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Texas man kills his unborn child after spiking his girlfriend's drink with an abortion pill https://t.co/hWKoLtrRCw

This is where we at y’all. Trump got his wish. For women to be punished. Married Fort Worth, Texas couple find out wife is miscarrying at 13 weeks. Sent home with Misoprostol. Wife takes two rounds of the drug. It doesn’t work. They go back to the same hospital. Turned away. Go to another hospital requesting a D&C so that sepsis doesn’t set in. The hospital said she wasn’t SICK enough for a D&C so they got a third round of Misoprostol and were sent home. At home wife passes out unconscious, blood and bodily fluid everywhere. She’s rushed to the hospital they say “Thank God you brought her in.” Fuck Republicans vote Blue! #DemsUnited #AbortionIsHealthCare

🚨 The following is what passes as a Shinboner post (for now) from North's loss to Fremantle: ----- Was catching up on the North game late last night (San Antonio time 🎺) and kept thinking, 'well they'll goal to end the run at some point' ... 'this is when the goal comes' ... 'surely it'll come soon' ... and then it just didn't happen. So that was fun! Although there's no excuse for losing any game by 842 points, from a slightly detached viewpoint it was a case study of what happens when the best team currently in it - Freo's highest level of play in their history? - systematically takes away every option North have to defend and attack. You could see it from the early stages. First North progressively couldn't move from stoppage. Then they had fewer options after turnover, and then the corridor disappeared. Freo poked and prodded to find gaps in North's forward half defence, exploited them ruthlessly, and then North's back six/seven had, understandably, no other ways to stop incoming ball swept in on a magic carpet. This is normally the point where video appears to illustrate the point, but I'm on the other side of the world typing between sets at a gig, and I mean, the margin. It'd just be an unwanted horror movie. Anyway, North players would have looked around at some point and thought something along the lines of, 'we have nothing left in our kit to even remotely challenge them'. Maybe a little less eloquently than that, but still. Once everything you're capable of doing gets taken away like that it's very easy to feel useless and drop your head. Again, in caps this time so no one gets the wrong conclusion - IT DOESN'T EXCUSE losing by 124 instead of maybe half that. My general team level takeaway was North desperately need to have something in their skill set for damage limitation. Not a 'Plan B', or anything like that. Instead, something where there's a realisation of 'nothing is working right now, how can we shut this game down for a period/5 minutes/10 minutes to reset?' Just the most boring passage imaginable. Then as you get better as a collective, that time period becomes shorter and shorter, followed by introducing elements to go back at the opposition, ending with different gears in your game. That last part is very advanced, it also all sounds very easy written out like this, and to be honest there already should be something like a basic version of the reset passage in North's game ... but there's not. Which is a whole other discussion. But in the meantime those wildly bad quarters (2+4 v Freo, 2 v Adelaide, 4 v Geelong) to pop up recently are worrying. Losing these quarters are fine, relatively speaking. Getting historically blown off the park shouldn't be a recurring feature by now. Hopefully it's just a bug and not a mindset malaise.

AITAH for cutting my parents off after a family vacation? I (24M) lost my brother (19M) to a vehicle accident three years ago. It was DEVASTATING as you could imagine. From his death, my parents received $19k from insurance. With some of this money, my mother decided to take a cruise. This sounds nice, but my mother is a narcissist. Not self absorbed or just rude but a full blown clinical narcissist. My dad is avoidant in an extreme way. These statements describing my parents could have 24 years of history and more. I decided to maintain contact because it had not set in how much damage they caused me. Anywho… This is the trip details. 7 day cruise. My parents, my brother and sis in law, my wife, and I would be joining. The theme was basically a healing family bonding trip. It was anything but. My parents aren’t wealthy nor are my wife and I. My brother and sis in law have some wealth for their age but are not “rich”. Why does this matter? My wife and I were on a tight budget and couldn’t not afford to go on an expensive vacation or really any trip for that matter. However, mom said multiple times, in many ways, “this is an all expense paid trip”. You may see where this is going but lock in with me here. I had hope that considering my parents received a large sum and declared it was all expense paid that maybe it would be so. Just in case we decided to pinch pennies and save extra money for plan B. We agreed to go and prepared for a good time to heal and bond. My brother and I, with our wives, head to the ship and parents went separately and we all made it and arrived on time! We shared laughs and memories the first day and it really felt like this was going to bring our family together. Until the first excursion. We had to pay for excursions the day before and as we were in line to pay my mother asks if we had the money to cover. To say I was furious was an understatement. I kept my cool and said “you told us you were covering everything though”. She scoffs and states “so I guess paying for rooms, meals, and everything else just isn’t enough.” She then walks to my brother and asks “do yall have money because it looks like some people have never traveled before. Maybe I should’ve picked cheaper stuff to do” I then pull us all out of line and try to remain calm. I asked what everyone wanted to do this trip. They all gave input and the cost would come out to 3x what we saved as plan B. So instead we went to our room and crafted the save of the century. One excursion that would cover all of our desires that would be a little less than what we saved up. After a little lip from mom, we all decided it would work. We got back in line to pay and you wouldn’t believe it, but my mother waits until it’s her turn and says “can you cover the bill and I’ll just pay you back later.” In complete shock my sister in law just pays for it. Now you may be asking why neither I nor my brother caused a scene or whatever and you would have to be raised by a narcissist to understand maybe, but we were trying to keep the peace by any means. We go to dinner and discuss the craziness that just took place and she proceeds to bash me for not having enough money and calling me broke while saying my brother has enough money so it shouldn’t matter too much anyway. After push back she just leaves and we didn’t see her until the excursion. She had a BLAST. You would’ve thought nothing ever happened. We tried to reset and have fun again despite the mess and it worked until dinner. She rants about how we don’t care about our brother passing as much as she does and how this trip was to honor him but she’s doing all the work. My dad? Not a word. Ever. My brother has enough and he leaves while I sit slack jawed by what I’m seeing. As my brother leaves my mom declares that she is cutting him from the will and it will be better that way because he has money and I need all I can get. (They have no money btw). We spend the next few days ditching my parents and having fun despite them. I understand that grief can drive a person to crazy things, but I believe a line was crossed. This isn’t the end however. The icing on the cake for me was once we arrived home, I decided to visit my grandmother, my mom’s mother. She was strangely excited to hear of the trip. She poked and i reluctantly told her everything. She looked at me with horror and said “she didn’t spend a dime on this trip. I paid for it all for yall to go. I figured yall would need it”. My parents $0 on the trip. She used my grandmothers kindness as a trap to get glory and to bash us. I haven’t spoken to them since. So… AITAH for cutting them off? Also, my writing skills aren’t too great and I’m not well versed with Reddit so have mercy.

Under the Abolitionists' equal protection framework, no pro-life laws have ever been passed. Their supporters are on record opposing the Human Life Protection Act, and HB 7, which protect life in Texas today. The Human Life Protection Act forced all abortion providers to cease performing abortions or face steep penalties — up to 99 years in prison, $100,000 in civil penalties, and loss of medical license. HB 7 provides another means to hold illegal chemical abortion drug traffickers accountable. Consider what the Abolitionists' approach would mean for Texas today if they had succeeded in their opposition to our pro-life laws: every surgical or chemical abortion provider would still be operating on Texas soil. Planned Parenthood would still be performing abortions. This Houston Planned Parenthood facility would still be open for business, taking innocent unborn lives. The baby recently aborted because he had Down Syndrome — that 21-week abortion would have been legal in Texas, where it is not today. And we would have no laws to hold illegal abortion providers or abusive partners who force abortion drugs on women accountable. Illegal abortion drugs funneling into Texas from out of state, circumventing our laws are a problem. The answer is not punishing the women that the out-of-state providers prey on. The answer is federal action to shut down their pipeline, such as through enforcing the Comstock Act, or by the FDA removing the mail-order mifepristone option, in order to protect Texas babies, and respect the will of our state.

A Texas man FORCED his girlfriend to take the abortion pill, and it KILLED her baby! Jon Rueben Demeter has been indicted after authorities say he secretly gave a pregnant woman the abortion drug without her knowledge or consent, resulting in the death of their unborn baby. A grand jury indicted him on charges of abortion, a first-degree felony punishable by five years to life in prison, and injury to a child. The indictment replaces an initial charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to a search warrant, Demeter gave the woman — the mother of his other children — a bottle containing a white milky substance at his home. He told her it was an electrolyte drink that had helped the mother of his other children during pregnancy. The woman later became ill and went to the hospital, where she gave birth at 14 weeks gestation. Her baby girl did not survive. The woman told detectives she did not want to have an abortion, but Demeter did. Court records show he had previously offered to obtain abortion pills online and pay her $1,000 to kill the baby, but she refused. A search of Demeter’s home revealed a glass bowl containing white powder residue and evidence of a crushed white pill. Demeter admitted to ordering abortion pills online and giving the woman the drink, but denied that the substance contained the pills. The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office confirmed the indictment. Abortion kills babies and hurts women.