**I’m confounded that no one is asking about the two ABORTIONS that Wendy Davis had. Is she a liar?
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Kstarnes, there are a ton of reasons to not vote for Wendy Davis. However, this topic is a non-starter. Whether she had two or twenty is immaterial. It was her choice to do so, and it is absolutely no one else’s business whether she did.
And here’s something you don’t hear me say very often: Clothahump is absolutely right. (At least about the irrelevance of this particular objection to Davis’s candidacy.)
Explain to her that you are assuming she lied about the reasons for her abortions because (you fill in the blank since I have no clue why you think it) and you’d like her to release her medical records to prove she’s not lying.
Personally, I don’t think the removal of an ectopic pregnancy should even be considered an abortion. It’s a medically necessary procedure to save, in most eventualities, the woman’s life, and certainly her fertility. The zygote, or embryo, or blastocyst, or whatever stage the thing is in when it gets stuck before it gets to the uterus, is not going to make it, because it simply cannot develop into a baby where it is. “Abortion” means terminating a pregnancy that would otherwise progress; ectopic pregnancies will not progress-- referring to eliminating them as “abortions” is like referring to removing an infected appendix as “aborting the the appendix.”
Dandy-Walker syndrome is a kind of hydrancephaly, where certain brain structures either don’t develop, or develop, but atrophy, and the places where they should be are filled with fluid. Unlike a lot of other malformations that involve large parts of the brain being missing, DWS affects mostly the cerebellar area, and not the cerebrum, but it often also results in absence of the corpus callosum. Babies born with it also usually have limb and heart defects. Because it sometimes involves the occipital lobe too, people with it are often visually impaired to varying degrees. I met a kid with this once. He was blind, in a wheelchair because he couldn’t balance to walk, although he could crawl, but his parents used the chair in public so he wouldn’t hurt himself. He was five, but intellectually about 14 months (the parts of his brain that had been normal were damaged from hydrocephaly and seizures), and didn’t speak at all. He’s already had two heart surgeries, and took several medications daily. His life expectancy wasn’t very long.
Those both sound like pretty well-justified abortions (or, procedure, and single abortion) to me. I know there are people who would claim the deity had some reason for wanting her to have a child with this particular condition, and she thwarted his will, but not everyone believes that. Personally, I think she was obligated to consider how much having a child who needed round-the-clock care would affect the two other children she already had.
Lovely image. I’m going to note that one.
I think the APA and Chicago manuals of style also allow BABY-MURDERS.
If a man can’t get an erection due to a spinal cord injury, sperm retrieval is accomplished by electric stimulation, which means a dildo up the butt that delivers an electric charge to stimulate the prostate. It’s an expensive procedure that a lot of men probably would rather not go through if they are satisfied with adoption.
I imagine she has been asked many many questions about abortion generally, and the laws and policies related to abortion. That’s all fair when some has “made her name” via the issue. I also would bet she’s answered all those questions. I don’t see the need for anyone to ask her detailed questions about her own procedures. Do you ask your dentist how often he or she flosses when they urge you to floss daily? The abortion arguments she makes are either valid or they are not. Her personal medical history doesn’t make them more or less valid.
I’m merely speaking against those who say that she shouldn’t be asked any questions about her abortions. If she opened the can of worms it would be hypocritical for her to say the topic is off-limits.
That being said, she seems to have addressed it so I’m not interested in badgering her about it. I still think she’s a shameless political opportunist. As a Texan, I guess I’m fairly pleased she won’t win. I honestly think she’s a lightweight.
They might as well ask for her long-form birth certificate at the same time, plus her marriage license and her kids’ birth certificates, her college diploma and transcripts, and so forth, so they can reject the validity of all her vital records at once.
Or Rick Perry who rode Bush’s coattails to the governor’s mansion and switched from (D) to (R) at a convenient time?
There are precious few people running for high office in Texas who aren’t opportunists. You just happen not to like this one but still trying to justify it as something even remotely objective. That’s not happening. Nothing wrong with just plain not liking somebody, but don’t trying to pass it off as something more noble than it really is.