Posted on 07/08/2022 5:42:03 AM PDT by Morgana
A Texas cancer survivor who suffered three miscarriages was banned from aborting a longed-for pregnancy in her home state on discovering the fetus was too disabled to survive.
Kailee DeSpain, 28, and her husband were forced to make a 10 hour trip to New Mexico in February after a 16 week scan revealed their son Finley had an unsurvivable condition called triploidy.
Carrying the pregnancy to full-term would have put DeSpain at risk of potentially fatal complications, but Texas's so-called heartbeat abortion bill bans almost all abortions except for those vaguely defined as 'medical emergencies.'
DeSpain was told hers did not fit that criteria, and instead set out on a lengthy journey to a neighboring state, where she was branded a murderer by pro-life protesters on arriving at the abortion clinic.
Her doctors had advised she seek termination after her 16-week ultrasound revealed her son, Finley, was not going to survive due to several serious health conditions.
The couple was devastated by the news but opted to end the pregnancy in an effort to prevent potentially life-threatening complications.
Now, DeSpain continues to share her story and fight for women's rights, alleging she will 'not know a single day of peace until I can govern my own body, and everything that goes on inside of it, in the state I once loved.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
My BS meter is way past the red zone on this one!!!
This story is hand crafted to appeal to the emotions.
Agitprop.
The child might have survived a while longer and then left this earth at the Lord’s timing.
“Forced to drive 10 hours “
I hope she did that in an EV so she was saving Mother Earf at the same time.
On a serious note....if the Left had been reasonable in their “March to Kill Every Living Thing Under The Age Of Zero”, maybe a compromise could’ve been worked out. A mother should not have to die to give birth to a child that wouldn’t survive.
Hmm...to me the fact that there are murderous ghouls is not news. See tagline!
Slicing and dicing a baby isn't the only option, induce labor and let nature take it's course. We have been programmed to believe that killing the child in utero is the only option in a medical emergency, it isn't.
I have been at one clinic protest where many protesters (sidewalk counselors) were shouting at once. They weren’t screaming “murderer” but they might as well have been. The words were indistinguishable. It must have been frightening for the women. Why would the women have approached them for help?
And some women are bound to interpret “Don’t kill your baby,” as “You are a murderer.”
“God observed her lack of love and may not give her another opportunity. She failed a basic test.”
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And yet, many women bear children after they abort one, and stay proudly pro-abortion. Some go abortion, birth, abortion, birth.
If God is testing on this, he is grading so easy that most people don’t even know they’ve been tested, not in this life.
“ And I’m an accomplice to murder because we had to pull the plug on my FIL in a VA ICU.”
Me too. I pushed the plunger when by brother was dying from cancer. An artery ruptured and he was drowning in his own blood.
Guess I’m going to Hell.
Don’t care. I’d do it again.
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No way I would trust a single doctor’s diagnosis. I know people with children who are now adults who were told to abort because there was no hope.
And I have zero trust in the media with a story like this. They lie freely even when there is far less motivation.
And it is worth pointing out that this is what federalism is all about anyway. You can move to a state that has laws you agree with and you can travel for things like drugs, prostitution, gambling, and abortion.
The rest of us shouldn’t have to put up with someone shagging a hooker on our front lawn.
Funny how you never see boo-hoo articles like this about gun ownership.
Thanks for saving me the time and posting that.
The Texas Rangers forced them at gunpoint?
Well said.
I’d also like to say that my primary concern in what I wrote was to question the fairness of the article, not to argue that the mother should have the baby. Maybe that had been a misplaced concern. But as such, I was looking at it from a legal and political viewpoint. Maybe I shouldn’t’ve been so quick to check my morality at the door. I regret speculating in such a way that would reasonably be interpreted as supporting even a single instance of abortion; I was working from a viewpoint of Texas’ interest in a politically and judicially sustainable notion of a “compelling state interest,” not meaning to presume there could be no compelling state interest to uphold life, nor that Texas should do merely what politically sustainable, nor to presume what could be sustainable.
Exactly.
Nope. NOT “forced.”
I’d like to express my most heartfelt sympathy to Mr. Biker Joe and to you and to both your families. How utterly tragical!
I shall keep you all in my prayers - if you don’t mind me :-(
I don’t mind at all.
Thanks.
L
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