Not their problem
Trump is fine with women dying rather than having emergency abortions.
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would revoke guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions for women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.
Easy for him. He’s not going to die of septicemia because the hospital refuses to meddle with his pregnancy.
That guidance was issued to hospitals in 2022, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court upended national abortion rights in the U.S. It was an effort by the Biden administration to preserve abortion access for extreme cases in which women were experiencing medical emergencies and needed an abortion to prevent organ loss or severe hemorrhaging, among other serious complications.
Serious complications that cause death.
The move prompted concerns from some doctors and abortion rights advocates that women will not get emergency abortions in states with strict bans.
“The Trump Administration would rather women die in emergency rooms than receive life-saving abortions,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. “In pulling back guidance, this administration is feeding the fear and confusion that already exists at hospitals in every state where abortion is banned. Hospitals need more guidance, not less, to stop them from turning away patients experiencing pregnancy crises.”
But that takes much of the fun out of it. These people want to see women die of pregnancy crises.
For everyone who says there is not a difference between Democrats and Republicans, I will direct them to this.
There may well be a vast difference between the people who vote for one party or the other, and it might well be that Democrats have great respect for women; but why, in that case, have their politicians never used the opportunities they’ve had when in power to give women a constitutional right to privacy, especially with regards to reproduction? Why have they always failed to uphold women’s rights if those rights inconvenience a man?
I don’t see that one side is better than the other; I see that one side is merely better at making their misogyny less obvious, and with slightly better plausible deniability.
The Democrats have a lot of flaws, but there is a big difference between them. They may not make their misogyny as obvious, as you say, but at least they have never seen fit to remove reproductive freedom. They support same sex marriage, even if their support is not as full-throated as we might like. There are several other social issues where they are definitely preferable to the Republicans. I certainly do not agree with everything they say, and even left the party briefly earlier in the century, but if it comes down to a D or an R, there have not been any Rs I would vote for in decades.
The thing is, the Democrats have an enormous tent, filled with people who have contradictory needs and/or agendas (see, for instance, women and trans). Their biggest problem is trying to appease the moderate voters, which often means throwing anyone with ideas considered ‘radical’ (like feminists) under the bus. Still, I would prefer to have them in power than their counterparts.