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ShazzieB

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16. This is what infuriates me so much.
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 10:50 PM
Jan 2023

These jerkfaces aren't just outlawing abortion in the name of "life." (Which would be bad enough.) They're passing such sloppily worded legislation that nobody (even the lawyers in the hospital legal depts.) is really sure what's allowed and what isn't, and they're making the penalties for breaking their stupid laws so severe that everyone is afraid to take a chance on providing any meaningful health care to people who are in dire straits.

I'm not quite cynical enough to believe they're all doing it on purpose (although maybe some of them are, who knows). I suspect that this is mainly due to the the fact that human reproduction is a hell of a lot more complicated than they think it is and they're too stupid to realize how much they don't know. They figure, hey, everybody knows where babies come from, what else could we possibly need to know? And they write laws that are too vague and simplistic to apply to real life situations that are complex and nuanced. And when they create these nightmare situations, they're not really motivated to do anything about it, because the only thing that really matters to them is preventing abortions. Whether people suffer as a result is of no concern to them.

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