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[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela. It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.

[DreamLeaf 🌱🌻 🍉 @DreamLeaf5]

This is literally just legalizing torturing children btw

[Liberal Lisa in Oklahoma @lisa_liberal]

Lisa Murkowski has cast her deciding vote to block the Epstein files.
Republicans are officially the party that protects pedophiles.
Remember this bullshit during the midterms.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein Files?

[Stephen Robinson @SER1897]

I think we can’t just shrug off the fact that the sitting president didn’t attend this funeral.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

I was just informed Trump is deploying another 2,000 Guard troops to L.A.

The first 2,000? Given no food or water. Only approx. 300 are deployed — the rest are sitting, unused, in federal buildings without orders.

This isn’t about public safety. It’s about stroking a dangerous President’s ego.

This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops.

[Rep. Becca Balint @RepBeccaB]

On April 24th, armed ICE agents broke into a home occupied by a family of American citizens in Oklahoma City in the middle of the night. The family repeatedly said we are citizens, you have the wrong people. ICE broke down the door, terrorized the family, ripped apart the entire house.

It's not other people that this is happening to. It's us. Due process is not some pie in the sky idea. It's what literally holds our country together. This family is all of us. Open your eyes. Wake the hell up.

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

America is everything it accuses China of being

[JOAN OF ART @umcornell]

the fucking PRESIDENT of the USA has to pay a woman 5 million dollars for SEXUALLY ABUSING HER! fuck this country and all that it is.

[Dean Withers @itsdeaann]

America, you have failed us all.

[alex @aloomf]

the only thing america hates more than a rapist is a woman

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

100%

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

I don’t think humanity will ever mentally comprehend how deeply traumatic this is. Seeing these images on a daily basis isn’t normal. Something is very wrong with the state of modern humanity.

[so called “free thinker” @nashehive]

twitter leftists are so annoying. like yeah it’d be nice to put your morals first and not vote for any of these presidential candidates but many ppl have their livelihoods at risk if trump becomes president. JUST FCKING VOTE

[Sgt Joker @TheSGTJoker]

A convicted felon and rapist, who molested a 12yo girl, was shot in Pennsylvania. #FixedIt

[nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR]

A thing I think about every time a new secret Elon child drops is that the conservative obsession with eliminating “absentee fatherhood” is explicitly racial, and they demonstrate it by celebrating Elons breeding fetish while ignoring the fact that he’s a textbook deadbeat dad

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

The sandy hook survivors graduating high school this year is such a head fuck. Nothing has changed ever since they had to witness that senseless carnage.

[Ryan Hamilton @TheRyanHamilton]

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like.
Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out.
The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked.
I'll let you decide how you feel about that.
After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way.
The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?!
No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!".
Can you even imagine how that must feel?
The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck.
I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances.
So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved.
So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C.
They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home.
So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget.
She had to be rushed to the hospital.
By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out.
They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her.
Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD!
God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done.
If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view.
It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be.
If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.