Unpopular opinion: people with anencephaly ought to be born & loved for as long as possible. They deserve palliative care, not murder in the womb. Abortion is not euthanasia.
This little girl is not in agony. She coos and smiles at her mother's touch. She is loved. She wouldn't have known any of that love had she been violently stabbed with a lethal injection and born dead. According to her mom on YouTube she lived for 3 weeks and her family cherished her.
When I say later abortion is not euthanasia, I mean: the children are killed without general anesthesia. We wouldn't even kill a horse or someone on death row this way. Later abortion, even for medical reasons, is horrific violence. The babies are stabbed with an overdose of digoxin or lidocaine. They may be exsanguinated or dismembered alive.
If you want your disabled child to live with dignity and die humanely, with the least suffering possible, then do not abort them. Love them. You will suffer less in the long run knowing you protected them, that you did not pay for their brutal murder.
And for the record, you still have to go through labor when you get a later abortion for fetal anomaly. Unless, of course, you get your child ripped out piece by piece in mangled shreds. The chances of uterine perforation and sepsis from this are extreme.
Disabled children are not "choices". Perinatal hospice is ethical. Murder is not.
Learn more about anencephaly.
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The Supreme Court’s draft had commented that there’s a “low domestic supply of infants” but yet there’s simultaneously an active push to distract from our stillbirth rates in the US.
1 out of 160 babies are stillborn in the US. That’s 47,000 infants a year. For black mothers/gestational parents, that rate increases to 1 in 80. Stillborn babies are wanted and their parents face insurmountable grief from these losses.
Parents like me who have lost children to stillbirth had presented a bill called the Shine for Autumn Act to Congress last year that would require monitoring of stillbirth statistics in the US in hopes to reduce the rate of preventable stillbirth, and all of the dissenting votes in the House were Republican, including big name pro-lifers:
As well as the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2022, which was introduced on March 9, 2022 and aims to add stillbirth and stillbirth prevention to the language of Title V, the largest piece of gestational health legislation in US history- which is likely to face the same dissent when it comes to a vote.
Let these facts continue to radicalize you. There aren’t any protections currently in place for infants transitioning earthside from the womb, and there isn’t any intention from these extremists to put them in place. Parents who have lost babies to TFMR and/or stillbirth are screaming from the rooftops, begging the government to save our wanted children and they’re clutching their pearls over some embryos smaller than an eraser head.
This has never been about babies. It’s about control.
So Jessa had an abortion then. She terminated an existing pregnancy because the pregnancy wasn't viable. Not a miscarriage. Of course, she'll never admit to that, but that's what this was. She was given the choice between medication abortion and surgical and she chose surgical.
CW: Pregnancy Loss
Look, I don’t really want to get into this. It’s true that a D&C, which Jessa acknowledged having, can be used for multiple reasons—including for the termination of a pregnancy, viable or no. It’s also routinely used in miscarriage care when the woman’s body doesn’t pass the fetus naturally, and after birth if part of the placenta is retained.
I’ve heard a lot of speculation that Jessa’s baby “still had a heartbeat,” and therefore she had an abortion. First of all, Jessa has explicitly denied this—
Secondly… Even if the fetus did have heartbeat, Jessa made it abundantly clear in her video that the fetus wasn’t viable. To me, it feels incredibly icky and cruel to force the term “abortion” onto the act of termination for medical reasons (TFMR).
I get it. The Duggars are awful. They’ve lobbied hard against abortion. Their views have made it difficult for many, many women to access D&C procedures—even in situations where the fetus isn’t viable. They’ve advocated to take away the right to choose termination for medical reasons. They’re awful. Their views are disgusting. We’re living in a scary, post–Dobbs world, and it sucks.
All that said… Jessa denied TFMR. She said the baby’s heart stopped long before her D&C. And, even if she’s lying, TFMR is a horrible loss and it feels incredibly, incredibly cruel to me to more–or–less rub Jessa’s loss in her face by using the word ‘abortion,’ and thereby insinuate that this was her choice somehow. It wasn’t. Her baby was unwell, such that it couldn’t survive outside the womb. She didn’t choose that. She never would have chosen that. It’s a tragic loss that is entirely out of her control. Smugly saying: “Ha! You had an abortion!” is both untrue, based on what she has shared, and pointless. And I’m not too keen on pointless cruelty towards those who’ve gone through personal tragedy and loss. Even when I vehemently disagree with their politics.
ETA: The fact that she was offered medication or a D&C is irrelevant, and proves nothing as to the fetus’s viability. Both options will empty the womb whether there’s a viable fetus in there with a heartbeat, or one that has already died.
It’s the worse day of the year for me, because it’s the anniversary of the day I had a termination for medical reasons back in 2006 but tbf the build up, from July is way way worse than the actual day...
Her name was Chloe Isobel Rebecca and I wrote about the whole thing on my old blog, if you want to know more, here’s the link
Today started with my wife going ‘fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck’ because she forgot to cancel a payment for a thing she was subscribed to and goodbye $80 that we needed to cover some bill payments today. FML
Then it looked up because Mishkit posted a new fic and i am DYING to read it. I legit squeeeeed. It’s the sequel to the Barista!Billy AU and you should definitely read it. Here’s the link to the first one and the link to the sequel
But I need to book the MS900 Fundamentals exam and I’m scared I’m gonna fail even though I’ve been getting good results in the practice exam for the past 2 weeks.
Stupid impostor syndrome and never ending feeling of ‘I’m not good enough’ and ‘I’m not worthy’ and ‘I don’t belong’
and while the billy/harringrove fandom has been amazing and welcoming (I love all of you guys so much), in my every day life I have zero self-confidence
and my wife keeps asking me if there’s anything she can do and she wants to buy me flowers or a present or bake a cake but we have zero money rn (like, actually zero money, there’s under $1 in our account rn) and like, I’m fine, i don’t need anything.
but I’m definitely gonna buy myself that ST tarot deck with the money from the editing gig I just got the first installment for.
Quick question. What alt mode is the fastest in ur continuation?
Short answer: Space shuttles.
Long answer: It depends on circumstances. Details provided under readmore.
To be honest, any altmode can achieve the "fastest" title if they were a speedster-type outlier. However, since that's obviously not the point of the question here, so let's state what's obvious first:
In order to be considered the "fastest altmode," They must have control over their speed and direction (e.g. launching them with orbital railgun doesn't count)
Now then, let's get started.
On land - Hovering type Racers
As I mentioned earlier, Hoverbikes or hovering vehicles are part of the groundframe family. In fact, it's actually considered as a type of beneficial mutation, which means any altmode with wheels has a slim chance of being hatched with thrusters instead.
Naturally, hovercrafts can generate greater speed than their wheeled counterparts as they are relatively free from road condition issues. Adding that with sleek, aerodynamic structure of a racer frame, and you have an ultimate speed demon.
One downside is that, the faster they get, the more unstable they get as they do not have any wheels to keep them firmly on ground when they are trying to make a turn. Sometimes they spin out of control as soon as they hit the curve when they are at their top speed.
On Atmosphere - Seekers
Basically, they are F1s of the sky. The entire species evolved to have maximum SPD, maximum AGI, and minimum of anything else, so there is no way a plain Cessna or Helicopter can ever take them over at Sky race. It's pretty obvious just by how their alt mode looks, honestly.
'But hey, wait a sec! Didn't you mentioned it was the Shuttles that were the fastest? What happened to that?'
Well......
On anywhere else - Space Shuttles
The Seekers may be the fastest on atmosphere, but the space is a vast place with no air friction no gravitational pull and plenty of space to accelerate. Given enough time, Shuttle can and will hurl themselves through the void with almost godzillion times the speed of an average Seeker. That alone would be enough to grant them the title of "fastest altmode."
Besides, the terminal velocity needed to escape Earth's atmosphere is 11.9km/s(~42840km/h). No Seeker would ever dare to challange THAT. This would have made the Shuttles the fastest on atmosphere too, but as I mentioned they can only produce such speed when they are going to Space. Their atmospheric cruising speed is obviously a lot less impressive than those of Seekers.
Taylor swift 30 day song challenge - Day 3 - A song that makes you sad
I'm tied for two here. Bigger than the whole sky and Ronan.
I had a tfmr at 21 weeks via labour and delivery, sometimes it feels like a cross between a miscarriage and a still birth. BTTWS fits entirely but Ronan feels like how I'd feel had I made the other choice. I play them both when I am having a grief day.
A very happy die to the infertility doctor who just told me “it’s your body, your choice” and that I could have all the abortions “I wanted” if I tried to get pregnant without IVF.
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