kidgecat:

lilypaw:

kidgecat:

liberalsarecool:

#RepealTheEight won in Ireland.

I want all the angry pro-lifers in the notes to know that the catalyst for this vote was the death of a pregnant woman who died from sepsis after being denied an abortion for a fetus her doctors had determined wasn’t viable. If you’re mad about this I expect all of you to write me a 2,000 word essay on how exactly it’s pro-life to advocate policies which literally kill pregnant people.

As opposed to killing children? I mean this whole debate is either the mama can possibly dies or the baby dies for sure

You’re seventeen so I’m not gonna be hard on you about this, but when a fetus isn’t viable it means the fetus is going to die in the womb. There was never going to be a baby because something went wrong during development that made the fetus too sick to survive. When this happens it’s vital that the pregnant person gets an abortion before the fetus dies because once the fetus is dead the remains begin to decay and rot inside them, and that is extraordinarily dangerous. In Savita’s case, her fetus died as predicted by her doctors, and because she was forced to carry out her doomed pregnancy, she contracted sepsis from the fetal remains and died.

Savita was never going to be able to deliver that child, whether she got an abortion or not. The difference is that if she’d been allowed to abort her pregnancy, Savita would still be here with us. Her life could have been saved where her pregnancy could not.

Nearly all late-term abortions are the same story. They happen when it’s known that the baby will not be born, as a way to save the life of the person carrying the pregnancy.

It’s basically either “fetus dies later on and mother potentially dies or suffers horrible complications” or “fetus dies now and mother is OK”.