition that meant the infant was missing parts of her brain and skull. Casiano said her obstetrician told her the baby would not survive after birth and gave her information about funeral homes.
Casiano read aloud a doctor’s note that diagnosed her pregnancy as high risk, then began to sob and ultimately threw up, prompting the judge to call a recess.
- 3 people downvoted facts? Fuck them.

Ashley Brandt, a Dallas resident, said she was pregnant with twins but learned one had a fatal condition called acrania. The longer she carried it, the more it jeopardized the survival of her other twin.
oh my god....
- I don't think you can be any more "pro life" than putting 2 other healthy people at risk to save the life of a baby that's going to die.
  
  Don't forget many "pro lifers" are in the same demographic as pro death penalty.
  
  especially if it is a fetus and not a baby

And the far right are going to claim she's faking it like the disgusting people they are.
- The thing the right fears most is the truth.
  
  They fear not being in control. Whether it's control over others bodies or control over religion and government, or the fear of being a minority racial group, the one thing in common is they have to be the ones allowed to tell everyone else how to live.
  
  My understanding of it (based on discussions with my mom) is that they don't fear the truth, they fear being wrong, because if they are wrong they then don't have an answer anymore and it is deeply uncomfortable.
  The issue with this is that if you never acknowledge that you may be wrong, you can never learn.
  
  Which is why they are god believers

I am surprised these Texas savages did not lock her up.
- Texas will soon be banning women from vomiting in public. That’ll solve that issue.

These types of laws are sick and barbaric and not indicitive of a civilised society! These woman should not have to revisit their trauma but they are fucking made to by a sick group of degenerates who make laws that the majority simply don't want!

The cruelty of it is the point.
- But what's the point of the cruelty? ~Cherri
  
  Power flex, mostly
  (Totally unrelated, but I keep seeing you around and I'm curious about why you sign your name. Is your account shared? Feel free to ignore if you don't want to answer Im just curious)

disgusting

Was the video not in the article? I skimmed and watched that top one but saw it nowhere?
Does anyone have it? Depending on how the person comes across in the moment it occurred the shock impact of these events is often useful at getting through to people.

Any doctor who complies with this ban is a worthless piece of shit. Not as bad as the subhumans who wrote it and voted for it, but pretty fucking close.
- "Physicians who violate Texas’s abortion laws can lose their medical licenses, face up to 99 years in prison or incur fines of at least $100,000, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights"
  You wouldn't have to deal with any decision as hard as this. How can you say a doctor is complicit? They're likely just doing their best then a law gets put in place threatening life in prison.
  Unless you're put in that position, you have no room to say that shit.
  
  Do no harm
  
  If a doctor is willing to stand there with their thumb up their asshole while their patient dies an easily preventable death, they're a failure as a doctor and as a human being. At best, it's negligent manslaughter.
  If you're too much of a cowardly little rat to stand up against fascism to save a life, don't be a fucking doctor; quit and go work at Taco Bell you belong.

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