• Kalkaline @lemmy.one
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    If you listened to the whole video they talk about not providing life savings care to the child, which is not murder. There are a ton of babies who don’t do well after birth and are not expected to survive long. This happens for a lot of different reasons. Withdraw of care, or moving to comfort care, is a well defined and common occurrence across the medical field. People die all the time and you can artificially preserve things like the heartbeat and breathing with machines, but you have to decide if that’s what is best for the patient. It’s not murder, it’s not “post term abortion” either.

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      I just find the term incredibly stupid and hilarious 😅 Republicans always says the dumbest shit.

      Think about it for a second;

      “Post birth” means you are born. Right? Once you are born, you cant be aborted anymore… it changes the whole meaning. If you are born, breathe on your own and someone kills you, its murder. Not “post-birth abortion” lmao. Abortion is the end of a pregnancy. No pregnancy, no abortion.

      Republicans can spin and twist this off as “abortion” as much as they want, they aren’t doing a good job convincing the average Joe that abortion is wrong. Which is their goal… and everybody knows abortion is a relatively mild medicine procedure that does not involve killing anybody so why still using these stupid ass term?

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        It’s a tactful way to get ignorant people to vote against their own interest. I don’t think DeSantis is dumb, I think he’s power hungry.

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        they aren’t doing a good job convincing the average Joe that abortion is wrong.

        everybody knows abortion is a relatively mild medicine procedure that does not involve killing anybody so why still using these stupid ass term?

        Listen, I used to be like you. I used to be confident that most people were smarter than shit like the idea of “post birth abortion.” You know what shattered that faith? The election in 2016. While it might be true that the majority of people aren’t that dumb, it doesn’t matter; it only takes *just enough *knuckleheads that eat up the shit like DeSantis is spreading to fuck us all.

        There are enough people that will believe “post birth abortions” are happening - just like there were enough that believed (and STILL believe!) the election was stolen - simply because DeSantis said so, to be a considerable threat to our democracy.

        The saying “never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers” is more apropos than ever these days.