When I was 21 I was told that pregnancy could (and probably would) kill me AND that I was likely infertile.
I asked to have my tubes tied & was told “you’re too young. You may change your mind & want kids.”
🧵 on reproductive health, bodily autonomy & misogyny in medicine /1
A rock band is performing and the singer sees a kid with a banner asking to play guitar with them. The singer asks him:
- Do you really know how to play guitar?
- Yeah!
- What's your favorite band?
- Guns N' Roses
What happens next is incredible.
Can you do something for me?
This is an extended cut of the @CBSMornings interview.
Parts of this will be hard to watch, but I hope you will brave it, & further understand what this Texas Abortion Law nightmare is like.
Please watch & share🙌🏻❤️💔
https://t.co/Z4HPg2JxTw
“My fear is that stories like ours will continue to get told and not believed”: @TheRyanHamilton found his unconscious wife on the floor after being denied medical care for a miscarriage.
He tells @OmarVillafranca about the emotional saga.
Maybe I should clarify a few things:
My wife was actively bleeding & denied a D&C even after it was determined our baby had no heartbeat. I don't understand why people keep quoting current Texas law, and saying it never could/would happen.
IT HAPPENED!
Also, a D&C (dilatation and curettage) and an "Abortion" require the SAME PROCEDURE.
Not removing the fetus could have resulted in sepsis and/or death.
She was sent home on 3 separate occasions.
She was prescribed misoprostol which was administered at home, where she bled for 3 days straight, and after I discovered her unconscious in our bathroom had to be rushed to the hospital for life saving care.
Our story is TRUE.
This is NOT political propaganda.
There is no GoFundMe (we will pay our own medical bills, thank you)
THE CURRENT ABORTION LAWS IN TEXAS ARE WHY THIS HAPPENED!
IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED!
We don't wish this nightmare on anyone.
Not even the vile people who continue to attack us.
I'm going to do my best to MAKE SURE this is not the world my daughter has to grow up in.
ELIZABETHTON, TN: High school sociology students were assigned a project of looking into 40 year-old killings of several redheaded women… and cracked the case: https://t.co/4UafMcqmOW
There’s now a podcast about it: https://t.co/dLwnkYHibi
Dog Bus
In Alaska, a married couple is engaged in dog walking and supervision of them. To do this, they even purchased a bus to conveniently and safely pick up pets, like children to school. Dogs spend all day together, have fun, eat, and then they are transported to the houses
Credits: Pets Arena Pinterest
A Black woman in Mississippi reported her son missing and went 7 months with police telling her they couldn’t find him.
She sent them photos, begged for updates, and implored them to put his story on the news.
It turns out they knew where he was all along. An hour after he left his house he was struck and killed on the highway by an off duty police officer.
They hid his body in the morgue for months without ever notifying his family despite there being a prescription bottle with his name on it found at the scene.
Then they buried him in a pauper’s field with nothing but a number identifying him as corpse # “672”.
https://t.co/SM4Txljd6E
Astros fans, I have a favor to ask.
We need every Astros fan on their feet giving Altuve a standing ovation at his first at-bat.
Make every Apple Watch have an excessive noise notification.
Make ears hurt.
Please let Jose Altuve know he's the greatest Astro of all time.
🚧 Last Giveaway of the year! 🚧
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