A sad anniversary. It's about trust but also, as we all know, about seeing women as full human beings with the authority to make decisions about their bodies. It's about legal and cultural status as well as trusting women to use that status in the way that is best for them.
The people who said "not to worry" four years ago were the ones who are saying "not to worry" now about things like women not having the vote, about women being pushed out of labor markets. They're not worried because it's all going according to plan.
My heart breaks for all the children and people throughout the country who have lost control of their bodies and access to the healthcare and reproductive education and resources that should never have been subject to debate.
I was 11 years old when Roe v Wade was decided and even then I understood the importance and significance this decision was for women.
And guess what? Roe v Wade passed because people were dying!
In college I volunteered to protect patients entering a local planned parenthood clinic on certain days of the week, from the hypocrites spewing hate. I couldn’t understand why they were so concerned about something that wasn’t their business.
Now I’m 64, witnessing another human right taken away from us.
I blame the Catholic Church, run by men who know nothing about peoples’ reproductive systems. After Roe, they went into overdrive against abortion. I remember walking out during the homily every time the priest would start preaching against the only medical procedure to clean a uterus! Not soon after I left the church.
I also blame the AMA for not providing PSA’s regarding the various medical conditions, possibly life threatening, that require this procedure. Instead they allow misinformation to spread.
I blame Democrats who knew for years the Repedocans were working on reversing the law and did nothing!
If Dems take back control of both houses they need to make maternal and prenatal care funding available immediately. Make it veto proof.
Then, if we’re still standing with a Democratic (Socialist) 😉 President in January 2029, not only investigate, impeach, and if warranted remove the maga judges AND expand the court. Also sign into law defining abortion as a medical procedure, left solely at the discretion of the physician and patient!
The sad thing is, besides anything about abortion, the U.S. has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in a first world country
It is a disgrace. Abortion is an issue of course but so is maternal infant care. We could do so much better but few places offer support for mothers and babies.
I have discovered that land of the free has been a propaganda slogan for years. We were never really free. I’ve been in countries that were considered third world, and even though materially they didn’t have as much, they were much freer in many ways than we ever were. Happier too. More giving and kind .
The solution is to remove Dumpty and his sexist supporters completely from our government, business, and country. Then fully institute Single Payer Universal Healthcare, including ALL HEALTHCARE NECESSARY FOR ALL PEOPLE! That includes family planning, contraception, and abortion! Those who disagree with this can simply leave the USA forever. THIS IS NOT POLITICAL. IT IS NECESSARY HEALTHCARE. Politics have no business influencing healthcare at all.
Great summary and information about the need for passing the Women's Health Protection act. This issue is not mentioned in priorities to ask candidates about running for office. Ask those questions about changing this to a national policy, protected by Federal laws with those who want to serve people. heath and justice, by being our elected representatives. Bring back choice for all.
Where do we go from here? We make sure to arrest the musk man before the mid terms, otherwise we will see the full weight of a weaponized congress-both houses- drop on us like a ton of bricks. There is no containing the evil that has attached to this administration. We need to take the hint from Albania, no work, no buy, nothing but people in the streets until we restore democracy in THIS country. We must remove Citizens United from tyranny of the wealthy mega donors over everyone else. We need to institute common sense to regain our self respect. The status quo ain't cutting it right now.
Sadly I truly believe that having more black and brown babies and mothers die was what many on the right were hoping would happen. After all, many of them believe in white supremacy and the "Great Replacement" conspiracy. That more white babies and mothers are also dying is just collateral damage. (If more white men were dying, that would be different.) And, of course, the women and babies most impacted are poor. After all, rich white women have the means to go to blue states for care. This administration has proven beyond any doubt that they care nothing about poor people, as long as they continue to vote Republican.
Not completely but pretty extensively in practice by refusing to expand Medicaid. Medicaid is the federal program to provide health services to low-income and requires that any healthcare provider who excepts Medicaid must provide reproductive healthcare services on a no cost basis. However it is administered by the states and when the feds offered to expand the program to cover more people some states refused the money. Further, Congress voted last year to temporarily (supposedly) ban Planned Parenthood from receiving any Medicaid funds at all. Planned Parenthood has the most extensive network of reproductive health services clinics but became the primary target of anti-abortionists ire because many (though not all ) of their clinics provide abortions. Apparently the fact that none of the Medicaid money was ever used for abortion services is irrelevant. Or the fact that most of their services are basic reproductive healthcare like contraceptives, STI (including HIV) tests and treatment, pregnancy tests, cancer screenings and so on. Add to that this administration has changed the criteria for Title II funding which provides(d) grants for family planning services to emphasize “fertility awareness” instead of contraception access. This has further undermined the financial stability of reproductive health clinics including Planned Parenthood especially (they were initially thrown out of the Title II program in Trump’s first term but many of the PP clinics returned to the program during the Biden years. A number of blue states have found ways to use state money to support these clinics but as far as I know no red states have considered it.
Doctors are leaving states where they can't practice properly, so there's an even worse lack of care than there was. But also, part of the point is that abortion care is an integral part of reproductuctive care, and there's no good place to draw a line.
None of this has anything to do with protecting helpless unborns or protecting women. Just like Trump's drooling over blondes and grabbing pussies has nothing to do with love, attraction, or pleasure. All of it is part of the same coin: control, domination and humiliation of women. No love, protection or care involved.
These ppl must not have kids/ girls or granddaughters that will have to endure this and i can't believe the women on this panel voted for this but hey why should they care they're all dried up inside now so they don't give a shit what young women are going thru... let me just say this FK SCOTUS I hope your peckers fall off and your vaginas turn to dust... hateful biaches!
If their family members needed care, they could pay for it themselves. It’s just like donnie saying Covid shots are bad, then secretly getting his own 👹
But we’ve seen from that awful woman in Florida that as well as using her contacts to get the treatment she needed she had no compunction in blaming “liberals” for the medics’ hesitation in providing it.
Were it her daughter she would doubtless do the same thing because if is never their fault.
Thank you yet again for continually being an advocate we can count on every single time. The fact that this is a topic in the United States of America in 2026 boggles the mind. It infuriates me and makes me cry. That said, I'd like to take the opportunity to tell all women on here that live in the south, I'm in Virginia, and we are the only safe haven for reproductive care in the south. If you or anyone you care about ever finds themself in the position to need help here, please reach out to me. I will do everything in my power to help. I see a DSP whose primary concerns are to provide affordable reproductive services to women and trans care. They are doing wonderful things in this hostile environment.
We have to be the change and help our sisters, because we obviously can't depend on the powers that be.
These so-called christians make me extremely angry. HOW DARE they try to impose their beliefs on we who do not share them! Our bodies are none of their business, full stop.
So, babies are dying of congenital defects after being born instead of being aborted before they are born. They died either way. Mortality isn't higher, it's just at a different point on the time-line. It looks higher because abortion didn't count as infant mortality.
I did wonder about that-it might account for some of the increased infant mortality, although there are other reasons the US has high infant mortality (no national healthcare access and high poverty). However I know someone whose fetus died and she had to have an abortion in Wisconsin, and another who was hemorrhaging when five months pregnant (and a Catholic) who had an abortion. The first woman would have been required to continue her pregnancy to deliver a dead baby and the second might have died while the doctor had to get legal advice about whether they could abort a doomed pregnancy under the laws now in effect in Texas and other states. There are documented cases of women bleeding out in hospitals where the doctors wouldn't provide care out of fear of prosecution. And OB-GYNs have fled states with restrictive abortion laws so the women in those (mainly rural) states have even less access to healthcare including prenatal care
I think I know my own intent better than you do. They are literally saying that the deaths are occurring after rather than before birth. But they are pretending that the number of deaths has increased.
words matter. it’s higher because there’s more death now. you abort a fetus, not an infant. infant mortality doesn’t include abortion, you have to be delivered and draw a breath before being classified as an infant.
sorry to say, but you are wrong. words matter by definition when it comes to statistical analysis.
You’re conflating two different measures.
Even if someone believes a fetus and an infant are the same individual philosophically, infant mortality is a medical and statistical term with a fixed definition. It only includes live born infants. An increase in infant mortality means more babies who were born alive are dying before age one.
Abortions have never been counted in that statistic.
What about poor disabled or other abled or high risk pregnancy? 💜 Watch , If The Walls Could Talk, a wonderful movie with Cher, Anne Heche, Sissy Spacek, Demi Moore
A sad anniversary. It's about trust but also, as we all know, about seeing women as full human beings with the authority to make decisions about their bodies. It's about legal and cultural status as well as trusting women to use that status in the way that is best for them.
The people who said "not to worry" four years ago were the ones who are saying "not to worry" now about things like women not having the vote, about women being pushed out of labor markets. They're not worried because it's all going according to plan.
My heart breaks for all the children and people throughout the country who have lost control of their bodies and access to the healthcare and reproductive education and resources that should never have been subject to debate.
I was 11 years old when Roe v Wade was decided and even then I understood the importance and significance this decision was for women.
And guess what? Roe v Wade passed because people were dying!
In college I volunteered to protect patients entering a local planned parenthood clinic on certain days of the week, from the hypocrites spewing hate. I couldn’t understand why they were so concerned about something that wasn’t their business.
Now I’m 64, witnessing another human right taken away from us.
I blame the Catholic Church, run by men who know nothing about peoples’ reproductive systems. After Roe, they went into overdrive against abortion. I remember walking out during the homily every time the priest would start preaching against the only medical procedure to clean a uterus! Not soon after I left the church.
I also blame the AMA for not providing PSA’s regarding the various medical conditions, possibly life threatening, that require this procedure. Instead they allow misinformation to spread.
I blame Democrats who knew for years the Repedocans were working on reversing the law and did nothing!
If Dems take back control of both houses they need to make maternal and prenatal care funding available immediately. Make it veto proof.
Then, if we’re still standing with a Democratic (Socialist) 😉 President in January 2029, not only investigate, impeach, and if warranted remove the maga judges AND expand the court. Also sign into law defining abortion as a medical procedure, left solely at the discretion of the physician and patient!
The sad thing is, besides anything about abortion, the U.S. has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in a first world country
It is a disgrace. Abortion is an issue of course but so is maternal infant care. We could do so much better but few places offer support for mothers and babies.
GOP and Corporocrats (ostensibly Democrats): "love the fetus, hate the child."
This is ALL REPUBLICANS!
I presume the death rates of women being denied reproductive health care is also up. The provision of those statistics would be useful too.
I cannot believe it when I hear stories of women being incarcerated and charged with criminal offenses after having miscarriages.
The hypocrisy of Cat Canning is the perfect example of the MAGAt movement.
America is lying to itself claiming to be the land of the free.
I have discovered that land of the free has been a propaganda slogan for years. We were never really free. I’ve been in countries that were considered third world, and even though materially they didn’t have as much, they were much freer in many ways than we ever were. Happier too. More giving and kind .
The solution is to remove Dumpty and his sexist supporters completely from our government, business, and country. Then fully institute Single Payer Universal Healthcare, including ALL HEALTHCARE NECESSARY FOR ALL PEOPLE! That includes family planning, contraception, and abortion! Those who disagree with this can simply leave the USA forever. THIS IS NOT POLITICAL. IT IS NECESSARY HEALTHCARE. Politics have no business influencing healthcare at all.
Great summary and information about the need for passing the Women's Health Protection act. This issue is not mentioned in priorities to ask candidates about running for office. Ask those questions about changing this to a national policy, protected by Federal laws with those who want to serve people. heath and justice, by being our elected representatives. Bring back choice for all.
Where do we go from here? We make sure to arrest the musk man before the mid terms, otherwise we will see the full weight of a weaponized congress-both houses- drop on us like a ton of bricks. There is no containing the evil that has attached to this administration. We need to take the hint from Albania, no work, no buy, nothing but people in the streets until we restore democracy in THIS country. We must remove Citizens United from tyranny of the wealthy mega donors over everyone else. We need to institute common sense to regain our self respect. The status quo ain't cutting it right now.
Sadly I truly believe that having more black and brown babies and mothers die was what many on the right were hoping would happen. After all, many of them believe in white supremacy and the "Great Replacement" conspiracy. That more white babies and mothers are also dying is just collateral damage. (If more white men were dying, that would be different.) And, of course, the women and babies most impacted are poor. After all, rich white women have the means to go to blue states for care. This administration has proven beyond any doubt that they care nothing about poor people, as long as they continue to vote Republican.
Linda, I agree. When the Republican Rot hears this information, they’ll be glad “mission accomplished”.
Absolute hypocrites and racists, they need to be removed
Do the red states completely deny reproductive healthcare? Or just abortions/abortion related?
Not completely but pretty extensively in practice by refusing to expand Medicaid. Medicaid is the federal program to provide health services to low-income and requires that any healthcare provider who excepts Medicaid must provide reproductive healthcare services on a no cost basis. However it is administered by the states and when the feds offered to expand the program to cover more people some states refused the money. Further, Congress voted last year to temporarily (supposedly) ban Planned Parenthood from receiving any Medicaid funds at all. Planned Parenthood has the most extensive network of reproductive health services clinics but became the primary target of anti-abortionists ire because many (though not all ) of their clinics provide abortions. Apparently the fact that none of the Medicaid money was ever used for abortion services is irrelevant. Or the fact that most of their services are basic reproductive healthcare like contraceptives, STI (including HIV) tests and treatment, pregnancy tests, cancer screenings and so on. Add to that this administration has changed the criteria for Title II funding which provides(d) grants for family planning services to emphasize “fertility awareness” instead of contraception access. This has further undermined the financial stability of reproductive health clinics including Planned Parenthood especially (they were initially thrown out of the Title II program in Trump’s first term but many of the PP clinics returned to the program during the Biden years. A number of blue states have found ways to use state money to support these clinics but as far as I know no red states have considered it.
Doctors are leaving states where they can't practice properly, so there's an even worse lack of care than there was. But also, part of the point is that abortion care is an integral part of reproductuctive care, and there's no good place to draw a line.
None of this has anything to do with protecting helpless unborns or protecting women. Just like Trump's drooling over blondes and grabbing pussies has nothing to do with love, attraction, or pleasure. All of it is part of the same coin: control, domination and humiliation of women. No love, protection or care involved.
These ppl must not have kids/ girls or granddaughters that will have to endure this and i can't believe the women on this panel voted for this but hey why should they care they're all dried up inside now so they don't give a shit what young women are going thru... let me just say this FK SCOTUS I hope your peckers fall off and your vaginas turn to dust... hateful biaches!
If their family members needed care, they could pay for it themselves. It’s just like donnie saying Covid shots are bad, then secretly getting his own 👹
But we’ve seen from that awful woman in Florida that as well as using her contacts to get the treatment she needed she had no compunction in blaming “liberals” for the medics’ hesitation in providing it.
Were it her daughter she would doubtless do the same thing because if is never their fault.
Thank you yet again for continually being an advocate we can count on every single time. The fact that this is a topic in the United States of America in 2026 boggles the mind. It infuriates me and makes me cry. That said, I'd like to take the opportunity to tell all women on here that live in the south, I'm in Virginia, and we are the only safe haven for reproductive care in the south. If you or anyone you care about ever finds themself in the position to need help here, please reach out to me. I will do everything in my power to help. I see a DSP whose primary concerns are to provide affordable reproductive services to women and trans care. They are doing wonderful things in this hostile environment.
We have to be the change and help our sisters, because we obviously can't depend on the powers that be.
These so-called christians make me extremely angry. HOW DARE they try to impose their beliefs on we who do not share them! Our bodies are none of their business, full stop.
So, babies are dying of congenital defects after being born instead of being aborted before they are born. They died either way. Mortality isn't higher, it's just at a different point on the time-line. It looks higher because abortion didn't count as infant mortality.
Exactly
I did wonder about that-it might account for some of the increased infant mortality, although there are other reasons the US has high infant mortality (no national healthcare access and high poverty). However I know someone whose fetus died and she had to have an abortion in Wisconsin, and another who was hemorrhaging when five months pregnant (and a Catholic) who had an abortion. The first woman would have been required to continue her pregnancy to deliver a dead baby and the second might have died while the doctor had to get legal advice about whether they could abort a doomed pregnancy under the laws now in effect in Texas and other states. There are documented cases of women bleeding out in hospitals where the doctors wouldn't provide care out of fear of prosecution. And OB-GYNs have fled states with restrictive abortion laws so the women in those (mainly rural) states have even less access to healthcare including prenatal care
I wasn't addressing inadequate miscarriage care. That is inexcusable. I was addressing bait and switch statistics.
Actually, no. You are only making an ideological point, which you think is clever.
I think I know my own intent better than you do. They are literally saying that the deaths are occurring after rather than before birth. But they are pretending that the number of deaths has increased.
In any event that doesn't account for all of it. And maternal mortality is up dramatically, which your point can't account for at all.
I wasn't addressing maternal mortality, which certainly is up a frightening amount. That has a lot to do with misonynoir, IMO.
words matter. it’s higher because there’s more death now. you abort a fetus, not an infant. infant mortality doesn’t include abortion, you have to be delivered and draw a breath before being classified as an infant.
It's still the same individual being that died.
sorry to say, but you are wrong. words matter by definition when it comes to statistical analysis.
You’re conflating two different measures.
Even if someone believes a fetus and an infant are the same individual philosophically, infant mortality is a medical and statistical term with a fixed definition. It only includes live born infants. An increase in infant mortality means more babies who were born alive are dying before age one.
Abortions have never been counted in that statistic.
What about poor disabled or other abled or high risk pregnancy? 💜 Watch , If The Walls Could Talk, a wonderful movie with Cher, Anne Heche, Sissy Spacek, Demi Moore